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Pros: look great, super connectivity
The Monitors - Color to Spare
These Samsung 245T monitors are $649 a piece or more (they list for like $1000) that's more than I've ever spent on a monitor in my life, and I bought two.
WHY?
Not just because they are 1920x1200 native resolution, and I do film work so I need that full resolution available. There are plenty of 24" monitors with this resolution available for under $300.
In short, it's because I work on film projects, and I've been tired of what I do on my desktop not looking the same on the big screen - or vice versa. The problem is COLOR GAMUT. The Color Gamut is the number of colors that you can see, or the number of colors that a particular medium or device can represent.
Most LCD monitors have a color gamut that is as low as 40% of the NTSC standard, with 72% being the gamut of a "good" monitor. In fact most LCD monitors are actually 6 bits per color. YUK! On regular monitors you might even see banding and other junky artifacts. For an artist, wanting to have an accurate representation of their work it's frustrating to say the least.
These Samsung monitors 98% of the Adobe RGB gamut - you can see substantially more colors on these monitors than on "standard" monitors.
AND THESE LOOK FANTASTIC. In fact, before calibration, they are almost TOO wide. Showing a brilliance of color that is surprising. Properly calibrated, you see a depth and richness of color that is remarkable. We'll see how well this translates to film in the theater - but for now, I'm excited at the quality of these monitors.
Here's a few other notes on them - You can pivot the display 90 degrees for portrait mode, and they have a wealth of connections in back - a fully compliant HDMI port, a 4 port USB hub, audio, video and SVideo, DVI, and Component video. It allows for picture in picture, so for video editors, you can have a monitor for digitizing etc.
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