Television hookup for FCP display

Hi all,
I've been looking to buy either a plama of lcd television so I can view all of my footage in fcp. I've always thought the way to go would be to buy a set with firewire ports so I may view my footage through the 'mirror out to firewire', however, not only is a set with firewire difficult, if not impossible to buy here in Canada (for some reason we are leap years behind and hundreds above in availability and cost), but I'm also wondering if the same feature is possible using the HDMI output for a second monitor (which I'm avoiding since I'll be using 2 monitors as it is). If I'm not mistaken this is a possible way to use 3 'monitors' with FCP on a single system without a breakout box, however, I'm also concerned with which is best and will this set-up allow for proper color correction ect. Please ring in on this. Thanks.
24"iMac, G4dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

That port will probably only display DV if it works at all for this... I'd want to confirm that it does indeed accept FW video signals and what ones it can deal with format wise.
HDV will require the Matrox box, or a Kona 3 card.
Decklink's HDMI card would allow to view externally, but I'd want to talk to them first about what signals it can process. HDV is an odd duck format and as far as I know, has to be converted to uncompressed HD for viewing externally, and no where on the Decklink site does it say it will convert HDV to uncompressed... it just takes the HDMI live signal from a camera, and turns it into something other than HDV.
HD will require a Kona card or Decklink card.
HDV or DVCPROHD will capature via FW, but HDV cannot be monitored externally via FireWire. Odd but true... it's a compressed signal that no monitor views directly I'm afraid. It has to be converted to something that a monitor can understand analog or digital (and the cameras don't accomplish this), and the HDMI card from Decklink assumes you're turning the HDV signal to another format, like uncompressed HD or DVCPROHD I'm pretty sure. Uncompressed HD would require some very beefy disk arrays to deal with it at all.
With that said... there's something else to consider. LCD's aren't showing you video that should be used for critical color correction. They just don't show correct black levels mostly. CRT's are still the standard in this arena. LCD's to date (including the pro LCD's) just aren't accurate enough. Plasmas are probably better, but still don't have as accurate a display as CRT's do.
Jerry

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sarecco wrote:
PLEASE HELP A PC GUY MOVE OVER...
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sarecco wrote:
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sarecco wrote:
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sarecco wrote:
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sarecco wrote:
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