[weyland-yutani]

Isf calibration is supposed to achieve an international TV standard, but what of film? Are cinemas calibrated to this standard? Is the term international TV standard an antiquated term that should be replaced by international display standard or is there some reason it refers to TV?

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

ISF calibration is not to International TV standard. It is calibration of a display for the standards required for the source material being shown on it. Films, broadcast on tv or on DVD are modified from their cinematic presentation in order to be shown on TV. They are modified to look the way the director intended on NTSC and PAL formats in USA and UK....and other standards in other countries. For HD-DVD and BD discs they are modified in a different way.

Digital Cinema has it's own different set of standards (in fact several).

You do not calibrate a domestic video system to display films on DVD or BD to match cinematic standards as the result would be innacurate.

hope this is some sense