Last time I was talked about the monitor calibration. This time, let talk about the color saturation.

Most of the time, people will feel LCD is better than Plasma from many aspect, such as color, performance, clarity and so on. But do you know, the worst amount of color that can be reproduced by the monitor is LCD?? Does this answer surprise you?? But it is true, LCD is the worst monitor that can reproduced the amount of type of colors.

So, How they trick your eyes?? Before I go to a little bit detail, let the wikipedia show you what is Gamuts about:

Gamuts are commonly represented as areas as shown at above, with the curved edge representing the monochromatic colors. Gamut areas typically have triangular shapes because most color reproduction is done with three primaries.

A typical CRT gamut.
The grayed-out horseshoe shape is the entire range of possible chromaticties. The colored triangle is the gamut available to a typical computer monitor; it does not cover the entire space. The corners of the triangle are the primary colors for this gamut; in the case of a CRT, they depend on the colors of the phosphors of the monitor. At each point, the brightest possible RGB color of that chromaticity is displayed, resulting in the bright Mach band stripes corresponding to the edges of the RGB color cube.

Source from WIKIPEDIA

Here shows the gamuts for normal LCD monitor:
Source from Display Daily

Since the LCD monitor has the smallest gamuts among all of kinds of monitor. So how can they trick our eyes? The theory behind is just simple. Color Saturation can easily done the job nicely and without notice by most of the users.

Here I show an example to explain why.

(original of the picture)

(After enhancing the color saturation, the pink was became more pinkish... )

(This shows the low amount of color saturation. When the color saturation is 0, the picture will become black and white only.)

So, LCD monitor actually is much suitable to watch cartoons and animes then movies. Because of its saturated color can make the anime and cartoons looks much more nicer but for the nature color like movie, thing will easily get wrong.

For the future, when you looking at those LCD panels with a very 'nice' looking color, BEWARE. Maybe you will become the next victim? Actually, overall for LCD is still good. What I want to deliver through this post is, don't just simply been cheated by those electronic retailer. You can try to ask them to show the video test pattern to let you do the comparison between different LCD monitors if can, which is like this:


But I don't really think the retailer will show you this, or even don't dare to show.