Channel 02
Light & Colour
How panels produce, filter and transform light into the colours that reach your eye.
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The Triangle Is Not the Colour
A gamut percentage tells you the shape of a panel's colour space. It says nothing about whether the colours land where they should.
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What D65 Actually Is and Why Panels Miss It
D65 is not a colour temperature. It is a defined spectral power distribution — and most panels only approximate it.
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Quantum Dots Against the Phosphor They Replace
Two materials both convert blue photons into red and green light. Only one does it with enough precision to matter to the colour triangle.
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More Zones, More Problems
Local dimming raises LCD contrast by controlling the backlight in sectors. More zones tighten the dark floor — but each zone boundary is a potential halo.
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Peak Nits and the Conditions That Produce Them
The headline nit count on an HDR display is a single number describing a measurement taken under conditions no real content will reproduce.