Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:07 am
Sorry, but I dare to contradict.
We did some extensive testing recently with a Klein K-10 probe. The Eizo Color Edge CG318 out of the box was leaving any other monitor in the dust (including a much more expensive Panasonic BT-4LH310E). My colleague, who has tested more monitors than I will ever see in my life was commenting "I've never seen such precise grayscales in my time before doing any calibration." (Setting up grading environments is his job)
But then some UDH-TVs from LG and Samsung were not that bad either. That is, IF you go into the menus and set everything correctly, including interpretation of the incoming signal (like full swing or studio swing) and switching off all the so-called "enhancements". Most of these come from the factory set to some kind of "demo-mode", so it's easy for uneducated shop assistants to make them shine in the display area.
One example: a Samsung UHD TV, 48 Zoll, Series 7, UE48JU7080 looked like crap out of the box, too contrasty, too saturated, too everything… After digging through the menus we were able to set it to a decent color space, you could even switch to studio range or full swing and 444 or 422. Without further calibration, it had a max delta-E of 3.64 (only in dark areas) and that's quite acceptable (the Panny broadcast monitor was worse!). Of course this is only one example, these models change faster than you can test them, but colleagues at prad.de found quite few recent models from both LG and Samsung to perform acceptably well with the right settings. Sure, these are still glossy and large and have no SDI inputs, but they are cheap.
In our review, the Samsung UHD-TV was better than any 4K computer monitor from Dell, HP or NEC we had available for testing.
No, an iGPU is not enough, and you can't use HEVC 10 bit 4:2:2 in the free version.
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