The Validity and Relevance of Reference Displays

In the past the ubiquity of the CRT display meant that it was reasonably easy to evaluate visually and check the color of images for public broadcast or viewing. — With the advent of new display technologies consumers are now viewing a wide array of different display technologies other than CRT including LCD (both CCFL and LED backlit), Plasma and recently OLED. While HD television has gone a long way towards unifying broadcast standards world wide under the ITU. BT.709 standard, studios are still clinging to their last CRT broadcast displays as references for how their images will look to the average consumer. Is this still a valid way to work? Should we be sticking to CRT devices as our reference, is it time for a new reference, or is the whole concept of a color reference monitor no longer valid?

Published

2011-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Reference Display, Reference Monitor, Broadcast Monitor, color management

DOI

10.5594/M001057

ISBN

978-1-61482-940-9