This TINY TV Costs $20,000



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The XMP550 QD OLED mastering monitor from Flanders Scientific is here and it’s incredible, but while twenty grand is less than the competition, it’s still a LOT of money. Do studios really need them?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High
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Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0  https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:33 The XMP550
3:50 Test Footage
8:06 Super Mario Bros
9:47 1917
11:19 Mad Max and LotR
12:40 Clipping
13:33 Banding
14:20 Build and Features
16:35 Other Options
19:30 Test Results
20:44 Conclusion
21:58 Outro

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28 thoughts on “This TINY TV Costs $20,000”

  1. This just finally made me realize something I've always disagreed with. All my friends at work say Samsung makes terrible TV's, I always just thought they couldn't be that bad. I was wrong, they 100% are that bad.

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  2. @LinusTechTips Apparently the latest S95B firmware has reduced the max brightness significantly. There are ways to restore it through secret menus but quite a lot of complaints out there at Samsungs behaviour. Unsure their reasoning but it appears to affect the picture quite a bit.

    As a fellow BC S95B owner to Brandon, I’d love it if that could be tested by the labs team to either validate or dismiss the claims.

    One of the reasons I chose the S95B over the C2 was your original video where the impressions seem vastly different to the LG today.

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  3. The LG OLED is a pretty standard “client” monitor alongside a colorist’s Flanders (or equivalent) just for anyone curious. Of course, proper pipeline, and paying a tech to professionally calibrate it still apply.

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  4. Have you tried to calibrate LG and Samsung displays?
    I mean – I have an LG, I had to calibrate the screen to get a good picture. This means going into theater custom mode as a profile and making 200 entries – so three settings for each color and spectrum, etc…
    Have you calibrated your test screens?

    Edith:
    Btw… I always turn off those extremely cringe Picture-wors-bbetter (in German "verschlimmbesserer") postprocessing crap.

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  5. Nah, I'll save $19,500 and get a Samsung SmartTV. Plus, I can adjust RGB and pick a picture mode to get kinda close. This is more like the wealthy, color grading/cinematography enthusiast market.

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  6. This brought back memories of reviewing video output on a studio monitor. It was an old Sony CRT model, and only a grade 2 device, but the quality that it picked up and showed was tremendous. It was well worth it compared to any other display we tried by comparison, and that's before all the useful features such as a proper visual overscan display, colour masking and anything else available was used.

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