Re: [FCP-L] Broadcast Monitor--Flanders and JVC

On Dec 2, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Nigel Ray Williamson wrote:

> What's the best bang for your buck HD/SD switchable
> broadcast monitor capable of 1080 on the market at the moment?

I've used the second generation JVC 24" Verité series monitor, and was
happy with it both as an SD composite, SD-SDI and HD-SDI monitor and
for extending my Mac's desktop from both MacPro and MacBook Pro. List
was around $4K when purchased in Nov. 2008.

It was stolen, and after some research, I replaced it this August with
the Flanders Scientific FSI 2450W, which is around $5K. They've since
added a new LED backlight unit with other features for around $9K

My interest in these monitors was to ensure that what I edited or
color corrected was proper and to ensure that what's become my main
business—film transfer equipment—looked good during demos. I needed SD-
SDI for that, and these monitors fit the bill. Much lighter and space
efficient than a BVM/PVM with SD-SDI, too.

Walter Biscardi in Atlanta raved about them on Creative Cow before
NAB, and has just compared the florescent backlit 2450's he bought
earlier with the new LED backlit 2470W:
http://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi/flanders-scientific

The Flanders 2450W has some features not available on the (now third
generation) JVC:
A vectorscope and RGB Parade in addition to waveform monitor. It can
be calibrated with a Flanders probe, and firmware be upgraded by using
a supplied USB to RJ-45 cable and downloads.

I've found all three scopes useful in demoing my film transfer gear,
and I think folks doing color correction would appreciate the Parade
display. The scope trio enables checking levels/chroma without having
to have an HD or SD-SDI capable scope on hand, which can be a plus for
budget-limited situations.

The Flanders has a number of preset buttons on the bottom that you can
use to call up functions or specific custom settings.

I would recommend calibration (and Flanders rents the tool). On my
2450W, bright red appears to fluoresce, particularly if looking at my
desktop or comparing what I see on my Apple 23" Cinema Display.

Compared to the Apple CD, the JVC and the Flanders I've had also seem
to exhibit—can't recall the word just now—but lack of smoothness on
gradients: One sees steps.

Otherwise, I've been otherwise happy with both, and like the
flexibility.

And the Flanders folks (the Desmet family... Dan, Bram and his brother
and others at the Atlanta office) were a pleasure to deal with, and
very helpful in answering questions. Dan's a long-time engineer, used
to work for Barco, set up the TVOne folks and then developed the
Flanders line for his family company.

Dan also happened to be making a trip to Burbank where I needed to
have the monitor delivered before a demo week. They shipped to the
hotel and Dan came by and walked me through the functions and menus.

Hope this is of some help.

Ted

Ted Langdell
flashscan8.us
209 East 12th Street
Marysville, CA 95901
Main: (530) 741-1212
Cell: (530) 301-2931

ted@flashscan8.us

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