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20 Post • February 2010 www.postmagazine.com production customers," explains Wes Don- ahue, regional sales manager at Preco, TV- Logic's US distributor. "The XVM-245W was engineered from the inside out to be the most color-accurate and versatile LCD monitor in the world." The XVM-245W is designed with nu- merous high-end features. It offers full sup- port of all broadcast video standards, includ- ing 2K DCI.The unit also offers a wide range of I/O options, as well as suppor t for 3D LUTs, with adjustable gamma. There is also now support for third-party 3D LUTs. TVLogic's color calibration utility provides highly-accurate, fully-automatic color calibra- tion. The unit includes a built-in waveform and vectorscope, embedded audio metering and monitoring, 1:1 pixel mapping for HD/SD, AFD and closed captioning capabili- ties. A 3G dual-link 4:4:4 option is also avail- able via firmware. Pricing for the XVM-245W is $11,995. C I N E - TA L Cine-tal's LCD-based Cinemage lineup grew last year with the introduction of the B Series, which includes 42- and 23-inch 10-bit displays.A 24-inch 8-bit model is also available. Cine-tal (www.cine-tal.com) uses the same panels as many other manufacturers, but improves on performance through its Intelligent Display Ser ver (IDS) technology, making them well suited for critical monitor- ing applications. IDS provides image process- ing, signal routing, frame stores, color manip- ulation (3D LUTs), display calibration and test & measurement, all in a network appli- ance configuration. The company is also continuing to de- velop its CineSpace product line. CineSpace is a color management tool that the com- pany acquired from Rising Sun Research about two years ago. The company is com- bining its own core technology with that from Rising Sun Research and merging it within the CineSpace line. According to Cine-tal's president, Rob Carroll, Cinespace works in several ways. The first way is with workstations using computer monitors. Another way is with hardware that has direct suppor t from it, including Cine-tal's Cinemage and DAVIO product lines. And the third ca- pacity is on the application level, where it suppor ts applications that have any type of LUT processing. "If you want to have calibration pro- cessing built into your application, we output almost any type of file format that most of the applications accept," says Carroll. This includes Apple Color, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid and LUTher. Ulti- mately, a studio would use CineSpace and DAVIO to calibrate its plasmas or projec- tors facility-wide, or to have the monitors emulate the look of a determined film stock. Cine-tal recently introduced a service in which the company creates a profile of a film stock and gives it to the customer to use along with software to emulate that stock on a computer or video monitor. CineSpace can also calibrate monitors to emulate standards such as REC709 and DCI. "A lot of people are using DAVIO and CineSpace as a combination to get plasma systems under control because they are kind of way out there on the gamut side of things," says Carroll. "Having a good black level re- sponse is one of the key items to differentiate anything on the pro- fessional side," he adds. "The pro market is looking for a good con- trast ratio that is closest to what the standard used to be, which was the BVM series CRT. That's one of the reasons we see plas- mas getting so much attention, par ticularly in LA and New York, because it's an emissive device — it's actually emitting light — and the fact that it's phospher-based. It makes the eye feel like they're see- ing a ver y similar thing that we saw when we looked at a tube." N E C This month, NEC (www.necdisplay.com) is introducing a line of monitors that are de- signed for color critical applications.The new PA Series is an evolution of the company's current MultiSync 90 Series, and will eventu- ally replace it as part of its evolution According to NEC's Ar t Marshall, who serves as product manager for professional and medical displays, the 90 Series includes 20-, 21-, 24-, 26-, and 30-inch models. "The 30-inch model has a wide color gamut. It's a really, really nice display and has been well reviewed across the industry." NEC also offers a "SpectraView" version for its 90 Series models. "We take the 90 Series displays and add in color calibration software and a color calibration tool: a col- orimeter. We are planning SpectraView ver- sions of the PA Series as well. They will be designed specifically for people who have color critical applications." The PA Series is geared towards color critical applications and features better color gamuts and the ability to display more colors, as well as features that simplify workflow. "There are features in the technology itself," Marshall explains, "and the stand is actually one of the areas that we are making a major change in. I'm excited with what we've done with the industrial design as well." The PA Series will include 24-, 27-, and 30- inch models, along with SpectraView ver- sions. While pricing had yet to be announced at press time, models will cost slightly more than the existing 90 Series. (The high-end MultiSync LCDW3090-BK-SV with Spec- traView is currently $2,449.) NEC also offers the P Series, which in- cludes one model, the P221W, a 22-inch widescreen display that Marshall calls "entr y level professional." It has the ability to do color calibration in the monitor, and there is also a SpectraView version avail- able. Pricing is $459. J V C This month, JVC (www.pro.jvc.com) will begin shipping a new series of broadcast monitors designed for critical viewing, studio and mobile applications. The new line-up in- TV Logic's XVM-245W is a 24- inch, 10-bit LED backlit LCD display that meets the EBU Grade 1 standard for critical monitoring. Houston's Ikan (www.ikancorp.com) has released a new se- ries of HD-SDI monitors. The VX9 is the first model in the series and supports HD-SDI (which also transcodes to com- ponent out), HDMI, HD/SD component, composite and S-Video. Initial power options in- clude compatibility with Sony's L and BP-U se- ries, Canon and Pana- sonic DV batteries, as well as Gold (or AB) and V Mount pro batteries. The VX9 is priced at $1,149 and has a reso- lution of 1024x600, with blue gun, overscan, under scan, pixel to pixel, and freeze com- parison for split-picture comparison. Cine-Tal's 42-inch Cineimage B Series monitor.