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SMPTE RP 145, SMPTE C Color<br />

Monitor Colorimetry.<br />

Table 22.4 SMPTE RP 145<br />

primaries apply to 480i<br />

SDTV systems, and to early<br />

1035i30 HDTV systems.<br />

ITU-R Rec. BT.709, Basic parameter<br />

values for the HDTV standard for the<br />

studio and for international<br />

programme exchange.<br />

Table 22.5 Rec. 709 primaries<br />

apply to 1280×720 and<br />

1920×1080 HDTV systems;<br />

they are incorporated into the<br />

sRGB standard for desktop PCs.<br />

Rec. 601 does not specify primary<br />

chromaticities. It is implicit that<br />

SMPTE RP 145 primaries are used<br />

with 480i, and that EBU 3213<br />

primaries are used with 576i.<br />

SMPTE RP 145 primaries<br />

For 480i SDTV, the primaries of SMPTE RP 145 are<br />

standard, as specified in Table 22.4:<br />

Red Green Blue White, D65 x 0.630 0.310 0.155 0.3127<br />

y 0.340 0.595 0.070 0.3290<br />

z 0.030 0.095 0.775 0.3582<br />

RP 145 primaries are specified in SMPTE 240M for<br />

1035i30 HDTV, and were once included as the “interim<br />

implementation” provision of SMPTE standards for<br />

1280×720, and 1920×1080 HDTV. The most recent<br />

revisions of SMPTE standards for 1280×720 and<br />

1920×1080 have dropped provisions for the “interim<br />

implementation,” and now specify only the Rec. 709<br />

primaries, which I will now describe.<br />

Rec. 709/sRGB primaries<br />

International agreement was obtained in 1990 on<br />

primaries for high-definition television (HDTV). The<br />

standard is formally denoted Recommendation ITU-R<br />

BT.709 (formerly CCIR Rec. 709). I’ll call it Rec. 709.<br />

Implausible though this sounds, the Rec. 709 chromaticities<br />

are a political compromise obtained by choosing<br />

EBU red, EBU blue, and a green which is the average<br />

(rounded to 2 digits) of EBU green and SMPTE green!<br />

These primaries are closely representative of contemporary<br />

monitors in studio video, computing, and<br />

computer graphics. The Rec. 709 primaries and its D65 white point are specified in Table 22.5:<br />

Red Green Blue White, D65 x 0.640 0.300 0.150 0.3127<br />

y 0.330 0.600 0.060 0.3290<br />

z 0.030 0.100 0.790 0.3582<br />

Video standards specify RGB chromaticities that are<br />

closely matched to practical monitors. Physical display<br />

devices involve tolerances and uncertainties, but if you<br />

have a monitor that conforms to Rec. 709 within some<br />

tolerance, you can think of the monitor as being deviceindependent.<br />

CHAPTER 22 COLOR SCIENCE FOR VIDEO 239

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