Wire, You wrote (in your usual stylish prose):
Meanwhile UHD TV is blasting away with change. And it turns out they don't even expose the concept of color management outside of the confines of the specific tool. Who cares what the Windows UI looks like. They just pick a standard and build the gear to it. At the end of the pipeline, a display is given a personality either with a built-in LUT or using custom renderer. Reps go around youtube explaining—quite properly—that you pick a gamma to suit your viewing conditions. Sony is in bed with Panavision and all that gear is rented,
I was watching some CES2020 coverage (on YouTube), yesterday, all kinds of new mind-boggling gadgets as usual but I was naturally drawn to "television", SAMSUNG, LG, SONY, PANASONIC, you know?... It's clear these guys *are* building the future, a future that is bound to come to down computer monitors, sooner than later. We often talk about "Viewing conditions" and how it affects perception? Well, seems televisions manufacturers are starting to incorporate those ideas in "modern television", on the heel of all kinds of international technology committees. It's no longer 'whatever-image-or-signal-that-comes-down-the- antenna', they're building evermore sophisticated image processing on top of basic image handling capabilities. It's not just "Ambient light compensation", it's analyzing the image content and adjusting the rendering to "optimize" the visual experience. Soon, they'll have cameras that take into account who's watching, a kid, a teenager, a parent, a senior? Adjusting the image based on physiological factors? It's only a matter of time before the Dell, the NECs, the Eizo, the HPs and the rest soon start to offer a host of additional "smarts" that OS and the better image processing apps, like Photoshop, will take advantage of. The next years will be a fun ride. / Roger