[Openicc] Linux CM ideology, was: meta data in test chart

[edmund ronald]

Graeme,

 I think the TV movie guys and camera guys are going to end up
figuring out a model which works for them, just to get things working
reasonably well - customers who walk into a TV store expect to compare
TVs, cinematographers expect their theater and TV audience to share an
experience etc - I think at some point these people are going to
figure out a model which allows them to quickly measure a device and
get decent video or image color on it. Remember that these guys know
that they will soon be dealing both with wide gamut but also high
dynamic range devices.

Edmund

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:
> Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> I agree, but this is really untenable in the current 9 month product cycle
>> they are in.
>> They are changing panels and products even mid-stream production. There's
>> so much
>> demand to get stuff out, and materials are so different that they actually
>> can't make
>> them behave like sRGB. It's not a gamut size issue, it's the shape due to
>> different
>> primaries.
>
> That all works against them doing anything though. They are so focussed on
> the
> next box, time to market, features, applications, alliances and market
> share, that
> as long as there is color and movement ("oooh - shiny!" "See how bright it
> is!"
> "See how small the pixels are!"), everyone is happy.
>
> Only if the rapid change slows down, and companies have to start competing
> on
> more subtle details (like whether colors match between devices), will
> there be any interest in color management.
>
> [ Actually, what I write above isn't strictly true. There is one group
>  within the portable platform developers that worry about color,
>  and that's the people responsible for the camera. But while they may
>  use color management tools to solve their problems, it's a closed
>  problem - they are only really worried about how their own photo's
>  appear on their display, and to a far lesser degree how their photo's
>  look on other displays. It isn't their task to introduce sane color
>  management, or worry about intra-operability, and they don't have time
>  to worry about it anyway. ]
>
> The bottom line is that system wide color management is driven primarily by
> special interests, ie. graphics arts professionals and the applications
> vendors
> that cater to them. A similar and more diverse group is photographers, and
> some of the amateur enthusiasts.
>
> Graeme Gill.
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