[Tig] what are we going to do (monitors)

[Bob Kertesz]

>I'd rather they come out with an LCD HD monitor that actually has  
>acceptable blacks first. There's a lot more need for that right now.

In fact, I went to a 'technology preview' at a local Sony dealer about a month
or so ago, and they had the new BVM 24" LCD ($25K) with the latest firmware
sitting next to a BVM 24" CRT monitor. 

The presenter was the Sony broadcast monitor product manager, and of course
the first question from the floor was about reproducing blacks, and so he set
up a little experiment, and here's what was very interesting:

If the room was made COMPLETELY dark, the CRT clearly had deeper blacks than
the LCD.

But if a SINGLE light was turned on anywhere in the room (it was a largish
conference room with room for about 100 people), and the light was just bright
enough so you could recognize people's faces, the glass front of the CRT
picked it up and raised the CRT blacks, and then the LCD had (significantly)
deeper blacks than the CRT. This was the case even if the light was behind the
monitors - the glass CRT gathered the light from the room and up went the
blacks.

It was kind of astonishing, to put it mildly. This is the first time I've
posted anywhere about it, because I'm still digesting what I saw.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
BlueScreen LLC
Hollywood, California
bob at bluescreen.com

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