Re: Reliable broadcast colors possible?

Thanks for the reply! Of course this sparks even more questions...

I have read this several times now that certain combinations of color and brightness "can" combine to illegal values in the video signal. But wouldn't this always be the same combinations that convert into the same illegal values? Or is there some other influence? Because if not it should be no problem to look at the color values in a software and determine if they will be out of bounds as a video signal, even considering different conversion standards. They would have to be selectable of course.
Otherwise I wonder what these broadcast safe plugins actually do and assume when they flag values as illegal.

Another thing is that we are only working in RGB. Somebody else told me it would actually be impossible to generate any illegal values in RGB as long as you stay in the range of 0-255, i.e. no superblack or superwhite. Does that make sense then? Btw this concerns PAL country only.