CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[sh4dow]

since i'm trying to get the most out of my current monitor, i have spent days researching all kinds of colorimeters and software and at some point, i stumbled across various home theater calibration software.

and i asked myself: why?

isn't the whole point of calibrating your display (whether desktop or TV) to get a picture that is accurate color-wise, regardless of purpose? well... and (if you use a decent tool) choosing between things like a certain maximum brightness vs. specific contrast ratio, etc.
the only thing i can think about that might be different with TVs (assuming you use both TV and computer for consuming the same media) might be the tonal response curve. but considering that content on both PC and TV is usually following sRGB or gamma 2.2 (if what this article says is correct) anyway, that difference should be negligible?

what else is there that would make a calibration of a TV with e.g. lacie blue eye pro software or a calibration of a monitor with chromapure inappropriate?
although now that i'm thinking about it... is it that... usually, on a TV, the adjustments you can make on the hardware are a lot finer (e.g. gain and bias for individual channels) while on a computer setup, various tools will usually adjust the output of the graphics card in addition to rough RGB settings on the monitor?

[ChrisWiggles]

From a goal perspective they are the same. From a hardware perspective they are the same. From a measurement software perspective (to go with the meter) they are the same.

However, there are several computer software programs that are designed to create a software profile for the display, essentially adjusting inside the computer, rather than measuring and then user-adjustment of the display itself.

So if you want to create an icc profile type thing in your computer, then you need software that does specifically that, which is usually computer-oriented software.

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[sh4dow]

thanks a lot for the explanation