The standard is freely available at the ITU website, and that document should be used as the authoritative reference. The essentials are summarized below. See more

Conversion between different standards of video frame rates and color encoding has always been a challenge for content producers distributing through … See more

sRGB was created after the early development of Rec.709. The creators of sRGB chose to use the same primaries and white point as Rec.709, but changed the tone response curve (sometimes referred to as gamma) to better suit the intended use in … See more

• Rec. 601, a comparable standard for standard-definition television (SDTV)
• Rec. 2020, a standard for ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV) with Wide Color Gamut (WCG)
• Rec. 2100, a standard for See more

• ITU-R BT.709-6: Parameter values for the HDTV standards for production and international programme exchange. June, 2015. Note that the -6 is the current version; previous versions were -1 through to -5.
• Poynton, Charles, Perceptual … See more