


This is important if you don't want to pay the extra money to get your monitor calibrated.

A color gamut, whether in SDR or HDR, tells us what range of colors a monitor can display, and its color accuracy tells us how well it can display those colors.īefore calibration, we measure how good a monitor's color accuracy is. It's important to know most LED monitors have trouble displaying bright blues, so that's usually the color that is the most inaccurate both before and after calibration.ĭo not get mixed up between a monitor's color accuracy and its color gamut. However, post-calibration, almost every monitor can display colors extremely accurately, and even professionals won't spot inaccuracies without the aid of a colorimeter. In monitors that have bad pre-calibration color accuracy, most people will be able to tell. Refer to this table to see how the different scores affect who'll notice any inaccuracies. Some people, like professionals, will notice inaccuracies easier than others. Color accuracy affects the way you see every type of content.
