> Now I don't care for YouTube (which I don't use anyway), but if > you are looking at a movie or a picture exhibit this makes a big > difference. > Sure, some of us who care about image quality may buy good panels (i.e. I care greatly about black-levels so I still watch movies on Plasma) and take the time to calibrate. Your average Joe however, will just leave the over-saturated color and contrast which the manufacturers and stores use, in order to draw attention. So you can argue that users should be able to calibrate their smartphone/tablet screens as they see fit, but I still maintain that the majority of users have no clue about this. The same goes for sound btw. where enthusiasts like George Lucas came up with the THX certification, yet most people are contend with their crappy Sony system made from cheap IC's and resistors.
> It's also happening with monitors and TV equipments, of > course, since color management is not a common practice, but with Google's > > lack of care in this area things will go worse. It's the typical case in > which technology for the masses damages culture and frankly it's quite > delusional that Google doesn't care. > I think "damages culture" is put a little extreme, for a number of reasons. First of all, colors are not perceived equally by everyone so that makes it rather hard to say "this is right". Secondly, nothing stops you from pursuing high fidelity products yourself, as is the case with so many other things i.e. sound. Third, new technologies (OLED) are subject to tremendous pressure to deliver and evolve. For the record, the brand new Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Mobile 7.5, exhibits the same odd color temperature issue which the user is not able to calibrate. There can be little doubt, that as technologies get better and better, so will the mass marked products using these. You could always open a bug with AOSP and request a calibration API be made available, but I am not convinced this can be solved with software given the plethora of technologies and drivers in use today. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/Eq1ZH0xSgB4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
