- Video monitor
A video monitor also called a broadcast monitor, is a device similar to a
television , used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as a mediaplayout server,IRD ,video camera ,VCR , orDVD player . It may or may not have audio monitoring capability. Unlike a television, a video monitor has no tuner and, as such, is unable to independently tune into anover-the-air broadcast. One common use of video monitors is in Television stations andoutside broadcast vehicles, wherebroadcast engineer s use them for confidence checking of signals throughout the system. Video monitors are used extensively in the security industry withClosed-circuit television cameras and recording devices.Another important reason why broadcast monitors must be used for video
compliance at television orproduction facilities is they do not perform any video enhancements and try to produce as accurate an image as possible. For quality control purposes, it is necessary for a broadcast monitor to produce (reasonably) consistent images from facility to facility, to reveal any flaws in the material, and also not to introduce any image artifacts (such asaliasing ) that is not in the source material. Broadcast monitors will try to avoidpost processing such as up-scaling,line doubling and any image enhancements such as dynamic contrast. However, display technologies with fixed pixel structures (e.g. LCD, plasma) must perform image scaling when displaying SD signals as the signal contains non-square pixels while the display has square pixelscite web|url=http://broadcast-monitors.glennchan.info/scaling-artifacts/scaling-artifacts.htm|title=Scaling artifacts and resolution|last=Chan|first=Glenn|date=2008|work= [http://broadcast-monitors.glennchan.info Broadcast Reference Monitors] |accessdate=2008-10-01] . LCDs and plasmas are also inherently progressive displays and may need to performdeinterlacing on interlaced signals.Professional video broadcast monitors also display on screen, the current video signal format, they might be receiving i.e.:
standard definition formats like576i ,480i orhigh definition formats like720p or1080p . They also have buttons totoggle common aspect ratios like (4:3 or16:9 ), andunderscan ing oroverscan ing a picture to see lines in thevertical blanking interval (VBI) of video, and check ifsubtitles in VBI were inserted properly or not. Modern broadcast grade professional monitors also havesafe area grid generators, to help positiontelevision graphic s,lower thirds , within their respective areas i.e. graphics safe,title safe oraction safe .Features
Professional Video monitors have various features that consumer monitors lack such as:
* Conforms to colorimetry standards such as the SMPTE C, Rec. 709, or EBU primaries.
* SDI inputs / outputs.
*AES/EBU Audio decoding.
*Genlock input.
* GPI interface - For receiving external triggers.
* Modular expansion cards that support SD-SDI or HD-SDI single link or dual-link HD-SDI.
*Safe area cage.
* Rack mountable.Common display types for video monitors
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Cathode ray tube
*Liquid crystal display
*Plasma display Common monitoring formats for broadcasters
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Serial Digital Interface (SDI, as SD-SDI or HD-SDI)
*Composite video
*Component video Common monitoring formats for security
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Composite video
*S-Video ee also
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Computer monitor
*Composite monitor References
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