This article was originally published at www.display-central.com.
Inside the Sony booth at NAB 2014, Insight Media took a look at Sony’s new line of professional OLED monitors (see video above). The company’s booth featured a 30-inch 4K OLED monitor, which was set up as a prototype. It will manufacture the new monitor on the same line that it manufactures the rest of its OLED monitors. There is no specific timeline yet on when the company will deliver the new monitor, but they said sometime in 2014. While specs can go up to about 300 nits, it will be used mostly at 100 nits for color-grading and broadcast applications. The feature are typical of the full set of features for broadcasting.
Sony also has a new line of LCD broadcast monitors in 17-, 22-, and 24-inch sizes with typical feature sets. These monitors complement the PVM line of OLED monitors that the company also offers. No particular timeline or availability date has been set.
For the 4K monitor, Sony is evaluating the opportunity to add 120 HZ frame rate support and high-dynamic range. Insight Media does not expect those to be part of the initial product, however, but it’s something the company is certainly taking a look at. Also, Sony is working to make sure the 4K OLED meets the 2020 broadcast UHD 4K color space requirements.
On the other side of the booth, Sony showed off its stitching application, including two 4K displays that they stitched together and telestrated. It has shown that product for over a year now, but now they can sell it. The entire system is priced at about $300K, which includes two F55 cameras without lenses. It also includes servers, the processors, the control, and the workstation —all the hardware, basically. The software is sold in addition to that, and the company is pricing it either as a $40,000 per-year license or a $2,000 per-week license. And that’s each, for the stitching software and the telestration software.