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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 7 | August 2018

InFocus

Monitoring the Picture
There is no respite in the upwards rise in vision standards as 4K
and HDR drive the bar ever higher. Contributing Editor Andy Stout
reports on the latest developments...

O

ne of the consequences of the rise
in OTT and the pivot towards the
likes of Amazon and Netflix has been
the increased role the SVOD companies
are starting to play in setting base
line standards for productions. We've
been here before, of course; many
will remember the role that Discovery
played in setting the standards for HD
during its own introduction phase, and
the rule seems to be that whoever is
commissioning the most content gets
to specify what it wants. And with
its billions of dollars and hundreds
of commissions, Netflix in particular
pretty much gets to call what shots it
wants.
So, when it says that any of its Netflix
Originals have to be certified by Dolby
for Dolby Vision HDR grading and
>1000 cd/m2, a lot of people take a lot
of notice and this effectively becomes
the new benchmark. And it does so to
the extent that manufacturers like to
draw attention to the fact that their
monitor has made the list, as Canon
did with its 24-inch DP-V2420, 4K HDR
reference monitor a few months back.

The Netflix approved
Canon DP-V2420

price. The company also announced
the ColorEdge PROMINENCE CG3145
to some fairly rave notices last year,
claiming it to be the world's first LCD
monitor to achieve a typical contrast
ratio of 1,000,000:1 for displaying

The BenQ SW271 a decent option
in the 4K HDR
budgetprice range

true blacks. Meanwhile, further down
the budgetary scale, monitors like
the BenQ Pro SW271 27-inch IPS LCD
Monitor are proving a popular choice.
Indeed, there is a growing movement
to use mid-range and up consumer
displays (and sometimes even
televisions) for colour grading in
particular nowadays, many people
rationalising that they can often
have a greater coverage of the
DCI-P3 spectrum. LG's latest 32inch UHD 4K monitor announced
at CES, the 32UK950, can display
98% of DCI-P3 and comes in at
an impressive US$1300. It will be
available in October.
On Camera
Over in the other main area of
the picture monitoring market, oncamera, the biggest news so far
this year has been less about the

Also individually name checked
by Netflix are the Sony BVM-X300
(30-inch, 4K) and the Dolby
Pulsar (42-inch, HD), so it's
a pretty elite list, with the
Canon providing the entry
level spec at around the
US$18k price point.
Other monitors are, of
course, available, and not
everyone is producing Netflix
Originals. Eizo's 31.1-inch
DCI-4K CG319X is used by
the likes of WETA Digital and LG's impressive 32UK950
Studio Ghibli and comes in at covers 98% of DCI-P3
a substantially more budget-friendly

monitoring capabilities and more
about the recording ones of the all-inone units. Atomos' announcement that
it had been working with Apple on the
release of the new ProRes RAW format
- essentially a much more manageable
and editable flavour of RAW - was one
of the major surprises of NAB.
The main difficulty was that, of
The new SmallHD Focus OLED - a very
capable unit at a competitive price
the eight cameras that could record
in the format at release, only one, outputs the format over HDMI as yet.
and that was the DJI Zenmuse X1
It's been a quiet time for Convergent
could do so internally, so external Design of late, with only a firmware
recorders were essential. As launch update to its Odyssey 7, 7Q, 7Q+ and
partner in the format, Atomos has a Apollo monitor/recorders allowing
period of exclusivity in that field, so the use of the Samsung 860 EVO 1TB,
first made it available via a firmware Samsung 860 PRO 1TB and Samsung
upgrade for its Sumo 19-inch recorder/ 860 PRO 512GB SSD drives. It might
monitor and on the Shogun Inferno. not sound like much but, for a long
Older units weren't eligible for the time, Convergent only supported its
upgrade mainly because they lack the own proprietary SSD drives as well
processing power to deal with the new as a couple of Samsung 850 Pro
format.
SSDs. The 850s are being phased
Elsewhere, Atomos
out to make way for the 860s and
has also been
Convergent doesn't make its own SSDs
working hard to
anymore, so this basically keeps them
make some of
in the game.
its bigger on
In contrast, SmallHD has
camera
units
had a torrid time of it
a bit more
recently, with a fire in
portable, and
the complex where
the
release
its North Carolina
of the Ninja V
headquarters
are
earlier this year
based back in April
did exactly that:
resulting in significant
The latest entry
folding some of in the Atomos line-up,
smoke
damage
its
higher-end the ProRes RAW supporting Ninja V
throughout its facility
features such as HDR and HFR more and the loss of what CEO, Wes Philips,
commonly seen in the likes of the has referred to as 'millions' in lost
Shogun Inferno into a 5-inch form inventory. Nevertheless the company
factor. Weighing only 320 grammes, it is back up again and shipping once
is ideal for smaller cameras and even more, and living up to its name with
DSLP shooting. The 1000nit Full HD products such as the Focus OLED
display is capable of running 5-inch, 1080p camera top monitor.
for an hour on a standard 2600 Featuring a touchscreen interface,
mAh battery, and recording 350nits brightness and a colour
in up to 4K60p, while the gamut that provides 105% NTSC, it
company also made sure it was also runs the company's OS3 software
virtually silent in operation suite, thus providing a very useful
and thus a slightly more range of tools including Waveform,
useful audio recorder than the Vectorscope, False Colour and Focus
Inferno with its reputation for Assist. Not bad at all for a unit which
noise.
starts at a shade under US$700.
And yes, it can also support
The company, of course, made its
ProRes RAW, with the slight name at the slightly brighter end of
wrinkle that the Ninja V is an HDMI the scale, and has been expanding it
monitor and there is no camera that into new territory with products


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