tubermagpico

Like my friend Phil put it on linked in

Is there an HDR mastering display that costs less than £20k? Not yet.

On paper the new Apple monitor looks like it might be usable for HDR film/TV work, but like the ASUS PA32U (which looked excellent in the spec sheet) I can only comment when I've pointed a probe at it a profiled it using LightSpace. The things that seem amiss from the outset are;

1.       It’s the wrong resolution; 4096 x 2160 is what’s needed, not 6k – remember how bad SD on HD looked when you split pixels across pixels?

2.       It only supports SMPTE-2084 HDR natively; the website suggests that HLG may come as a software emulation, but as it’s only a 10-bit monitor this will not be acceptable; the PQ curve skirts close to the Barton-ramp as it is, putting a 3D LUT in line to emulate HLG will cause banding, no doubt,

3.       No SDi or HDMI input – I know BMD have an external box coming but that’s a bit how-ya-doing!

4.       It has P3 primaries (which is fine) but you really need a bit more than P3 as should you put a LUT in line you will have less than P3 and that ain’t going to fly; Eizo & Sony are typ. 84% of rec.2020; would be interested to see what proportion of rec.2020 this guy does?

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