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HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display

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color-critical displays

The gold standard color critical display for creative professionals. The LP2480zx display is used by many of the world’s leading animation studios and visual effects companies as well.

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The HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display has the features that color professionals need to excel in their work. This display is ideal for a wide range of color workflows including animation, visual effects, post production, digital photography and digital pre-press.

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Over One Billion On-screen Colors
With 10-bits per color, the DreamColor panel produces over one billion colors¹, 64 times more than mainstream LCD displays. The left image is an example of banding artifacts from insufficient bit depth. The DreamColor display virtually eliminates contouring or banding artifacts (as in the image on right). This lets users know with certainty that if they see banding artifacts, it is in the content, not from the display.

Incredible black levels & dark scene tone response
The DreamColor display has such incredibly low black levels, you may even confuse it for a CRT. The DreamColor panel also faithfully reproduces detail in the shadow scenes. The black levels are deep, rich and black from any vantage point in the room, which means you see the details you need to see—even in the shadows—and so does the VFX supervisor standing over your shoulder.

Factory Calibrated for Push Button Color Accuracy
This DreamColor display is factory calibrated for color accuracy. Factory calibrated presets include: Rec. 709, Rec. 601, Adobe® RGB, sRGB and DCI P3. With the DreamColor Calibration Solution, you can calibrate all displays so they match each other and the color standard. By using the HP DreamColor Calibration Solution, you can even create your own color space preset by specifying the target luminance, primaries, tone response and white point.

The DreamColor display Broad Format Support and Broad Frame Rate Support

Broad Format Support & Broad Frame Rate Support
The DreamColor display has an excellent range of frame formats including: 1080p, 1080i, 720p, NTSC and PAL. Customers working in feature films can work at 2048X1080 at 24 or 48 fps—2K is the current digital cinema standard.

A major film studio identified the LP2480zx as the only display in class that correctly displays 48 fps material without motion artifacts introduced by the display. Native support for all standard video/film frame rates without frame rate conversion: 23.976p, 24p, 29.97i/p, 30p, 48p, 50i/p, 60i/p.

Out of the Box Productivity Features
You asked for an interface that works well in both high and low light environments without distracting LED backlights. HP Night Vision User Interface is the answer and features convenient on-screen menu tags and LED backlit buttons. After a period of inactivity, the buttons auto-fade to black.

A Wide Range of Inputs
The DreamColor display also includes an 4-way comfort adjust stand with quick release, integrated cable management and 4-port USB hub. Inputs include DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, VGA, Component, Composite and S-Video.

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HP DreamColor Calibration Solution
The studios that use the HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display take full advantage of custom calibration so that what they see in the screening room matches what they see at their desks and what the audience will see in the theater.

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Animated Feature Films Graphic Arts Visual Effects Post Production Digital Prepress Live Action Film Production Professional Photography

Animated Feature Films
When producing animated content for feature films, studios will often make use of dozens of modelers, layout artists, animators, painters, shaders, and lighters. These artists could be working in different offices and are sometimes globally dispersed. To maintain the scene and character color consistency and the quality of the final product, it is critical that the displays on every artist's desk display the film not only identically but the same as it appears in their dailies rooms. HP DreamColor technology for monitors and select HP Mobile Workstations make this possible. The production team can calibrate their displays to an industry standard color space such as DCI-P3 or Rec. 709. They can even create their own custom color space and calibrate all displays to it, giving producers and directors the confidence that their team of artists can meet their critical color requirements for animated features.

Application: Adobe Illustrator CS6. Application image used by permission from Adobe Systems Inc.

Graphic Arts
"What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) is the cornerstone of the graphic arts and printing industries, and it is essential that the graphic artist uses a display that is capable of presenting the layout and imagery as it will appear on press. The HP DreamColor technology for displays and mobile workstations provides an RGB LED backlight that allows the display to be precisely calibrated to the specific color temperature required for print without reducing the range of colors that can be displayed onscreen.

Image: Courtesy Blender Foundation, Creative Commons Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org

Visual Effects
In order for visual effects to merge seamlessly with the location or set photography it is critical that the colorimetry of the scene is matched exactly. For VFX artists responsible for compositing, texturing, digital paint, their display becomes the most-important piece of hardware. The images they see must match those that other artists working on the film see and must also match the dailies room projector. HP DreamColor displays and mobile workstations allow the VFX house's color scientists to ensure not only that every artist is working in the production's chosen color space, but that the scenes they work on look the same on every artist's system. And the display's ability to display 24fps material without frame rate conversion ensures that scene playback looks the same on the artist's system as it will in the theater.

Application: Davinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design, application image used by permission. Film: Tears of Steel, Creative Commons Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org

Post Production
While much of post-production editorial historically has not required color accuracy, with the advent of digital acquisition, editors are finding that they are being asked to perform some level of color grading, from matching shots for screenings to creating the final grade for delivery. HP DreamColor displays and mobile workstations ensure that the images they see onscreen in their edit monitors or full-screen output accurately represent the video or film color space they will be delivering to, eliminating the screening/mastering surprises that often occur with standard computer monitors.

Application: Adobe inDesign CS6. Application image used by permission from Adobe Systems Inc.

Digital Prepress
"What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) is the cornerstone of the printing industry and it is essential that the pre-press operator uses a display that is capable of presenting the layout and imagery as it will appear on press. The HP DreamColor technology for displays and mobile workstations provides an RGB LED backlight that allows the display to be precisely calibrated to the specific color temperature required for print without reducing the range of colors that can be displayed onscreen.

Image from Waiting for Lightning, a skateboarding documentary film produced by Bandito Brothers (Jacob Rosenberg Producer). Image © Bandito Brothers.

Live Action Film Production
As film production transitions to digital acquisition (using, for example, RED or Alexa cameras, DSLR, etc.) the desire to use a large display for framing and focus checking becomes increasingly important. HP DreamColor displays not only support digital cinema's DCI-P3 color space, but can also natively operate at 24 or 48 frames per second, providing an artifact-free image of what the camera captures. And if quick VFX comps are required on set, the HP Mobile Workstation with DreamColor technology also supports DCI-P3, allowing for color-accurate viewing.

Image by Chris McLennan, Professional Photographer, HP DreamColor Ambassador. Chris uses HP DreamColor displays and DreamColor mobile workstations in his studio and on the road around the world to review and edit his astounding images. See cmphoto.co.nz for more amazing photos. Images copyright Chris McLennan Photography.

Professional Photography
For professional photographers, a wide gamut of colors and extreme color accuracy are critical success factors. Photographers get both with HP DreamColor technology. With its 30-bit panel color depth, HP DreamColor supports more than a billion color possibilities, giving photographers a huge pallet of rich colors. Most displays offer just 24-bit panel color depth, so the pro photographer can never be sure if the banding/contouring artifact is in the image or in the display.

In addition, HP DreamColor can be set to the Adobe® RGB color space which is used by many professionals. This standard has the same primaries as that of the sRGB color space used in typical mobile workstation displays with one exception—it uses a much more saturated green primary. HP DreamColor gets this just right. This means that photographers working in the field can see the same colors on their mobile workstations that they would see on systems in their home studios.