One of the few sectors that seems to be able to put its head out in the face of the crisis in which we are immersed is undoubtedly that of gaming monitors. Every time they sell more, shipments do not stop increasing and benefits do the same. One of the innovations that more and more manufacturers are including is at the same time quite unknown and is listed as DCI-P3 , what exactly is it? Is it necessary to play or is it just another marketing ploy?
As we have already seen on many occasions, in gaming monitors the reality has little to do with what manufacturers sometimes claim. Many of the features are not such, many are unnecessary and others as we say are simply marketing that does not contribute anything to the user and yes perhaps to the price.
Is DCI-P3 one of them? We are going to treat it in depth and thus understand what we have to abide by when we talk about it.
DCI-P3: is it possibly the highest quality standard?
In order to describe DCI-P3 we have to understand what a color standard is. Both in commercial software and in videos and of course games, the colors that we see on the screen are generated by mixing other colors, since the pixels can only reproduce the three basic colors and are the only ones that are made natively.
In printers we have a similar situation with inks. Therefore, to make any image or print reliable, a series of frames that limit the production of color are needed, a standard that shows what is right for that printer, monitor or camera.
DCI-P3 is only one of the many color standards on the market, but it has certain peculiarities and above all, it is the most current and innovative. Especially since it focuses on being a standard from quite a distance from the most popular options on the market.
DCI-P3 Features
This standard is developed by the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers and is developed exclusively for the capture and projection of digital video. Therefore, it is a standard that will reflect better moving images, both displayed on any screen and captured by a camera.
DCI-P3 uses a pure gamma curve of 2.6, a white luminance of 48 cd / m 2 and a white point with the same correlated daylight temperature as D63 but greener
Its color gamut or spectrum of colors is almost a quarter wider (+ 25%) than that commonly used in sRGB, its great competitor, but in return it has a number of disadvantages that must be taken into account.
The first of them is that a certificate is needed in the specific product that we are going to buy that guarantees the display or capture of the entire range of colors for said standard. For example, all cinema-level digital projectors are compatible, like those of the film industry in general, as it is precisely a highly valued standard within the guild.
Therefore, and focusing on gaming monitors, that a panel is DCI-P3 certified will mean that its color range is greater than that of another model with a similar panel and sRGB. Normally, panels with DCI-P3 are only being seen for obvious reasons under IPS technology, where a good example is the ASUS TUF VG289Q , so it is not marketing as such, but indicates a greater representation of colors on screen, which will make the images we see more consistent with reality, as they were filmed or represented by the game developer.
