Gamut and number of colors?

Why have wide gamut monitors not more colors than the standard 16.7M onces?

Isn´t wide gamut just a great marketing gimmick that have little or no meaning in practice?

I´m looking at buying a good display for photo editing and these technical and marketing bla bla aren´t helping.

It's certainly not a marketing gimmick.

Take a look at the CIE chart here for an example:

3007 review

The white triangle shows the 3007's gamut or colors that it can physically reproduce. It cannot reproduce the most saturated blues. A wide gamut monitor should be able to produce more portions of that "ideal" black triangle. This should result in a more accurate image.

Of course just as important is the quality of the factory calibration. Also key is the primary accuracy. This is corners of that white triangle. Oversaturated points (i.e. white triangle goes beyond black triangle) tends to produce unnatural looking images; grass that is too vivid, etc.

Icebreaker said:

Why have wide gamut monitors not more colors than the standard 16.7M onces?

Isn´t wide gamut just a great marketing gimmick that have little or no meaning in practice?

I´m looking at buying a good display for photo editing and these technical and marketing bla bla aren´t helping.

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It can be a gimmic and it can also be legit.

For example.. The Samsung 931C is a total gimmic.. 6-bit TN panel monitor with 97% colour gamut.. When you view a picture of a human being on it they look orange. So obviously it's garbage.

Thanks for your replies.

So it might be worth it to wait for the new type of monitors that have 8 bit panels and 92% of NTSC?

I read that NEC is coming out with a 26" and HP with a 30" but I don´t need that large. Is there any hope that for example a 20" monitor will be released....or is the same happening for the 20" as happened for the 17" and 19" that they become too small for high quality panels?

A lower gamut monitor is not accurately displaying all the colors that it is being told to display. For example, if a card can only display 78% of the NTSC color gamut and is asked to display Red=255, Green=0, Blue=0, chances are the red it displays is not the correct red. It simply can't display a fully saturated red because of the backlight technology being used. If you are not a graphics professional and hadn't read this, you probably wouldn't have ever known or cared. But the truth is most LCDs (and CRTs) can't truthfully display the full color gamut.

Thanks!

This panel technology and the specs are more misleading than I thought. If a panel cannot show 16.7M colors, then it shouldn´t been rated that way. I wonder what the actual colors are in reality?

I also don´t understand why calibrated monitors like the HP L2065 or similar have Delta E less than 0.5 when they can only produce 72% of the NTSC gamut.