Choosing A 4k Reference Monitor

The Choices For UHD/4k Monitors Are Becoming More Plentiful

Our apologies for being a couple days late with this installment of From The Mailbag.  Team Mixing Light just wrapped up the first-ever Blackmagic Design Conference + Expo.  The event was a smashing success!  A huge thanks to all the amazing instructors that joined Robbie, Patrick & Dan and a heartfelt thank you to keynote speakers Ramy Katrib & team from Digital Film Tree, and Walter Volpatto & Joseph Slomka from Fotokem Film & Video.

Just back from the event, it’s perfect timing for another installment of From The Mailbag.  In this installment, we got the following question from Mixing Light member Anton:

‘HDR isn’t that important to me at the moment, but my clients (mainly in fashion) are starting to ask for 4k masters. I own a Red Helium camera and a Red Dragon so I’ve wanted a good 4k display for quite some time, but have been holding out for what FSI would come up with. They’ve announced a new monitor, but its nearly $45k!  I would love to hear what kind of setup you recommend.’

Like Anton, Team Mixing Light has been keenly looking at UHD/4k monitoring options.  Over the past couple years we’ve been ‘hacking’ LG OLED monitors to act as UHD client monitors, but there is much to be said about a true UHD/4k reference monitor vs. a consumer TV.

In this episode, we sit down to talk about the merits of UHD/4k monitoring and dive deep into the new offerings from FSI.

Due to the timing of the BMD conference, this MailBag was released after our Insight on the XM650U.  Be sure to check out that Insight.

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-Team Mixing Light