I've been working on calibrating my display and following a lot of the various calibration threads. It seems to me that when talking about accurate primary colors that CRTs tend to be more accurate and capable of producing the most accurate colors. It seems a lot of the newer technologies tend to have over-saturated colors, based on some of the calibration files I have seen from various people. A lot of times this can be adjusted for somewhat, but most displays primaries are pretty much fixed (no adjustment even in service menus) so it is a give and take when trying to adjust color. Is what I'm saying true because the REC 601 and 709 specs were based on CRT phosphor colors and the fact to sell more TVs over-saturation looks "good" to a lot of people. Or is nothing that I have said true at all.

Depends, I'd say generally no. CRT projectors need to be filtered down to get accurate SMPTE C color. Many direct views are not too different in this regard.

What's great about some of the newer front projection displays is that you can move the primaries around to get spot-on colors. If you want the most accurate primaries, I don't think you're going to get that the best with most CRT displays, except those that do use SMPTE C accurate phosphors which are generally just professional BVMs.

Id say any type of CRT or Plasma TV's. They a depended upon high contrast ratio and full
color without focusing on Red, Blue, or Green to combine. Some has Cyan or Magneta like
the ones on DLP's. CRT projection is a different type of architecture from CRT Direct Views.

Greetings,

I'ld have to agree with ChrisWiggles... Many consumer CRT/Phosphor based displays do not conform to system standards when it comes to colorimetry. Many other technologies allow you to not only meet one standard "spot on", but also allow the accommodation of many standards within one display; whereas, a CRT/Phosphor based device does not.

Regards,

Dave

Of course you have to factor in the potential color-decoder issues as well.

Of course you have to factor in the potential color-decoder issues as well.

Agree. I guess the reason I'm asking this is that colors are pretty close on my CRT RPTV (using the Color HCFR free software). The files I see from people with DLPs and plasma's tend to show the colors way off even after calibration. Granted there are some that are OK and some people just may not know how to make proper adjustments, but it made me like my CRT even more based on what I was seeing.