ginger said:
e.g. HDMI Colour Space - what the %$£! is that all about?
From my stupid amounts of time reading up on this
the different TV formats (ntsc / pal / 720 digital / 1080 digital) have the same numbers representing different colours. E.g. maybe for pal (10,50,50) is a blue, whereas for 720 digital it's a bit more sea-greeny. The 'colour space' is the table that turns numbers into colours.
The problem comes when a player converts e.g. a dvd from pal up to 720p or 1080i digital for transmission over hdmi. It (probably) should work out "what colour does the dvd want the image to be here based on the data and the pal colour scheme?" and then "I'll calculate and send out the 720p numbers that will result in the same colour being displayed, assuming the display uses the 720p colour scheme correctly". But some players don't convert colour space internally when upscaling (the sony 975 I think from what I've read), and some tvs might be expecting different colour schemes. Maybe.
So the S97 gives you the choice of what colour scheme it should assume the display is going to be using, and then it'll send out picture data which should look correct when displayed that way. Maybe try different values and see what looks best? Or ask the manufacturer, look here or on
www.avsforum.com to see if anyone knows what colour space your display is using? I'm sure
someone here knows enough about this to answer
The different colour spaces may have come about as displays have got better and can now display a wider gamut of colours than 20+ years ago when they were first chosen. So recent digital transmission schemes like hdmi, designed for recent displays, use different colour spaces to pal and ntsc. Again, maybe...
Apologies if this was too long-winded
or for any errors.