Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles
Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles
- Subject: Re: Multiple Active Monitor Profiles
- From: Karl Koch <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:27:13 +0100
Am 16.11.2006 um 09:57 schrieb Graeme Gill:
This continued poor state of affairs is really the monitor
manufacturers
fault. There is no reason they could not agree to put the necessary
information in a published (but initially private) ICC tag, nor is
there
any reason they could not standardize or at least make public the
means of
configuring the monitor. In would then be straightforward for
Operating Systems and other software to set the monitors
correctly, just as happens now for the vcgt tag and the video
card LUTs. It's also the fault of the video card manufacturers,
for not providing > 8 bit LUT output values (too much focus on
games), and VESA for only providing 8 bits in the (relatively recent)
DVI standard (no excuse there).
Hi Graeme,
as long, as we have a zillion different and incompatible power plugs
in the world, I bear no hope that something like monitor protocols
will ever be standardized ;-)
But you are right, it´s high time to move away from the 8 bit
restriction in video cards. And the main responsibility here lies
with the standardization bodies (VESA in this case). Matrox has a
video card that allows for 10 bit data (and 10 bit output, which,
btw. works fine with a monitor that accepts 10 bit data, e.g. the NEC
LED). We had suggested a method of using this feature effectively,
but Matrox was not willing to dedicate development resources.
Maybe this list can put some pressure on monitor and video card
manufacturers.
Karl Koch
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