[Tig] color

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dick Hobbs wrote:
>
> No-one, I think, who has any serious knowledge of colour correction
> seriously expects a software application that runs on a desktop
> computer to be a proper colour processor. Even given the eight core
> Mac that we all secretly crave but cannot justify buying, it is never
> going to be able to do the realtime stuff that Pandora's Revolution
> board does so remarkably - almost unbelievably - well (other colour
> processors are available).

Regardless of the suitability of Apple hardware and software, this 
sounds like an "eat your words" sort of statement.  With HDMI 1.3 
bringing along support for 10 (or 12) bit color at 1080P/24, the 
established performance of video card GPUs, and the ability to plug 
multiple PCI-Express cards (capable of real time 2K video) into modern 
computers, the realtime potential is just around the corner (if not 
already here) and what is really lacking is "affordable" software and 
control interfaces which do their job properly.  There is not much 
incentive to produce such low-cost software since the market is 
already used to paying big bucks for products which work.

Bob
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