Okay, okay.
What Samsung models are you talking about? Its like saying "how do I calibrate my "SONY"?
Are they really intended to be computer displays or cinema displays or grade monitors? -- ie really good at text (read contrasty) or what is their gamut/bitdepth capability... etc ?
Are they intended to enhance the viewer's experience of the image -- that is, are they already overcompensating in order to make the picture "look good"... as you say they look "fantastic".
If so, they're not good candidates for grading. What you're after is the truth. (And believe me, its out there.... ) (This is where the thread took a right turn to reality and went into conspiracy theory but that was in a parallel universe.)
So, horses for courses... there are a few consumer probes out there (spider?) and I have no idea how they perform, because I set myself up with a recognized grading monitor and I don't give the subject much thought anymore. The broadcasters are happy, the indies are thrilled, no shortcuts, no cheap tricks, no bait-and-switch...
You do what the market will bear, and what your clients, if you have them, will put up with. If you're doing this for yourself, it doesn't much matter, but put yourself in a paying customer's position. In another sense, you ARE the paying customer. You apparently want to give yourself this problem of having to calibrate your viewing screen, which is your bread-and-butter. And you're going to have to keep doing it because these consumer monitors are not stable for any length of time, maybe not even over the duration of a regular session, and might get worse with use.
At the end of the day, maybe the lack of response to the thread is a kind of a shrug in the direction of 'its probably not worth the continuing trouble and expense to try to push a consumer monitor into the pro world', and if its not meant to satisfy pro criteria.... the benefit is difficult to justify.
jPo
