monitors

[starbucksbabe83]

so we have some ancient, and by ancient i mean early 2000's, jvc monitors in our control room. we are wanting to upgrade however we are on a tight budget of course. I was wondering do you think a regular tv set would work as a monitor like a 19" or so? Pro's,Con's, suggestions?

Kara

[SterlingAug]

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[Paris MkVI]

Much depends on the monitors you would place in there, as well as the connections. Are the JVC's malfunctioning? Granted, I don't much care for them myself (we have them as well, although ours are newer.)

I presume you are considering some small LCD's as opposed to CRT's?

Connectivity may be an issue; without more information we can only guess.

Space may be an issue. Are your current units rack-mounted? If not, what depth do you have to work with on the surface where they sit?

If they are sitting on a desk or flat shelf, you can always easily swap a replacement in, try it out and swap back if it doesn't appear to be a good solution, of course.

If your monitors are using the video pass-through feature, you might need to do some pokery-jiggery to send a signal downstream to the device originally fed via the pass-through. Using a T at the connection point is generally not a good idea.

[cw4u]

Originally Posted by starbucksbabe83

so we have some ancient, and by ancient i mean early 2000's, jvc monitors in our control room.

If you think that's ancient...we use B&W Sony monitors from like the early 80s...haha. They still work well though.

Honestly, the only time I'd look at doing a monitor upgrade would be when you get a switcher with a multi-viewer built in.

[wogster]

Originally Posted by starbucksbabe83

so we have some ancient, and by ancient i mean early 2000's, jvc monitors in our control room. we are wanting to upgrade however we are on a tight budget of course. I was wondering do you think a regular tv set would work as a monitor like a 19" or so? Pro's,Con's, suggestions?

Kara

Early 2000's isn't ancient by monitor standards, it's just nicely broken in. Unless your monitors are starting to fail, then your best and cheapest solution is to leave them be. Especially the older CRT style monitors, those should be good for many years of service, the newer CCFL based LCD screens, not nearly as long.