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Built in LUT explanation ?
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+ Better calibration results, as the LUT are usually more precise (12bit+) compared to the gfx card LUT. This means softer gradients, less banding.
+ Possibility calibrate directly monitor, no need to load additional info to the gfx card LUT during system startup.
+ Monitors with LUT are usually better quality.
+ It sounds cool.
- It is costly, in other words such monitors are more expensive.
- Not everyone needs it, some poeple are happy with on-screen menu adjustments.
- Need a calibrator to fully utilize it.
- Its usefulness can be prettly low with some crappy screens like Eizo using S-PVA or even TN panels in their "professional" monitors.
+ Possibility calibrate directly monitor, no need to load additional info to the gfx card LUT during system startup.
+ Monitors with LUT are usually better quality.
+ It sounds cool.
- It is costly, in other words such monitors are more expensive.
- Not everyone needs it, some poeple are happy with on-screen menu adjustments.
- Need a calibrator to fully utilize it.
- Its usefulness can be prettly low with some crappy screens like Eizo using S-PVA or even TN panels in their "professional" monitors.
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Yes monitors with it are expensive. The reset of your negatives are trivial to non existent.
Not everyone needs isn't exactly a negative about it. You don't need a calibrator to use the Internal LUTs any more than you need one to use the graphic card ones. The NEC has built in factory calibration that will use the internal LUTs as will most other settings. Again not fixing crappy monitors (didn't know there was a TN with internal LUTs) isn't an issue with having an Internal LUT. The only real negative is the price.
That should be: You still need color managed applications if your monitor is wide gamut.
If the monitor is sRGB like an NEC, you don't need color managed applications to display colors correctly. On a non wide gamut screen, the main work in calibration is correctly setting up the gamma curves. This will be done in the monitor and will work across all applications/operating systems etc.
The profiling step on an sRGB monitor like this is near irrelevant. True the primaries can be off a bit and could benefit from some slight remapping, in practice this has zero visual impact. I can load the same image in a color managed application and non color managed applications and they look identical, it is impossible to tell the difference. So the color managed aspect doesn't have any visual effect.
Well, vilius asked for negatives, so I come with some
Eizo S2402WE, EV2411WE.
"Colour reproduction is controlled by the internal 10-bit LUT (Look-Up-Table). This helps achieving a much more accurate grading of colour information than with an 8bit LUT."
Crazy Eizo combining TN and LUT
(and LED) The price is also crazy - 2/3 of HP LP2480zx.
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I know these LUTs are not rewritable, but maybe we are not far away from time when Eizo wull build programmable LUTs into TN monitors