I have a question about where the calibration adjustments are made in low to medium-end LCD monitors (not high end models, like Eizos). I have an aging Dell U3011 and a Viewsonic VP2365WB, which are 'okay' monitors, but certainly not what I'd call high end. With our old CRTs, we were able to adjust white luminance, black luminance, white point, etc, inside the CRT monitor itself using the monitor's controls. These preliminary adjustments did not alter the information in our video cards, leaving them in a pristine, straight-line condition. Then our profiling software made minor adjustments to give us a neutral grayscale with even steps between levels, and wrote this to the VLUT of the video card and to the vcgt tag in our profiles. Unless choosing Native White Point, this usually meant reducing the gain of one or two of the RGB channels. With consumer level LCDs, it was always my understanding that the ONLY analog control on the monitor was the brightness of the backlight (once again, I'm not talking about higher end LCDs). It was also my understanding, that if we altered the white point using the monitor's RGB gain controls, or selected a preset (such as 5000K, 6500K, 7500K, etc), these changes were reflected in the curves written to our video cards and not inside the monitor itself. I am questioning whether I am mistaken here. Do most consumer LCD monitors have the internal circuitry and graphic processors to make these changes independent of the video card in our computers? And if so, is it better to try to achieve our targets using the monitor controls? My approach to calibrating and profiling my monitors was to leave the LCD monitor's RGB gains all set to 100%, contrast set to factory default, adjust the backlight control to achieve my desired white luminance, then let the profiling software make all the necessary adjustments to achieve my targets for white point, white and black luminance, gamma, etc. Thanks for any feedback. Lou