The Terminator (1984) (in red case) May 5, 2015

[Geoff D]

I don't think I said impossible, just highly unlikely. Penton Man said that small tweaks are done to take certain types of home viewing tech into account, like a slight lifting of the blacks, but on the level you're describing with colour specifically, I'd say no.

It's axiomatic that LCD will have worse blacks than plasma or OLED because that's a technological limitation, you can't change it on an LCD no matter what settings you use. But there are no such colour accuracy issues inherent to LCD tech, only what the user preference will be, so where's the reference point? A straw poll of manufacturers re: their default modes (which themselves aren't the same from Sony to LG to Samsung etc) might have very different results to what a straw poll of end-users would reveal (even the average joe has changed the settings at some point), so it's far easier and simpler to stick with the established white point, chromaticities etc and let people get on with it from there.

And, as I said before, I've seen the DCP of Blade Runner FC in two different but equally well set-up theaters and it was very much like the Blu-ray, perhaps not quite so aggressive with the colour (see paragraph below). But unless this theatrical master was meant to look good in Torch mode on matey's 32" supermarket special LCD I'll go with it being intended to look like that, regardless of what it's being viewed on. (Which is the point of the XYZ gamut that DCPs are encoded in, it's display agnostic.)

Still, the move to a wider gamut for UHD BD @ 10-bit and possibly P3 colour space can only be a good thing in the long run, because it will introduce more subtlety to colour on home video. Now that won't mean it'll reduce colour saturation, but it'll mean that there are more shades of colour, so what might start out as the dreaded teal at any given point will taper off into more subtle shades than what a Rec.709 version could give you, thereby lessening the perceived aggressiveness of the teal timing.