Instrumentation for Monitor Calibration

Joseph J. Kane

The SMPTE Working Group on Professional/Studio Monitors has evolved a Recommended Practice (RP) document for calibrating Type-A picture monitors used in critical viewing applications. This RP advocates the use of instrumentation in the monitor-calibration procedure as the most expedient way of obtaining consistency of picture quality throughout the industry. Actual use of this instrumentation, without a knowledge of its limitations and how to get around those limitations, will not fulfill the promise of the document. There is still no substitute for knowledge of the NTSC color system and what it takes to make the system function properly.

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Published
1990-09
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J02590