Color Me Intrigued: A Jaunt Through Color Technology in Video
summary
Explains which color primaries and gamuts map to real-world colors and gives the exact YCbCr matrices used to convert RGB to BT.709 and BT.2020, shows why 10‑bit quantization matters and how PQ and HLG differ as transfer functions, documents HDR10 and HDR10+ metadata like mastering display maxCLL and how tone mapping uses it, measures browser and codec fragmentation (VP9’s 3‑bit color field, AV1/HEVC 10‑bit profiles) and reports which pipelines actually render color correctly.
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