Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2016, George N. White III sent: > Back when SGI was producing workstations with Trinitron monitors we > had complaints from PC users (probably running Windows for Workgroups) > that colors in images we produced were bad. In fact, every PC was > different.
I'm not surprised. PCs had wierd pictures because their monitors were different from everything else that had gone before it, likewise with Macs. They have a different gamma than TV monitors, so people editing video on a computer had a different-looking picture than the end-user. And you had the same issue with printed media (ink or photo). I'd forever be seeing video with the black level pushed up to about 30%, as they'd maladjusted a normal signal to suit their monitor, instead of calibrating their monitor, and adjusting their video using a scope. To be fair, we'd see the same thing with non-computer edited material, for the same reasons. Edited on uncalibrated monitors, and the editor had no real idea about what they should be doing. Real video (TV/DVD) on the LCD computer monitors looks awful, for same reasons (gamma, pale phosphor, mal-adjustment, a different video 0 to 100% range than PCs used, different resolutions with awful scaling, and a different frame rate). Trying to do the wrong with with the wrong monitor just looks bad, and using it as your reference messes it up further for everything else. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Next time your service provider asks you to reboot your equipment, ask them to reboot theirs, first. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
