TV or NSTC Monitor
 

I use a good old fashioned tv for my analog video. Use it for color correction and analysis. I know that there are huge benefits of getting a proper video monitor such as blue calibration and so forth. Nevertheless, people whol view my video will view it on a televison set. I am at a finite budget like everyone is and am interested in investing in a monitor. Is it really necessary? Wouldn't money be better spent on other video enhancing products like a lens or additional high end filters? What inexpensive monitors do you recommend?

How critical is your work, who is your audience?

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My audience is married couples for the most part. I also do a lot of free work for schools. Most people really don't worry about the color quality but I want to creaqte great products. Even if they are done for free. What difference would a NSTC monitor make?

If you're happy with your current productions and so are your clients, then your other equipment needs should take precedence. However, at some point in the future you'll need a production monitor to achieve higher quality results. The better monitor will help you do a more critical evaluation of your work.

What Jeff said, and in addition:

If you are color correcting to your TV, you are shifting the original footage in one direction or another somewhat blindly. If your TV delivers an image that deviates from a neutral standard (represented by a properly calibrated broadcast monitor), then you run the risk of making your footage look worse rather than better for a certain percentage of other televisions out there. To get the most out of your current setup, it would be a good move to generate color bars from your NLE and tune your TV to them (a search here should turn up a tuturial on how to do this).