Nominal Range/Expanded Blacks

By ryan.tollefson - Posted on October 9th, 2008

Category:

TV/Video

Registry Key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Debug\ehPresenter.dll

Description:

This is an unsupported video settings that Ian Kennedy posted on The Green Button.

This will set your nominal range to video levels, the current defualt for MCEⁱ. Use with properly calibrated consumer displays and projectors. IE: devices set for 7.5IRE blacks.

"NominalRange"=dword:2

This will set your nominal range to 0-255 (PC levels) essentially doing "expanded blacks" use this with a typical PC monitor calibrated for blacks==0.

"NominalRange"=dword:1

More Info:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/278264/ShowThread.aspx#278264

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