Flanders Scientific’s Seven Serious Screens

For those who don’t know the company, Flanders Scientific builds professional reference displays for colour grading, broadcast and production. The new V and VP lines bring seven UHD QD-OLED displays to that lineup, with prices starting at $5,995 in the US.

If we ever buy a television, it’ll be a Flanders. Everything else is obviously rubbish. We say this with the impartiality of people who would happily run four 12G-SDI feeds into the living room and call the sofa a client review position. The VP and V are professional reference monitors, aimed chiefly at grading suites, edit rooms and workstations. Whether your family and partner appreciate a calibrated view of the weather is between them and the homeowners’ association.

Keep the panel, move the scopes

The launch makes a practical distinction. FSI says the new displays use the same QD-OLED panels and calibration tools as their corresponding XMP models. Both series keep GaiaColor AutoCal for calibration and GaiaColor Analyzer for checking display performance. They also keep HDR and SDR LUM Coloring for false-colour exposure checks, custom markers and red-, green- and blue-only viewing. FSI leaves out onboard waveform and vectorscope, Look LUT support, Livegrade integration, processed SDI outputs and the front-panel keypad. If your scopes and looks already live elsewhere in the signal chain, the monitor can concentrate on being a monitor. A controversial move in an industry that keeps giving perfectly good boxes more menus.

VP brings the BNCs

The four VP models add four 12G-SDI inputs and clean SDI outputs alongside HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4. Quad view lets you configure colour independently for each input or quadrant, handy when the sources on the wall need different settings. The 26.5-inch VP270 and 31.5-inch VP310 are rated at 1,000 nits peak. The 55-inch VP551 and 65-inch VP651 are rated at 4,000 nits peak. The series starts at $7,995, with savings of up to 30% against the matching XMP model at US MSRP.

V is for the room without SDI

The three V models take HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4. That puts them in play for editorial, VFX, animation, game development and grading rooms already fed over either connection. Or the living room. The 26.5-inch V270 and 31.5-inch V310 are rated at 1,000 nits peak, while the 55-inch V550 reaches a rated 2,000 nits peak. The 55-inch models are therefore a useful detail to check on the purchase order. The V550 and VP551 share a diagonal and differ in both connectivity and rated peak luminance. V starts at $5,995, with savings of up to 48% against an XMP of the same size and rated peak luminance.

Both series support 120 Hz refresh and stereoscopic 3D with an optional active-glasses system. FSI keeps XMP and XMP C in production for rooms that need onboard scopes, Look LUTs and Livegrade. The flagship XMP also retains processed SDI outputs and the front keypad.

Meanwhile, at Atomos

We covered the Atomos deal when it was announced in April. Atomos subsequently confirmed completion. The new ranges give a facility another way to allocate monitoring across rooms, with SDI in a primary suite and HDMI or DisplayPort at desks that already use those connections.

Before deploying either series, check representative SDR and HDR material through the actual output chain, with the display calibrated for the room and its deliverables.
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