Sony Electronics will soon offer a 30.5-inch 4K HDR professional monitor for critical evaluation, color grading, live production and post. The BVM-HX3110 has a Sony-designed, dual-layer, antireflection LCD panel with Sony proprietary signal processing, which Sony says supports a higher peak luminance of up to 4000cd/m² while maintaining deep, no-compromise blacks.
Along with characteristics such as accurate color reproduction, picture consistency and precision imaging, which are hallmarks of Sony’s BVM-series of monitors, the BVM-HX3110 offers brighter specular highlights and introduces an optional new fast pixel response mode for reduced motion blur. It also provides a wider viewing angle and a standard IP interface for SMPTE ST 2110 signals to complement Sony’s Networked Live ecosystem. The established BVM-HX310 remains available as a companion model to the BVM-HX3110, offering consistency in color reproduction, gamma curve and operation.
“Content creators are always seeking tools that help to accurately match and represent their creative vision, and the BVM-HX3110 does just that,” says Ellen Heine, marketing manager at Sony Electronics. “We continue to act on customers’ feedback, which is why this new model offers a host of new features, including an IP interface for enhanced flexibility. And of course, in keeping with Sony’s monitor design philosophy, it color-matches with our most popular professional monitors.”
The monitor’s standard toolset incorporates waveform monitor/vectorscope, false color, focus assist, closed captioning, 3D LUT processing, and quad and side-by-side viewing modes, among other features. Besides the option for fast pixel response, other supplemental benefits through optional licenses include support for JPEG XS, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HDR/SDR conversion and a user 3D LUT signal output.
The BVM-HX3110 uses the same color gamut as and works seamlessly with several other Sony monitors, such as the BVM-HX310 and the PVM-X and LMD-A series monitors. This includes the just-announced LMD-A180, an 18.4-inch HD HDR high-grade picture monitor with a wide color gamut. Ideal for on-set monitoring, the LMD-A180 can also be rack-mounted for general monitoring purposes. It replaces the LMD-A170 monitor.
Sony displayed a prototype of the BVM-HX3110 at NAB 2023 and expects to release the product in November. The LMD-A180 release is planned for the fall.
