Talk:Rec. 709

The BT
What to the letters "BT" stand for in the "recommendation"?
 * Broadcast, Television Cxw (talk) 20:01, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


 * It means Broadcasting service (television). 2A00:1370:812D:178D:E8D7:9054:9DC5:E243 (talk) 15:43, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm thinking of moving (renaming) this page to BT.709. "Rec." is the historical prefix, from the days when the organization was CCIR (dealing with radio). CCIR and CCITT (which had its own Recs.) were incorporated into ITU. However, there are other "Recs." from ITU, such as ITU-T G.709. The cover page of the document itself reads "Recommendation ITU-R BT.709-5," so the Rec. and the 709 aren't contiguous. It seems to me that BT.709 is relatively unambiguous, and it matches the notation in the standard itself. Also, I propose the same treatment for Rec. 601. Comments? (talk) 20:29, 2 March 2012 (UTC-5)

HD SD convert
"Whenever SDTV is upconverted to HDTV, or HDTV is downconverted to SDTV, at the studio or at the consumers' premises, luma-chroma matrixing is required."

Quote:"The colours produced by red, green and blue signals, with each of the others turned off, should be within the EBU tolerance boxes in EBU Tech 3273 [13]. The difference between the gamuts of ITU-R BT.709 [2] (HDTV) and EBU (SDTV) [14] systems is so small as to be negligible." Source:EBU – TECH 3321

So I delete the Part. --88.78.4.253 (talk) 15:55, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The above statements are both correct, the EBU one refers to colour correction matrixing (also known as masking)and the second one luma matrixing to convert Rec 709 to Rec 601 signals, two entirely separate operations, so your stupid deletion was nothing short of ignorant vandalism. You should not edit things about which you clearly understand absolutely nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.237.213.154 (talk) 00:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Also, if we are talking about NTSC 1953, it is not: color managment is not negligable. And for SMPTE C technically too. See: http://drag.wootest.net/misc/palgen.html 2A00:1370:812D:F205:7520:9495:D4E5:3C4B (talk) 23:08, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

approved in 1990 Earliest revision
The article says that 709 was first approved in 1990. However, 709-1, which is the first revision listed, is dated 11/93. I'm not completely sure what's going on here, but this is at least unclear - can anyone help clear this up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.27.22 (talk) 15:36, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


 * The first Rec709 in 1990 was under the CCIR which was superseded in 1992 by ITU, which published BT.709-1 in November of 1993. These early published recommendations still had a number of unanswered questions, it wasn't till BT.709-3 circa 2000-ish that the standard looks mostly as it does today. I'll put this into a revised history to clear things up. --Myndex (talk) 13:46, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Caption for figure of primaries on chromaticity diagram
The caption of the first figure, depicting the BT.709 primaries on the CIE 1931 x, y chromaticity diagram has numerous issues: Accordingly, I have edited the caption to remove the errors of fact and improve readability. Lovibond (talk) 23:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) The current label refers to the "CIE 1931 color space;" the figure depicts the CIE 1931 x, y chromaticity diagram.
 * 2) The current label incorrectly asserts the figure "shows the Rec. 709 (HDTV) color space".
 * 3) Verbiage "in the triangle" is awkward.

Major edit on Dec. 10 2020
In looking at this article, and the talk page here, it became clear the article had never been updated to reflect the changes in BT.709-6. In addition, the article had gathered a lot os, eh, dust, errors, and even some unsupported/unreliable opinion. Did my best to bring it all into Wikipedia standards, and hopefully did not miss anything, I mainly targeted the "big chunks" and went for clarity. I'm certainly happy to discuss further if anyone has questions or comments. For background, I'm a professional in the Hollywood film and television industry, and this is a subject I am very familiar with.

Some things to do still: put the frame rates into a table, perhaps gamut comparisons with other formats, gamut mapping, the use as the canonical set of primaries for unbound formats like EXR, etc etc. --Myndex (talk) 18:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

And to ADD: I just saw that my note on what was changed did not post with the change in history ?!? Weird. Might have been due to using the visual editor. --Myndex (talk) 18:27, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Does anybody have CCIR Rec. XA/11 1986-90f, a.k.a. IWP 11/6-2108 (Canada)?
It derived BT.709 primaries. By B. Powell. Also there is some paper from him: "Influence of display primaries on the colorimetric characteristics of colour television", that is by Australian broadcasting corporation, report No 136. 2A00:1370:812D:F205:108B:718F:EEAD:CC70 (talk) 06:53, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Irrellevant uncited junk and other damage to these articles
This article has become a total train wreck of irrelevant information. It is now composed of a ton of edits by editors where english is not their first language, and whose IP addresses originate in Russia, and have added unsupported opinion, and mangled or made so much of this into irrelevant babble it is shocking. What is going on? This is happening with a number of other related color articles. Myndex (talk) 01:43, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * "Editors" It was only me, in particluar alpha and beta info, etc. Please be more particular about what you do not like. I wanted to add more cites about 2.35 gamma. I do have them... I fully rewrote BT.2020, Pantone, BT.2100, modified BT.601, wrote a lot of xvYCC article, corrected key parts of Photo CD article, modified HDR articles, etc. 2A00:1FA0:4664:8ED4:CC39:8CA2:453B:D575 (talk) 21:05, 7 November 2021 (UTC)


 * What I "don't like" is random junk, and poorly written, passive voice, confusing, tangential, or irrelevant information that does not help the article nor pertain directly to BT.709. Myndex (talk) 13:58, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You did not clarify what you don't like, are you saying that bt709 history is not complicated and its derivation is not important? Valery Zapolodov (talk) 12:40, 24 December 2021 (UTC)