Broadcast reference monitor

One common use of video monitors is in television stations, television studios, production trucks and in outside broadcast vehicles, where broadcast engineers use them for confidence checking of analog signal and digital signals throughout the system.

Banks of reference monitors are also a common sight on the sets of newscasts, showing internal or external feeds.

[1][2][3] For quality control purposes, it is necessary for a broadcast reference monitor to produce (reasonably) consistent images from facility to facility, to reveal any flaws in the material, and also not to introduce any image artifacts (such as aliasing) that is not in the source material.

Broadcast monitors will try to avoid post processing such as a video scaler, line doubling and any image enhancements such as dynamic contrast.

[4] LCDs and plasmas are also inherently progressive displays and may need to perform deinterlacing on interlaced video signals.