Why are TV's not calibrated in the factory?

Rockets

This really comes from buying a new monitor with my CAD Workstation. With a HP professional Z monitor it comes with a calibration certificate to known industry standards. This is mainly to do with getting the best true image - say the monitor was being used for mainly renderings/graphics the image needs to be true what you see on the screen.

You get a calibration certificate with the values it calibrated to. The thing is it wasn't that much more expensive for this service, lets say no more than £50.

Surely for the average buyer who is spending £1000  on a TV a factory calibration to industry standards which added £50 to the price would be a welcome change.

JayCee

The general TV buying public aren't interested in colour accuracy.

EndlessWaves

TVs are factory calibrated, as are monitors for that matter.

The calibration you're talking about is to stricter standards.

andy1249

They are calibrated to an extent, especially higher end models.
Out of box calibration settings , as you will see in most reviews , are generally pretty good these days with a lot having non visible variations from 0 IRE.

Budget models , not so much, as I suspect calibration is sacrificed to hit the lower price points.

Rodders53

Cost.  The great unwashed buy on price, not quality in the main.

Have you ever gone into people's homes and seen the pictures they choose to watch?

PC Monitor calibration is probably more to do with Pantone colours and reproduction in Print than in viewing for the TV/film industry, I'd have thought?

Rockets

Well I would think most people spending over £1000 would be interested in the feature of the TV calibrated to D65 and have a certificate with the unit.

Price is not an issue, not in the slightest with the low cost labour in the countries the tv's are made.

Example
OK this monitor has come down in price but even at it's peak it was only £250 and now is about £180.
With it you get your calibration and factory report.
                                                                               
So even if the presets of a TV are good as standard why can't we have the best the unit can offer for relatively low cost. Who wouldn't pay £50 for for that benefit if they paid £1000  for the tv.

Rodders53

The vast majority?
Evidence: the few that are willing to pay and keep TV Calibration businesses (of which there are few) in work.

If you're convinced of the sales model:  contact some TV makers with a view to buy a container load of sets supplied with Test Certificates and sell them on at a suitable mark-up?

Greg Hook

The vast majority of people buying a TV wouldn't even know what D65 is.

Atavus

They probably know it’s a Volvo.

Rockets

The calibration business is gone as a big user base, the main client base already get there monitors calibrated from the factory. There are thousands and thousands of people in this country alone working in graphics design, printing, CAD, rendering, CGI, video editing, video creating and animation. The manufacturers have quickly learnt that they can do factory calibration very much cheaper than traditional methods = buying a monitor already calibrated from the factory for £180,

How would me contacting a manufacturer work???? Firstly I have no interest in doing such a thing secondly for a container load of TV's they will laugh you off the phone.
Oh yes we will train up a load of people, buy the equipment, set-up manufacturing space off the production line, put the in the infrastructure and paper work for a container of tv's. Sounds a great idea

Once it is set up and you are doing it on every TV coming off the production line it is cheap. Initial set-up is the expensive bit.