YouTuber Compares Apple Pro Display XDR to $43K Sony Reference Monitor, Says It's a 'No Go' for Professional Colorists

[jwalesh96]

So I actually work in Post and this is something I bring up all the time to our company. Grading on these high end displays (we have the 43K Sony) the consumer never sees what they see which is exactly your point. WYSI'NOT'WYG. This is the huge issue with all these color profiles, different displays, etc. Now you do not want to go with the lowest common denominator though. You have to grade for the best and use the best grading monitors.

But yes you are 110% correct that what is referencing even matter if the majority aren't using what's considered a reference.

I'll give you a great example...we had a client in grading her indy film & when she took it home on a drive to watch it, she complained it didn't look good on her home LED LG TV. They went through multiple iterations until she finally brought in her personal TV into the suite & said to grade it according to that.

This is where Apple went wrong...and I was telling my color guy this...

Apple should have fashioned their XDR display/color accuracy as the best monitor for everyone using THEIR APPLE devices...you can guarantee that the color will be accurate from Post, to your iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, etc. if you grade on this thing.

You'll have an eco-system where what you see on the XDR is what you see on your Apple device which is where most people are consuming now.

They also should have come out with a 4K & 5k versions with the 6k that were much lower in price point.

no offense, but that client sounds like the problem in this case rather than anything.

 

[Adult80HD]

The Pro Display XDR has terrible color for the price point IMO. There are much cheaper monitors that achieve a significantly wider color gamut. I think it's geared towards media creation for internet and broadcast. It's not designed for photography or other color critical work.

What? Care to back that up with some facts?

 

[upandown]

What? Care to back that up with some facts?

 

[Adult80HD]

Yeah, we've all seen that it was the basis for this thread. It does not support the broad claims you made however.

 

[upandown]

Yeah, we've all seen that it was the basis for this thread. It does not support the broad claims you made however.

I disagree

 

[Successful Sorcerer]

I disagree

Why? When compared to similar priced monitors it's actually very very good. Of course there are pros and cons and especially compared to the 43K monitor there are a few downsides but when you look at the tests it's truly great (for a lot but not all uses).

 

[blackadde]

Why? When compared to similar priced monitors it's actually very very good. Of course there are pros and cons and especially compared to the 43K monitor there are a few downsides but when you look at the tests it's truly great (for a lot but not all uses).

I can’t stress this enough, but that site is not considered a reputable or objective source of display reviews. They don’t even seem to understand the difference between calibration ad profiling, since you can’t actually adjust the internal LUT using XRite’s software.

This isn’t a comment on the XDR - no reviews over there are trustworthy.

 

[Kronekerdelta]

It means as the entity that spends millions of dollars on market research—and has paid video pros (and other vertical target markets) in house actually using, giving feedback and helping perfect the products in the advanced workflows group that interacts with the marketing and engineering groups responsible for the Mac Pro, XDR and other Pro products—Apple is in the best position to evaluate the potential size of the total addressable market, and which features pros want/need the most.

As opposed to some internet rando, who doesn’t necessarily even have any authority (or much knowledge, in many cases) from which to make an appeal. (Not specifically directed at you rkuo.)

This mentality is what made Theranos possible.

 

[chucker23n1]

This mentality is what made Theranos possible.

No, investors enjoying a grift they won’t go to prison for are what made Theranos possible. They had no reason to care if the tech worked, because it enriched them either way.

 

[Kronekerdelta]

No, investors enjoying a grift they won’t go to prison for are what made Theranos possible. They had no reason to care if the tech worked, because it enriched them either way.

They had no reason to care? LOL, nobody would have invested in said company had they known the scam it was.