When to Buy a Reference Monitor and Trends in Reference Display Technology for 2014

Color Talk with Tom Parish

If you fancy yourself a digital creative, video editor, special effects person, colorist, producer, or filmmaker (or maybe all of these together), then sooner or later you come to the question – When should I purchase a reference display monitor? Why should I even bother? Bram Desmet, CEO of Flanders Scientific Inc., answers these questions along with some enlightening conversation around his insights in the rapidly changing area of display technology and display calibration trends for 2014. If you have a professional emphasis to constantly improve your craft, then improving the quality of your post-production work is critical, and using a calibrated reference monitor is one of your keys to success. Even if most of what you do right now is create, edit, or color content for the web, there are compelling reasons to use a reference monitor. Sooner or later you will be touching content destined for cable, broadcast, and theatre audiences. Your confidence in the color accuracy of your work is closely tied to the reputation you’re building. I hope you find this conversation helpful. I learned a lot myself.