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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 9 - Issue 7 | August 2019

Picture Monitoring

TV Logic F-7H II
boasts a 3600nit display

heap. Both are Full HD and feature a
wide range of monitoring features, as
well as Tally, with the main distinction
being connectivity; the T7 is HDMI only
while the G7 features both SDI and
HDMI In/Out.
Purely in terms of 7-inch
monitors, the TV Logic F-7H II
lays claim to be the brightest on
the market at the moment with a
3600nit display. As well as a decent
variety of different shooting tools waveform, vectorscope, timecode,
and focus assist - it also lets users
flip the displayed image horizontally
or vertically for as many options in
mounting as possible.
Away from the on-camera units,
while Netflix has rowed back from its

InFocus
cont'd...

position where it specified individual
HDR monitors such as the Dolby
Pulsar, Sony BVM-X300, and Canon
DP-V2420, it still maintains fairly
exacting standards. Professional HDR
monitors are required to be Dolby
Vision certified and support P3 D65,
PQ / ST.2084, 1000 cd/m2. Indeed,
Dolby Vision is specced throughout
the Netflix deliverables as it derives
all of its Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR
streams from the single format. And,
as ever, when a single company has
an annual content budget of around
US$15bn and counting, what it says
rather quickly becomes the de facto
standard.

ASUS ProArt offer Dolby Vision

That said, it did need to slightly
democratise
the
process (there is,
for example, only
one 4000nit Dolby
Pulsar monitor in the
UK), so making Dolby
Vision available on PC
monitors such as the
ASUS ProArt series
has been a welcome
step.
After several years of outsourcing
its high-end displays to LG, Apple reentered the HDR reference market
with some style when it launched
its Pro Display XDR at this year's
WWDC. A Retina 6K display capable
of 1600nits when really pushed and a
reliably consistent 1000nits, it also
features some clever engineering
that effectively turns the back of
the entire display into a passive
heatsink.
It features 10-bit colour depth,
P3 wide colour gamut, individual
factory calibration, boats a
1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and is
eminently adjustable and flexible
when paired with its accompanying
(optional) magnetic stand. A somewhat
cheaper VESA mount is also available,

Apple Pro Display XDR

but then so is a supremely glareresistant nano-texture glass upgrade
that adds US$1000 back onto the
price.
All the consumer press outrage over
the Pro Display XDR pricing suggests
that no-one had investigated how
much a high-end reference monitor,
which is the market Apple is targeting
here, can cost.
Meanwhile, the outer edge of the
monitor specification is already being
given some headroom. HDMI 2.1 has
long carried support for 8K content
at 60fps, but the latest DisplayPort
2.0 specification, announced in July,
which is due to be productised at the
back end of next year, has sufficient
bandwidth built into it to be able to
drive 16K displays.

http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.apple.com/uk/pro-display-xdr/ http://www.tvlogic.tv/new/M_Spec.asp?sidx=102 http://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ProArt-PA32UCX/ http://www.magewell.com http://www.mvde.eu

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