And absolutely, positively none of that matters to what the last episode of Scandal looks like as delivered over Netflix alongside an image of RGB black, which was the entire point of the thread. My perspective was the production of the average content that a user would be doing that comparison against, not your damned thumb drive that absolutely works and therefore, obviously, invalidates everything I'm saying. I even said, repeatedly, that the content just doesn't exist. That's all I said. Let me repeat that, just so we're abundantly clear: yes, video engineer, it is technically possible, but it is pretty much never used.
I did not assert that 0% in image codecs was superblack. I specifically mentioned Photoshop to avoid pedantry with someone coming along and saying "but nonlinear editors won't emit superblack unless you force them to!", not to talk about image codecs. You did that, and I ended up with more pedantry than I had bargained for in this entire thread, so that was a pointless exercise. As was sharing my perspective at all, honestly; I'm a professional video editor with credits (where "gamut" is a common term to discuss this phenomenon, despite your doctorate in colorimetry), not a video engineer. I apologize for speaking out of turn, and will defer to your expertise in the future.
The irony is that you responded to someone making a joke about the exact thing that you're doing. Please, just stop.
And other people who do different things have different perspectives and discussion to offer! Amazing! Are you satisfied with your correctness?
You are the reason I hate this community. "Oh, neat, a thread I know something about. Let me try contributing. Oh, look, now I'm in a slapfight with a guy who develops codecs for a living who completely missed the point of what I was saying and the context thereof, and wants to correct my usage of an incorrect term because it's his area of expertise. Let me rush to contribute more."
HN: The Game of Being More Right Than Everyone Else. Congratulations on winning. I'll go play something productive.
Edit: This was left when the parent comment said "Sorry, I only develop video codecs for a living," and it has now been rewritten. I'm leaving mine and I'd rather my whole subthread just be detached and deleted at this point
I did not assert that 0% in image codecs was superblack. I specifically mentioned Photoshop to avoid pedantry with someone coming along and saying "but nonlinear editors won't emit superblack unless you force them to!", not to talk about image codecs. You did that, and I ended up with more pedantry than I had bargained for in this entire thread, so that was a pointless exercise. As was sharing my perspective at all, honestly; I'm a professional video editor with credits (where "gamut" is a common term to discuss this phenomenon, despite your doctorate in colorimetry), not a video engineer. I apologize for speaking out of turn, and will defer to your expertise in the future.
The irony is that you responded to someone making a joke about the exact thing that you're doing. Please, just stop.