CRT monitor, affordable
Friday, September 01st, 2006 | Author: Martin

I been looking at a bigger monitor to complete our editing suite. So far we´ve been using a 9″ CRT from JVC, which doubles as location monitor. While it gives excellent colours, it is rather small, and does not have the full resolution.

So I did some research, and came up with the JVC TM-H150CG. For good prices in the US, there is of course B&H Photo at 499 USD, and Provantage at 433 USD. Trouble as always when shopping from Europe is the shipping costs. Including those, the monitor would run at 717 USD and 630 USD respectively.

So there comes a bit more surfing, and there I find a friendly french site, PBS Video which have it at 420 EUR (or 540 USD), but shipping is much cheaper, totalling 612 USD. With the added benefit of getting the right plug.

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3 Responses

  1. 1
    Raoul 
    Monday, 4. September 2006

    I’m a newbie when it comes to professional video editing, but why are these CRT monitors so expensive? What makes them so special? Because when it comes to CRT computer monitors, they can’t even give them away anymore, everyone wants LCDs.

  2. 2
    Martin 
    Tuesday, 5. September 2006

    Hi Roul,
    These are specialized CRT monitors, which are manufactured to give a reliable, accurate output. CRT monitors in general have a better colour rendition than LCD have. Also, the technology of they show pictures is different from each other.
    Basically it comes down to this: if you want to be sure that what you see is correct, you do need a calibrated broadcast CRT monitor. LCD have many advantages, but they are not reliable for colour grading.
    Here is one of the many articles explaining the need for CRT. And a look at this comprehensive (written by a Dr.) comparison chart should erase the last doubts.

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    visualnary.com » The joys of a good tool (via Pingback)
    Tuesday, 5. September 2006

    [...] In the future I want to upgrade our 3rd monitor – the broadcast CRT. For now it is a JVC 9″, which also doubles as field monitor. This one gets its signal from a Sony DSR-11, which we bought late last year. I also added a Behringer tactile mixing console, which looks magical when in use, if a little bit noisy. For input we use a customized FCP keyboard (which has been doing its job since I bought FCP 1.25), a contour jog shuttle and an Apple 3 button mouse (boy, was I happy the day I could remove the MS 3 button mouse – this meant that finally our office was PC free). For audio monitoring we are using some fancy-ish computer speakers, but they will be upgraded in the not too far future. For critical sound-work, headphones are used (also for reasons of ambient noise from the street; did I mention that our office is only 3 minutes from the beach?). [...]

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