Re: off topic: lcd monitor

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

A grain of salt anyone?

Dell had a tempting promotional offer for the 30" LCD,
cutting it´s price from 1920 Euros to ~1475 Euros
(add to both the 75 Euros transportation and package).

I just checked, the promo has run out...

Instead, the smaller LCDs are in promotion now, in case
anyone would find this useful, f.e. 24", 1920x1200, with
DVI/HDCP handshake for roughly 785 Euros (plus shipping).

That´s a very good price for the current european market.

Cheers

tim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: lcd monitor


> At work I have a HP 23" LCD which works fine, I like that one better
> than the Apple 23" which I think is way to bright. At home I have two
> 21" Samsung LCD's, they feel a lot better than both the HP and the
> Apple one. I heard from someone that Samsung is the LCDs that are
> actually in the Dell monitors... I wouldnt know though.
>
> one 23" or two 21"... it's about preference I guess. I like to have
> the two 21" :)
>
> /stefan
>
>
>
> On 12/2/06, Andy Jones <andy(at)thefront.com> wrote:
> > We've got some of the 24 inch Dells at our office.  Originally, we
> > bought them for our compositors, and that's still where they're used,
> > but what Jeff said about the color having visible artifacts is totally
> > true (my personal theory is that they have the backlight cranked too
> > high).  I wouldn't say it's that much worse than other LCD's, though.
> > But I totally don't buy that LCD's are good enough to do color work on
> > these days -- especially the larger ones, even though a lot of people
> > will tell you otherwise.  Unless the color work you're doing is to see
> > what your content will look like on a LCD, specifically.  But at that
> > point, you would probably want a calibrated HD monitor.  That said, it
> > is really great to be able to play back footage in ultra-crisp 1080p,
> > which is why we keep the monitors with the compositors.  So, in summary,
> > I like the 24" screens, but I don't trust them.
> >
> > In my opinion, the ideal setup for any sort of generalist workstation is
> > a 24" widescreen monitor coupled with a CRT running at 1600x1200.  That
> > is, unless you've got money for a 30", which, by the way, I'd take over
> > 2 24" screens any day -- especially if you want to do work for film at
> > full 2K.  (I'd probably still want to pair it with a CRT, though.)
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > Joe Laffey wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wow...  two 24s would be some serious real estate.
> > >>
> > >> dyter08(at)yahoo.de wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Guten Tag Jeff Wilson,
> > >>>
> > >>> anyone on 30" here, I was thinking to buy the 30" Dell.
> > >>>
> > >>> Whats better, 2 LCDs 24" or one 30"?
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Two 24"s is great. I much prefer it to a single 30".
> > >
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