ColorMunki Display or i1Display Pro?

[TNA]

Thinking of grabbing one of these soon. Don't really do any professional work, just mainly for better colours generally and for gaming.

Will likely just use DisplayCal so the more powerful software the pro comes with may not be that beneficial. Would not mind trying to calibrate my TV's if possible, can DisplayCal do this?

My main concern if both these devices seem like they have been out for a long time and may be due a refresh. We have OLED and HDR coming shortly. Will these devices be out of date in a years time when they become available or do the devices get firmware updates or something? In which case maybe better to get the cheaper Colormunki Display?

Any advice would be much appreciated

 

[Baddass]

unless your monitor has a hardware calibration support then a calibration with either device would involve the creation of an ICC profile which would be active at a graphics card level. that ICC profile can be active in windows and applications with colour management like photoshop, and can be used if needed to match between devices including printers, screen, scanner, camera etc where supported. however, ICC profiles like that get abandoned generally for gaming and video applications unless they specifically support colour management and colour profiles. to be honest, you probably don't even want a calibration like that active for those uses as it's generally preferred to have a different setup than for desktop use with different gamma, cooler colour temperature and maybe more vivid colours. so the lack of support for ICC profiles in games and movies isn't really an issue, i only mention it because you were talking about improving setup for games.

what the device will do though during the calibration and profiling process is guide you towards optimal OSD settings for brightness, contrast and RGB to reach your desired targets. so actually you will; achieve a better setup for the screen even before the ICC profile carries out the further corrections of things like the gamma curve and colour accuracy. so even when ICC profiles are then abandoned for games etc, your monitor would still be set up better OSD settings to start with.

in terms of calibrating the TV's it would only work if you were viewing a PC on the TV, like from a media centre machine or something. but again, you probably dont even want that for TV use as it's probably better to set it up bye eye for preferred conditions rather than going for "accuracy"

both devices are very good. it remains to be seen what is done in terms of correction matrices for OLED etc but mainstream use of those kind of techs is still a long way off so probably not worth worrying about. for general uses like you have, i doubt it would matter much anyway if there was some slight error in reading OLED backlights etc when calibrating. that would really only become a problem if you were trying to calibrate and match lots of different displays with different backlight technologies, reviewing and testing screens or needing to set them up for very high end, pro grade uses

 

[TNA]

Thank you for the detailed answer Baddass.

I am thinking maybe to just get the Colormunki Display for now, as I am not sure that the Pro will offer anything extra that I would need. Saving the extra cost I can always get something better in 2 years time.

Here is a post I read in the Dell S2716DG thread which got me wondering if I could benefit doing something similar on a Asus MG279Q.

If games support reshade then use a 3dlut that would have been calibrated from the .icc profile. I use Displaycalgui to manage and lock my profiles to games so it doesn't reset the gamma. It's like cpkeeper but built into the calibration software that I use.

The difference it makes to games is amazing and better than sweetfx profiles as it keeps everything natural and not oversaturated.

Does anyone do something similar to this? Can anyone elaborate?