I want to use the display as an output preview for editing NTSC video. Should I purchase a display monitor that has a color gamut with as close to 100% coverage of NTSC (1953) as possible?
No. The NTSC (National Television System Committee) specification for color television encoding was finalized in 1953. Part of this specification defined the color gamut for the system as three color primaries; red, green and blue. The gamut that these primaries actually encompass was huge and well beyond the limitations of the TV camera and display technology at the time, so it was never actually adopted for TV broadcast applications. In practice a much smaller and more achievable color gamut, known today as SMPTE-C or SMPTE 170M, was officially standardized and adopted by the TV broadcast industry in the 1960s. The original NTSC 1953 gamut specification has lingered in various charts and tables and has been resurrected in recent years as a large color gamut with which to compare device gamuts, even though it has nothing to do with modern TV applications. It is very important to note that anyone who is doing any kind of video editing or production on their display monitor actually nee
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