The dilemma I face and I am sure others face is that NONE of my customers have the brightness and contrast set properly. That is because the factory default settings on their televisions are set incorrectly on all TV's by the industry. I sell mostly VHS tapes which compounds the problem.

I end up making compromises on the monitor setup to allow for the problem and literally test each color correction and/or filter change I make in Vegas on 5 different brands of TV's after a loop render. It takes forever, but that is what is required to produce a high quality VHS copy which will look excellent on an "AVERAGE" television.

What also compounds the problem for me is that I primarily shoot theatre productions and have to deal with "lighting artists" and "artistic directors" who think blooming an actors head into a white blob is art. Or that a night scene requires a blue spot or zero light. Of course, they expect an excellent video as well or it's the fault of the videographer. I am sure I am ranting about something all of you know anyway, but the point is that calibrating a monitor has to include allowances for what the customer's televisions will display. Unfortunately this means kicking the brightness and contrast up a few notches.

John