#Xrite idisplay 2 pro#
#Xrite idisplay 2 professional#

Note the comments about the beautiful colors. Here are several professionals observations about these monitors which have phenomenal overall performance. High quality video sources just look stunning on these displays because of their technology and accuracy. When I work on these displays very small changes to white are all that is required when these products are relatively new to achieve a very accurate image. I believe the best way to tell if your instrumentation is working well is if it is not telling you to change products that are already correct or very close like Sony BVM and PVM color grade OLED monitors which are made to be +-1%. My conclusion is that most of the tools and techniques people are using are too flawed for the task. Scott makes the following observation about his experience with calibrating his displays, “Why is it that CMS’s, color management systems, so often make the picture worse than if you did nothing at all…In many cases is just looks horrible.” They go on to discuss the reasons why and possible solutions, but I find Scott’s observations about CMS calibration to be true in the vast majority of systems I work on where someone has tried to set the CMS or any color setting based on an instrument. This is a quote from Scott Wilkinson of Home Theater Geeks Episode #129 He is talking with Derek Smith from SpectraCal who makes CalMan. Here is another persons observations you should consider as well. When you are calibrating a display the near black should look very dark charcoal gray when displaying white balance patterns. Unfortunately, images are dominated by the dark regions and poor color performance there looks very odd. Most tools people purchase are very poor near black and improve as the image gets brighter. I find this type of error to be very common. This was obvious when looking at images on the display. The white in this case was visually shifting from purple at very dark levels to bluish to near correct at the very brightest level using the i1 Display Pro.

#Xrite idisplay 2 pro#

The charts below show the difference in the results from using an i1 Display Pro to AccuCal proprietary tools which are referenced to a $24,000 spectrophotometer (PR-670). Let’s first compare the calibration of the color white from dark levels to bright.

#Xrite idisplay 2 professional#

The following is a comparison of the results from using an i1 Display Pro on a Sony VPL-VW500ES (foreign version of the VPL-VW600ES) versus professional tools optimized for the task by AccuCal. The results are also frequently worse than what could be achieved by not using the instrument and just selecting a good picture mode and some reasonable basic settings. As a professional in the field with very high quality tools I can say the vast majority of video calibrations that are being done in home theaters are very poor. The question you should have before investing in these tools is do they really improve my results. Purchasing calibration tools to setup your home theater is popular today.