28" 1080p HDMI monitor... 400 bucks?

[Tom Lowe]

Sheesh. I was at Costco today and ran across this thing...



http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...rodid=11236988

I paid like 500 or 600 for my Dell 24", and it doesn't even have HDMI.

I was thinking that this Hanns G 28" might be a great second monitor for editing, and possibly a great field monitor.

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Thanks Tom,
You speak my language (low $$$).

Sometimes I blush with so many pros here talking about $2k monitors and that stuff.

:)

Anyway, does it have 1:1?
Because LCDs running on non-native res looks kinda odd.

And does it scale or letterbox when feeded 1080p? My guess it's it just let black bars, to be advertised as 1080p, otherwise the image would be funny slightly stretched.

[Jim Brennan]

That looks like a great deal. THe contrast ratio is a little lower than some of the 720P HDTVs I've been looking at.

Hmmmm, res vs. contrast ratio....what to do?

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

If you're using it for R1 1080p is not a big deal, am I right?

So go for better contrast.

[Jim Brennan]

It is for the Red One. I usually edit 1080P ProRes.

[Kwan Khan]

Fellas Check following links for cheapest 1080p,
42" $599
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=LT-4202&cat=TVS
42" $699
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...Z6TM-R&cat=TVS

[Tom Lowe]

At what point do these things go from being a monitor, to a TV? The ones Kwan linked to, for example, have speakers and look more like TVs. But is there really any difference?

That 28" Hanns G I saw at Costco was hooked to a PC, and it definitely seemed very usable for that purpose.

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Thanks Tom and Kwan.

Great links here.

Low-budget dreamers of the world, unite!

[Thom Steinhoff]

Onboard Speakers would be nice.

Red, I believe, pumps audio through the HDMI so it would be great for playback.

[Steven M. Bailey]

a lot of the lower price lcd tv's have dvi and hdmi inputs making them great for pc use.

The problem you run into is color accuracy and contrast ratio. Dynamic contrast is a scam, and sometimes they won't tell you if the contrast is dynamic or not. I think they pull their numbers out of a hat.

Pioneer's kuro is one of the leading developers of panels with incredible real contrast, but some times you get what you pay for.