[commieneko]

No blog. I've thought about doing that, though mostly in the context of covering technical aspects for artists and designers. I've often found it easier to teach designers to deal with technical issues than to teach technical people to deal with design issues. I was actually expecting a lot more argument from people about my comment. Every good artist learns early that they can't trust their own eyes ...

The legal brightness and color usage has to do with the fact that certain levels can cause signal distortion. The details are different, but think of overpowering an audio amp and the distortion you can get. Analog video is a real nightmare of limitations and artifacts. Most facilities I've worked at had signal clippers at some point in their signal chain, but those can cause their own problems. Best to stay away from the cliff's edges. These days HD and digital are much nicer, but there are still a lot of NTSC TVs out there. The situation is a lot like continuing to support older versions of IE.