BT.709

Reference Name: ITU-R BT.709

Definition: ITU-R BT.709-6: Parameter values for the HDTV standards for production and international programme exchange

Responsible Organization: International Telecommunication Union

Contact Information:
ICC Technical Secretary
email: green@colourspace.net

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation source ITU Recommendation BT.709-6 (06/2015)

ENCODING CHARACTERISTICS

Color space

Type: Colorimetric RGB color space

Color gamut: CRT-based (ITU-R BT.709-3)
RGB primaries:
      x 	  y 	  z
R 	0.64 	0.33 	0.03
G 	0.30 	0.60 	0.10
B 	0.15 	0.06 	0.79

Color component transfer function: 2.4 gamma

White point luminance: 100 cd/m2

White point chromaticity: x = 0.3127, y = 0.3290 (D65)

Encoding

Range: linear RGB; see ITU-R BT.709-3 for details of black and nominal peak white quantization levels for 8 and 10-bit encodings

Bit depth: 8 or 10

Image state: Output-referred display
