tion. It will have factory presets for standard color ranges, such as NTSC, SMPTE sRGB, Adobe RGB and DCI. HP has been vague about the details (hence, we can’t show you what it looks like yet), except to say it will sell for less than a quarter of what a comparable studio monitor would sell for. The technology will likely migrate across HP’s consumer and business monitor lines as well.

“The problem with the LED solutions is they tend to be more expensive to implement,” says Alexander. “LED continues to be an area of much interest for achieving color purity, but if with the LED backlight solution, you have long-term reliability issues coming into it—if you have uneven degradation or uniformity issues—then they’re not as interested in it. If you cre-

ate a problem in the process of the solution, then that’s going to be a problem with some of the people I’ve spoken with.”

LED-backlit desktop monitors have made little, if any progress since a year ago, according to Chris Connery, DisplaySearch’s vice president for PC and large-format commercial displays. Because wide color gamut CCFL monitors now approach or even ex-

Sony’s new 52-inch “ruggedized” GXD-L52H1 LCD display is designed to withstand high-volume traffic areas in hotel lobbies, shopping malls, stadiums and airports. (Stock footage image courtesy of Artbeats.)