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If you are indeed getting such excellent Blacks, then look to the possibility that your gain on the semi-gloss melamine is really starting out at just over 1.0, and the addition of the Top Coat of Poly Acrylic Matte is diffusing the reflectivity of that surface, thereby lessening the gain, and deepening the Black levels through attenuation.
That would preclude the possibility of the screen being 1.3 gain.
Validate this by taking a piece of uncoated melamine, hit it with a image with lots of Black (Underworld Evolution) and note the difference between that piece and your coated version.
Your one of the few people we all can count on as being subjective in your reasoning, and powers of observation.
In any case, the use of melamine is an old one, left mostly unappreciated and underutilized due to it's sheen issues. Once those issues are brought under control, it serves well as a white reflective surface. Only the weight factor of melamine usually being laminated onto 1/2" or thicker MDF or HDF boards create any other undesirable factors. Recently, melamine coated 1/8" hardboard has been used to great effect under these and similar coated circumstances.
If you are indeed getting such excellent Blacks, then look to the possibility that your gain on the semi-gloss melamine is really starting out at just over 1.0, and the addition of the Top Coat of Poly Acrylic Matte is diffusing the reflectivity of that surface, thereby lessening the gain, and deepening the Black levels through attenuation.
That would preclude the possibility of the screen being 1.3 gain.
Validate this by taking a piece of uncoated melamine, hit it with a image with lots of Black (Underworld Evolution) and note the difference between that piece and your coated version.
Your one of the few people we all can count on as being subjective in your reasoning, and powers of observation.
In any case, the use of melamine is an old one, left mostly unappreciated and underutilized due to it's sheen issues. Once those issues are brought under control, it serves well as a white reflective surface. Only the weight factor of melamine usually being laminated onto 1/2" or thicker MDF or HDF boards create any other undesirable factors. Recently, melamine coated 1/8" hardboard has been used to great effect under these and similar coated circumstances.