Apple today unveiled a new family of widescreen flat panel displays featuring the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display, a professional-quality, wide-format active-matrix LCD with 2560-by-1600 pixel resolution
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Gee wizz…. with the wonders of modern exchange rates, those babies cost a small fortune in Australia. A pity the prices haven’t dropped.
birdseed, yes $7,048 with the required video card. A lot of money. Think I’d much rather spend it on something else.
Gives new meaning to “mine’s bigger than yours.”
Isn’t $A 6,999 what the 22-inch Cinema Screen cost in Oz when it was first released [no ‘special’ card req’d for that]? Late adopters pay the same for more or less for the same.
I see there’s still no height adjustment then. I would also have liked to see individual RGB colour adjustment controls.
DavidQ wrote:
> I see there’s still no height adjustment then.
Just attach the display to a height-adjustable VESA-standard mount then…
> I would also have liked to see individual RGB colour adjustment controls.
These LCD panels use a white — i.e. balanced RGB — cold cathode tube backlight system, instead e.g. of three independently-adjustable RGB LED-based backlights.
To maintain overall colour consistency, adjustments are best done in the digital domain on the Mac itself, using e.g. colour management software, device profiles and a calibration probe.
Thanks Sal,
I already have a 20″ cinema display and I use a Calibration device to create a profile as you suggest. But sometimes I find that it would still be useful to ‘tweak’ the settings after calibration becuase the image on screen still doesn’t quite match the printed sample supplied with the calibrator. I know I’m splitting hairs a little here as you can probably never achieve a perfect match between print and screen, but why do so many other manufacturers include this capability?
Pre-empting trolls.
In case they start guffawing and ignorantly claiming that the new 30″ requires 2 DVI ports to run. Here’s the correct info.: the new 30 inch display requires a dual-link DVI port which to date is supplied by the new nVidia 6800 card, In turn this card has 2 double-link ports thus allowing a one to use 2 displays. Regular cards have single-link DVI ports and these don’t have signal to provide the 30 inch display all that it needs.
DavidQ,
Looking for the perfect LCD monitor for colormatching prints. Look no further, http://www.eizo.com/press/releases/pdf/pr_WUXGA_drupa.pdf
It displays every last color of the Adobe 1998 color space. That’s within 0.04% of every color an Epson Ultrachrome printer can print.