GEAR GROUP | MON I TORS
Samsung QLED C49HG90
Marshall V-LCD173HR
Verdict The SmallHD 1703-P3X is its newest 17in monitor and comes equipped with a wide colour gamut display that is bright enough to see outdoors. any LUT workflow through SmallHD’s ColorFlow 3D LUT Engine, which enables 3D LUT support. SmallHD 1703-P3X DUE TO THE SUCCESS OF ITS daylight viewable monitors, SmallHD released the 1703-P3X: a near-OLED bright, fully featured 17in reference grade monitor. The company claims it’s double the brightness of other 17in reference monitors, at home in full sunlight, and covers 100% of the DCI-P3 and Rec. 709 colour spaces. The 1703-P3X features a 1400:1 contrast ratio, a 178° viewing angle, and SmallHD’s Pagebuilder OS toolset. Designed to serve the colour display requirements of on-set and post- production colour grading professionals, the 1703-P3X comes pre-calibrated for DCI-P3 and Rec. 709 for broadcast use and cinema mastering. Covering 100% DCI-P3 with a Delta E average of <0.5, it offers installation of the user’s 3D LUT calibration with advanced colour management solutions like Light Illusion’s, LightSpace CMS or SpectraCal’s CalMAN. The 1703-P3X features one HDMI and two SDI inputs, plus one HDMI and two SDI outputs. The fast and intuitive operating system allows ganging of on-screen tools like HD waveform, vectorscope, false colour, focus peaking and two zebra bars simultaneously. Its Dual View function allows users to monitor two input sources simultaneously with side-by-side viewing. The monitor’s bright display supports
Verdict The C49HG90 is designed to be a fast-reacting display that fills the user’s peripheral vision, while not overly stressing your graphics card. black image, viewed deliberately off-axis, reveals that there are probably eight large rectangular zones on the backlight, with output approaching 600 NITs peak with 250-300 on average. Between these two factors, the C49HG90 won’t provide a premium HDR experience, although it might encourage more games to implement HDR. MOST OF THE WORLD’S MONITORS are either 16:9 (the same ratio as HDTV) or around 21:9 – the shape of the classic Cinemascope screen. Samsung’s 49in C49HG90 monitor is more ambitious: it’s three-and-a-half-times wider than it is high, with a native resolution of 3840x1080. As well as 144Hz frame rates, there’s backlight strobing. This switches off the LEDs behind the LCD panel when it’s changing state from frame to frame. As a result, the tiny moment of blur is invisible and there’s no motion smearing. The effect can be made visible by waving a hand in front of a bright area, but at such high frame rates there’s no sense of flicker in the image itself. Colour is good for something that isn’t a reference monitor. In standard sRGB mode, errors are generally under five Delta E (under two is ideal), with one error of 6.8 in the yellows. It drifts slightly blue in the highlights, and greens and reds are more saturated than blues, but it’s within a correctable range. Rolling the mouse cursor over a
Verdict Many applications are suited for this monitor, including Broadcast, live streaming, production, cinema, film, control rooms, and field monitoring. for the price and its versatile mounting options enable it to fit in any kind of production room. It is also Rec. 709 compliant and its 6RU frame comes with rack ears for rack mounting, as well as an optional VESA mount for desktop use. THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE well-known range of Marshall Electronics broadcast and production monitors is the Marshall V-LCD173HR: a 17.3in, crystal- clear, native resolution (1920x1080) monitor, which offers HDMI/HD-SDI conversion capability. The V-LCD173HR is approximately 8.75 lbs and comes with a range of professional adjustment settings, HDMI and HD-SDI inputs and outputs, a built-in histogram, peaking, false colour, exposure and adjustable safety markers, among others. The V-LCD173HR also monitors up to two audio channels, making it an ideal all-in-one solution for on-set or on-location monitoring. Users have confidence knowing that video images will come out looking exactly as intended. Additional features of the V-LCD173HR include LED Tally lights, image flip ability and a headphone jack for monitoring two channels of audio. The V-LCD173HR is a powerhouse production monitor that provides accurate analytics on video image for precise application in broadcast, live stream, film, control rooms, field monitors and cinema production. The V-LCD173HR offers good value
SIZE
49 INCHES 3840x1080
SIZE
17.3 INCHES 1920x1080
SIZE
17 INCHES 900 CD/M 2
PIXEL PEEPING
PIXEL PEEPING
PEAK BRIGHTNESS
OTHER
QLED NOT OLED
OTHER
REC.709 COMPLIANT
OTHER
HDR PREVIEW
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