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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
To: "'After Effects Mail List'" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: 4K in AE - gonna need a bigger desk
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:47:19 -0400
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Well, I got one of the cheap  ($1200) Chinese Seiki 50" UHD TVs - first unit
was bad. Little tricky to get it to work as a desktop monitor but
replacement is up and running. Let me just say, I think 4K, both as a
display and as a TV is underrated. I'm much more blown away then I expected
to be. Since much of what I work on is 4K and greater, it makes a dramatic
difference in evaluating frames and shots.

This link should be viewable for non-FB users:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=186471358172912&set=a.13547872327217
6.29929.135474616605920&type=1&theater 

This photo is clipped but also surprisingly, color and contrast are decent,
actually pretty good for a cheap LCD (10-bit panel) and there is an
accessible service menu if you have color probes and skilled calibrator. But
even a pass with a WOW disk and blue filter gives decent results. Not a
grading monitor for critical client grades but not a piece of crap either.
Cost savings seem to come from basic Chinese TV build quality, crappy audio,
bare bones menus, no feature set beyond TV, tuner and standard inputs.

stephen van vuuren
336.202.4777

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