[argyllcms] Re: Calibrating SED flat screen

Le Jeudi 9 Février 2006 09:34, Graeme Gill a écrit :

> Many technologies make a splash at some point, trying to hold back
> the opposition, and to attract funding, but they may never make it at
> the end of the day. Field emission displays have been touted
> for a few years, but they haven't arrived yet. Organic LED is
> being talked about a lot, but hasn't arrived yet. Plasma has
> been around for a long time in TV's, but has never made it into
> computer monitors.

It seems that SED are like FED, without FED problems.
Well, wait and see !

> If the phosphor set is similar to a CRT, then a CRT instrument might
> work OK.

Right.

> Generally the cheaper instruments are colorimeters, and will have
> slightly different calibration factors for each type of primary color set
> if they are going to be accurate, whereas a spectrometer doesn't need
> such calibration factors.
>
> [Some people claim that spectrometers aren't so good with narrow band
> sources such as CRT phosphor, but I haven't seen a convincing technical
> explanation to back up this claim yet.]

What kind of screen are you using ? CRT, or TFT ? I've read on forums that 
TFT are now better than CRT (larger gammut, better time life...). But what 
about price ?

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   Frédéric

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