How do you know of a screen is wide gamut?

[hawtdawg]

Im in the market for an lcd screen, but I think i'd like to avoid a wide-gamut screen. How the hell do i even tell which ones are or aren't wide gamut?

 

[Daedalus685]

Short answer is that all screens are designed to reproduce adobe RGB colour space. They can all do this, and properly calibrated many can do it very well. If the display is capable of producing colours widely outside of this gamut (which is largely pointless as no digital images will be able to utilize it but for some extremely special cases in design) you might get a washy looking crazy 'extra' intense image.. the kind of image that screams "I was never calibrated". But it largely doesn't matter. Many reviews of a display will list the colour space it is capable of reproducing but the specs on a display (all of them generally) are so out of proportion with reality that they are useless.

Oh, and of course there is the fact that anything capable of producing the wide gamut RGB will cost a bloody fortune.

 

[Martimus]

Most cheaper IPS panels are wide gamut, such as the U2410. The ZR24w is standard gamut however.

You should be able to read their spec sheets, and see if they are Wide Gamut or not. If it says 72 % of NTSC it is standard gamut. If it says 97% of NTSC or greater it is Wide Gamut.

 

[shangshang]

^ is there something like 80% NTSC?

 

[Daedalus685]

The vast majority of digital products use sRGB or adobe RGB 98 these days. Only TVs will still carry the NTSC ratings. NTSC is a brodcast standard and as far as I know was replaced in the USA last year. Will be here next year.