Re: Barco vs Eizo
Re: Barco vs Eizo
- Subject: Re: Barco vs Eizo
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:56:18 -0700
In a message dated Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:34:00, Michael Fox wrote:
> To use your analogy, even Toyotas have more and more complicated ignition
> systems that need more and more complicated diagnostic computers.
Very true. At any phase of technological development, though, there will
still remain a "lower end" and a "higher end." Even with added electronic
controls, a Toyota still ranks lower than a BMW price-wise as well as
performance-wise.
It's definitely good, though, that more sophisticated features are being
incorporated into the less expensive units. Aren't today's colorimeters
markedly better than those of 7 or 8 years ago? And cheaper too? That can
only be good.
> With monitor gamuts growing wider and on-board monitor LUTs of 10-bits,
> etc., it seems that we may be at or near a time when the instruments we use
> may not be as precise or repeatable as the devices they are measuring. Are
> we already there with these newest displays? Are some devices better than
> others for certain types of displays? How do we know? As you say, where
> are "the numbers and the specifics?"
I don't know the details of these newer units, like the Eizo CG220 or the
NEC SpectraView. But Sony had a good idea with the Artisan of matching the
colorimeter that came with each unit to the monitor's phosphors.
If display manufacturers were not only producing displays of high quality,
but also pairing them up with carefully matched colorimeters, that would be
progress. To make such remarkable displays without also providing a proven
measuring device seems like a half job. It seems to me that up to now the
only one who has done a truly COMPLETE job was Sony with the Artisan.
I'm not knocking the Eizos and NECs. I'm sure they are great. But it feels
like something is still missing in this picture. Is there really, as Michael
says, a risk of the new displays' quality rapidly surpassing that of the
measuring devices?
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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