[TV Technology]

…IN THE STUDIO

Several manufacturers build professional 3D monitors for production and studio monitoring applications, including Panasonic. Jeff Blauvelt of HD Cinema in Los Angeles works on productions using Panasonic’s 3DL2550 25-inch monitors and has come to value the display’s features that speed the shooting process.  …

One of the other interesting features of the Panasonic 3DL2550 is that the monitor can display a color space that is 102 percent of the NTSC standard, exceeding the EBU/SMPTE range displayed by most LCD monitors. Even CRT monitors don’t have the color accuracy to provide this level of chroma reproduction.

The JVC GD-463D10 is a 46-inch monitor that best serves as the program display in a control room or for audience monitoring. The GD-463D10 uses Xpol circular polarization that lets the monitor display the left- and right-eye images simultaneously, which reduces flicker. This works particularly well for images with fast motion.

The GD-463D10 has two 3D video formats: line-by-line format and side-by-side. Line-by-line format scans left and right images in the even and odd lines of an interlaced video signal. In side-by-side format, left and right images each use 1/2 of the display, shown on the left and right sides of the screen.  …

HOLY GRAIL

The Holy Grail of 3D monitors is a viewing experience that doesn’t involve glasses of any kind. That’s available today on a couple of cell phones and some other consumer displays, and now Marshall Electronics has introduced the Orchid OR-70-3D, a seven-inch 3D monitor that can be viewed without glasses.

Targeted at 3D camera operators, cinematographers and content producers, the Orchid OR-70-3D is claimed to be the world’s first autostereoscopic 3D (glasses-free) seven-inch portable production monitor.  …

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