HD video sharpness on computer flant panel?

I have the original 22" lcd flat panel Cinema Display by Apple. Is my HD footage going to not look remotely sharp on that monitor compared to a plasma HD tv?

The Apple display is 1920 x 1200 isn't it? That means pixel-for-pixel display of 1080i footage which should make it about as sharp as you can get. Most of the "HD-ready" TVs I've seen in the shops here (Thailand) are 1366px wide which would imply some re-sampling.

Interesting topic Dave and Nick.

Those latest big Mac screens are wonderful.

We are looking at a big screen display ourselves. High Defintion Ready TV's as the adds say are not true high defintion. Most do 1280/720 but true HD needs 1920-1080.

True big HD Plasmas are $$$$.

True big HD LCD's are $$$.

DLP TV's look good but the globe wears out.

HD projectors are another option but the $500 globes only go for like 3000 hours.

The Epson TW600 Projector looks like a good one.

We are leaning to a projector though for a huge wall and big impact, but still abit undecided, any thoughts.

I don't own a tv or a wall....

Just this lonely little screen in my aquarium.... sniff....

For editing and viewing of my own footage I'm probably going to buy something like the HP 24 inch display, outputting from Vegas as a "secondary Windows display" over DVI.

Looks like the latest Apple displays are similar apart from the supported OS.

Dell has more analogue inputs and a better choice but not available in Thailand

If I do a dive show then I reckon a projector would be a better bet than an LCD/plasma. It depends how big a flat panel you can afford to rent I guess.

HDV folk... what are you monitoring on at the moment for editing and colour correction?

Nick

the NEC HT1100 does 1920 x 1080 ...

Mike.

If you got one of THESES then you could use it for both, TV and Wall

Yeh Nick that would be great to edit with. I just use twin 17 inch LCD's and have match them close to the colour I see on the camera's LCD. Need to really get a card to ouput to a high res TV though.

How do you lay out your NLE Wags? Do you have a Premiere Pro preview window filling up one of your 2 displays? Is it OK for judging focus?

Wondering if I could put off the 1920 x 1200 display purchase until later and stick with my 2 x 17" displays for now.

Twin 17 inch LCD's at 1280/1024 look great.

Go here for a look. Im using a old matrox RT2000 twin output graphic card to drive them. Works a treat.

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