{"id":58075,"date":"2011-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/709mediaroom.com\/low-cost-color-correction-monitors\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:46:29","slug":"low-cost-color-correction-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/709mediaroom.com\/en\/low-cost-color-correction-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost color correction monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/709mediaroom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/1760wfwhitebackground260.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1168\" title=\"flanders\" src=\"http:\/\/709mediaroom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/1760wfwhitebackground260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/709mediaroom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/hp-lp2480zx-professional-lcd-display_190x170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1169\" title=\"dreamcolor\" src=\"http:\/\/709mediaroom.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/hp-lp2480zx-professional-lcd-display_190x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"251\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day giving a course in Santiago de Compostela with the teacher Rafa Roche, the conversation of reference monitors for color correction that did not cost a kidney came up. We mentioned some like the <a title=\"Flanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flandersscientific.com\/index\/Broadcast_Monitors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flander Scientific<\/a> (no distributor that I know of in Spain) or the famous <a title=\"Dreamcolor\" href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/es\/es\/sm\/WF05a\/382087-382087-64283-3884471-3884471-3648397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HP Dreamcolor<\/a> (already discontinued). <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how it was until one of the students sent me an email recommending me this comparison in <a title=\"Digital Frozen\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalfrozen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Frozen<\/a>. I already knew the page of Manuel L\u00f3pez, postproducer from the Canary Islands, thanks to other useful articles he published (in fact it was the first part of this article about reference monitors that made me fall in Digital Frozen). <\/p>\n<p>I recommend this last post as well as many others on their website, extremely useful information. Here is the link. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Digital Frozen\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalfrozen.com\/?p=589&amp;cpage=1#comment-234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low-cost reference monitors, part 2 &#8221; digitalfrozen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day giving a course in Santiago de Compostela with the teacher Rafa Roche, the conversation of reference monitors for color correction that did not cost a kidney came up. We mentioned some like the Flander Scientific (no distributor that I know of in Spain) or the famous HP Dreamcolor (already discontinued). That&#8217;s how [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6851],"tags":[6852,6853,6854,6879,7329,6880,7287,7291,8752,7769,8237,8083,6889,6891],"class_list":["post-58075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-709-media-room-en","tag-709-mediaroom-en","tag-709mediaroom-en","tag-audiovisual-en","tag-color-en","tag-color-correction-en","tag-color-grading-en","tag-colorist","tag-fcp-en","tag-formats","tag-hd-en","tag-monitor-en","tag-professional","tag-video-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Low-cost color correction monitors - 709 Media Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/709mediaroom.com\/en\/low-cost-color-correction-monitors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Low-cost color correction monitors - 709 Media Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The other day giving a course in Santiago de Compostela with the teacher Rafa Roche, the conversation of reference monitors for color correction that did not cost a kidney came up. 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