RE: monitors?

Date : Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:55:23 +0100
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
Subject : RE: monitors?

>BUT what i mean is.....whatever i see on my eizo comes out just like that on the reference monitors and in television..... no loss or bad surprise when it's being aired,

is that true enough?

 

 

Not really, because not everyone works in TV. Also, not everyone watches TV on the same screen or type of screen. Also, and more important for you, the spectral responses of LCDs and CRTs are very different so actually no, your eizo doesn’t come out like the reference monitors and television because it’s not physically possible. In fact, you’ll find colours in the one that you can’t get in the other, and vice versa, regardless of how it’s calibrated.

 

Digging around for examples, the best I could come up with was this, comparing plasma and CRT but the principal is just the same for LCD.

http://scien.stanford.edu/class/psych221/projects/03/raldana/analysis.html

 

 Scroll down to the section ‘plasma TV analysis and take a look at the graphs, particularly the red and green. What they’re telling you is that there’s a whole range of red that isn’t there on the CRT phosphor; there’s a big chunk of colour that will never be displayed – that’s about the colour of a cricket ball, by the way. TV doesn’t do cricket balls the right colour. Or cherries.

 

You’re believing your eyes and your eyes lie most of the time.

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