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February 3, 2008

xvYCC Color Standard

The human eye can see a broader range of colors than the standard sRGB color space. The “xvYCC” (Extended YCC Colorimetry for Video Applications) color standard (IEC 61966-2-4) is a color space for use video electronics to display virtually the entire gamut of colors perceivable by the human eye. The extended xvYCC gamut supporting some 1.8 times as many colors as the commonplace sRGB color space - deeper greens, reds and blues

A color model is a mathematical models defining how colors can be represented as groups of numbers – RGB and CMYK are color models. Color models are mapped to a reference color space (see diagram) with the footprint within the space being the gamut.

sRGB is a standard RGB (Red Green Blue) color space created jointly by HP and Microsoft for use on monitors, printers, and the Internet.

Sony, for example, with the assistance of WCG-CCFL (Wide Color Gamut Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps), has adopted the new xvYCC standard with their Bravia XBR5 Full HD LCDs however, they refer to it as x.v.Color.

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