are broadcast monitors going to die?

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aalleexx

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this might seem like a dumb question but I have to ask, what is going to happen next year when everything goes digital, specially to interlaced broadcast monitors, are they still going to be used? what happens to the 7.5 IRE black level for broadcast?

Thanks for the insight :)
 
All that changes is that over the air broadcasts will be done digitally at a new frequency range. Unless your broadcast monitor has an analog tuner in it (and I've never heard of a broadcast monitor with a tuner in it), it won't be affected.

Cable won't be affected. Satellite won't be affected. If you already have digital tuner, that won't be affected. You will only be affected if you get your TV signal via an analog antenna or analog "rabbit ears".

Display formats are a non issue. Everything will still be NTSC 480i for SD, and 1080i/720p for HD. All that changes is how you receive your SD signal.
 
I've not bound to 7.5 blacks in many years. I like to peck at zero every now and then.
While I still sport the Sonys, I know of several houses today that havn't an NTSC monitor in the house. Most of us ignore title safe today as well. I do.
Guidlines made for broadcast before I was born havnt limited my creativity much in the last 5 years or so.
 
grinner said:
I've not bound to 7.5 blacks in many years. I like to peck at zero every now and then.
While I still sport the Sonys, I know of several houses today that havn't an NTSC monitor in the house. Most of us ignore title safe today as well. I do.
Guidlines made for broadcast before I was born havnt limited my creativity much in the last 5 years or so.
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I've been curious about the broadcast monitor issue as well. We've been doing some TV commercial work lately, and I've always been concerned about generating a :30 spot on the computer and having it look good on local TV. We've never used a broadcast monitor to check ourselves, and I always worried about not using one.

Do any of you guys have any workflow tips you'd like to share about taking your work to TV? Is a broadcast monitor just not that useful?
 
Other than living by your componant scopes, no.
If your not monitoring with proper waveform and vectorscopes, you are flying blind... and temporarily.
If you are monitoring by these, it's subjective rather you need an NTSC monitor or not at this point. Like I said, I still use mine but honestly, I'd not buy one today if I didn't have one.
 
damn it!!! I sold my ntsc monitor thinking that I wont need it next year due to all going digital, well gotta buy again :(
 
Recently I have been shooting documentary footage in the ghetto about a family of 8 who were murdered. Scary stuff! But, you wouldn't believe how many of their neighbors have Large, Widescreen Televisions. It's unbelievable, really. Terrible living conditions and BIG Tv.s are the norm in poor urban America today, apparently. I always knew NTSC televisions would go away one day, but honestly I never imagined it would have happened so quickly, right under our noses. Also, I read the other day that because of the economy right now, there is a glut of electronics on the market, especially TV's. The article went on to say the "sweet spot" for 2009 is gonna be 32" LCD's for around 300 bucks next year. Seriously, almost no-one will be using NTSC in another year. Get yourself a good, reasonable quality LCD (like the Pana 1760) and use that from now on. That's my 0.02c.
 
rfox said:
I've been curious about the broadcast monitor issue as well. We've been doing some TV commercial work lately, and I've always been concerned about generating a :30 spot on the computer and having it look good on local TV. We've never used a broadcast monitor to check ourselves, and I always worried about not using one.

Do any of you guys have any workflow tips you'd like to share about taking your work to TV? Is a broadcast monitor just not that useful?
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ABSOLUTLY its important.

LCD's dont look the way an TV looks. always check your work on a monitor thats what they are there for...
 
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