Lenovo Releases 30-inch Professional AH-IPS Display
Lenovo announced the release of its ThinkVision LT3053p professional monitor.
Lenovo has released a 30" monitor that is aimed at the business market and professionals: the ThinkVision LT3053p.
The Thinkvision LT3053p will pack an AH-IPS panel, which will deliver much better colors and viewing angles as compared to typical TN panels. The viewing angles are as such 178 degrees in all directions, and the panel should cover 99 percent of the Adobe RGB spectrum. The screen also has a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels, giving it an aspect ratio of 16:10. The contrast ratio is 1,000:1 static, 3,000,000:1 dynamic, and the brightness will go as high as 300 cd/m2.
Display inputs include HDMI, DVI-D, VGA and DisplayPort. The monitor also packs an integrated USB hub, which can drive up to five USB devices.
Included with the screen is a monitor hood which will reduce light reflection and improve perceived color consistency.
The Lenovo ThinkVision LT3053p will be available by the end of this month, and Lenovo will part with one and make you its owner for $1,600.
Does it automatically calibrate colours to compensate for room variances? No?
Then why does it cost so much again?
The quality of the display itself is impressive, but not $1600 impressive.
Bring on automated colour calibration and built-in sensors and maybe I'll meet them somewhere between $1500-$1700.
I'm really confused by your first question. This monitor is LED backlit. Graphic designers and video editors at my job use hoods, though they tend to make their own with cardboard.
He's talking about . Our designers turn all the lights off and shut the blinds.
http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-kn55f9500-real-oled/4505-6482_7-35561989.html
I am 97% sure the hood will be removable. It is appeasing the professional by including it.
For that price, they need to include something to calibrate the display, along with a few light stands and lights for a proper color temperature lighting for the work environment.
Word. Then you can make a cardboard hood for your 4K!
I work in the LCD industry. That's not how this works. Viewing angles don't define an instant cutoff point at which monitors suddenly degrade in quality. Rather they define a point at which the display's performance has dropped below acceptable parameters (for example, a point at which the contrast ratio is no longer more than 20:1). That's a shockingly low number, right? The datasheet will define what these parameters are, but of course you end customers don't get to see those usually.
If you have a 175+ degree display, try it. Try looking at it from that angle and telling me it looks even remotely like it does head-on. That number means nothing to you as a consumer. Just another number that sounds good, like dynamic contrast ratios.
So we see the big performance difference at even angles within the quoted viewing angle range. This becomes a problem if the display is large, because it is so large that you can actually see a difference in performance across the surface of the monitor simply because the viewing angle of the edges of the monitor with respect to your eyes are so much different to the portion of the monitor directly in front of you.
To prevent this, you need wide viewing angle panels, so the perceived performance doesn't drop between the middle and edges in normal use... But as we discussed, that results in ridiculous numbers because now the display reaches that threshold at a very wide angle. But that 178 degree number still doesn't actually mean a lot. So you end up with displays quoting wild 175+ angles because someone in marketing thought it sounded good, when in actuality at that angle the performance is terrible for real use and the display probably deteriorates visibly at 150 degrees or less.