Charles Poynton has repeatedly stated that Dr. Kenichiro Masaoka – the developer of BT.2020 – intended the wide color gamut standard solely as a container, not as a mastering color space. The evidence shows otherwise. Masaoka’s correspondence, published papers and presentations show that BT.2020 was engineered as a forward-looking mastering color space, contingent on emerging … Continue reading Charles Poynton: BT.2020 Historical Revisionism