Desview’s Three New Pro Video Monitors Have Accurate Color and Big, Bright Screens

Desview has unveiled three new professional field monitors. The OL14 Pro, OL16 Max, and OL16 Ultra 12G are all built for professional video workflows and promise the features and performance that pros require.

At the top of the lineup is the $2,999 Desview Core OL16 Ultra 12G. As its name suggests, this is a 16-inch monitor. It has an AMOLED display with 3840 x 2400 resolution, a 16:10 aspect ratio, and 331 PPI.

The screen’s typical brightness is just 400 nits, but its peak brightness hits 1200 nits, supporting an HDR workflow. The monitor covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space and has 10-bit color depth.

Desview notes that the monitor supports professional LUTs and imported 3D LUTs from industry-standard color-grading software. It also accepts Calman’s 3D LUTs and full calibration to ensure consistent, accurate color.

As a professional video monitor, the Core OL16 Ultra 12G has a lot of interesting tricks up its sleeve, too. It has multi-view monitoring with dual-view and quad-view split screens, per-window LUT support, professional waveform tools with histogram, vectorscope, zebra, and false color, and anamorphic desqueeze.

The monitor has one HDMI in and four 12G-SDI ports. It accepts XLR-type DC input and 5.5-2.1mm threaded DC input for power. Filmmakers can also use V-mount batteries.

As mentioned above, the Desview Core OL16 Ultra 12G is $2,999.

Desview also offers a second 16-inch monitor in its new lineup: the OL16 Max. It offers many of the same features as the Core OL16 Ultra 12G, but with four 3G-SDI ports rather than four 12G-SDI ports.

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It still has an OLED panel with 3840 x 2400 resolution, 1200-nit peak brightness, and the same 3D LUT support. Like its pricier sibling, it also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, dual speakers, and a tally indicator.

However, as Desview notes, having 3G versus 12G SDI is a big deal for some video workflows. 12G-SDI has significantly higher bandwidth than 3G-SDI and supports native uncompressed 4K UHD transmission. 3G-SDI still supports 4Kp60 video transmission, but its data rates are dramatically lower than 12G-SDI.

The Desview Core OL16 Max is $1,999.

If 3G-SDI is suitable, the third new Desview monitor remains an option for many film crews. The Core OL14 Pro has a 13.3-inch AMOLED panel with 1920 x 1080 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio.

While the screen is smaller and the resolution is lower, the panel still has 1200-nit peak brightness and covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space. It has the same professional monitoring tools, anamorphic desqueeze, and 3D LUT support as Desview’s new 16-inch field monitors, but has less screen real estate and fewer pixels.

As noted, it has 3G-SDI, but only three slots instead of the four on the OL16 Max. However, the OL14 Pro is the only one of Desview’s new monitors to have two HDMI inputs instead of just one, so there’s that.

The Desview OL14 Pro is $1,299.

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