I think the real problem is perhaps that you are so used to thinking of a monitor as nothing more and nothing less than a device on which to proof prints using ICC aware software and that you are too stuck in that mindset.
No reason not to.
Non ICC aware applications simply have no way to show you color appearance consistently and correctly so I don’t worry about them. I might prefer they were color managed however.
I suppose that all the people who calibrate their HDTVs are just wasting their time then?
I guess you like to watch movies using whatever horrid default settings most sets are shipped with then?
You seem to forget that most images and colors on the web are in sRGB gamut and assume sRGB TRC and that most video and movies and TV stuff is in sRGB/REC709 gamut and that one can very well worry about them in non-managed apps considering that things like windows media center, powerdvd, externla blu-ray players, Internet Explorer, desktop, etc. etc. are not ICC aware since you know exactly what the source expects as the destination.
If have a regular monitor with no fancy internal LUT, you should still try to do what you can do bring it closest to sRGB+sRGB TRC or to sRGB+gamma 2.2 (or whatever matches video/tv/movie viewing best under the circumstances). Some programs still make use of the graphics card LUT so at least white point and TRC might be correct and for the ones that are not some things. When talking about HDTV instead some have fairly extensive calibration controls.
In this case the OP has a NEC PA, you can dial in a calibration inside the monitor and any program will make use of the calibration, anything you plug into the monitor will. In fact, as I've said, and even shown, a non-calibrated program fed sRGB gamut material will result in your seeing the material closer to spec than if you using ICC aware programs on some standard sRGB monitor that isn't even capable of hitting sRGB primaries and where the profile might not correct things as well as the PA series does things due to its extreme linearity and 3D high bit LUT.
You are discussing calibration and profiling which work hand in hand, then asking why applications that don’t understand ether should affect how we calibrate and profile FOR ICC aware applications. It is pointless.
When did I say that it affects how we calibrate for ICC aware applications?
Yes and I would submit that any combo of gamma, or for that matter calibration settings for the emulation could work equally well. You keep suggesting that the TRC 2.2 gamma is necessary, others are less good.
Wow when have I been saying that a TRC gamma 2.2 is necessary for sRGB image viewing??
I keep saying sRGB TRC is not that gamma 2.2 TRC is. You are the one who keeps saying gamma 2.2 TRC is good enough. And then when I start talking about sRGB TRC vs gamma 2.2 TRC you tell me that of course you know that sRGB isn't defined to use gamma 2.2 TRC but here you are again.
If you are, say are using IE to browse, i.e. a web browser than does not understand monitor profiles at all, then yes calibrating to sRGB TRC would be better since then it would show things with the proper response and it would look a little bit more accurate than if you had calibrated the monitor to gamma 2.2 and perhaps vastly better than if you left it set to native gamut.
(I also have a very sneaking suspicion that a few color aware apps appear to take a short cut if they spot an sRGB source image and seem to skip any TRC compensation steps and assume gamma 2.2 is good enough and assume your display is gamma 2.2, granted that may be on them for not carrying out all steps. But it could be a reason, if you use such programs, to sometimes also calibrate to sRGB TRC instead of gamma 2.2 or native gamut. I'm not sure what they are doing differently, but the tone response doesn't match what say photoshop or firefox or irfanview do and the author of one appear surprised to hear that sRGB images were not encoded as gamma 2.2)
You haven’t provided anything to prove that point. I keep saying that working with non ICC aware applications, all bets are off. Futz around with any settings you want so the non ICC aware app ‘looks good’.
For non-managed programs you to get everything as close as you can. If you can get the white point and TRC correct then at least do that.
With something like the OP has, a fancy monitor with a 14bit 3D LUT that can be programmed into a beautiful sRGB emulation if you then go and view an sRGB image using photoshop and then with IE, guess what they will look the same if you calibrated the mode to sRGB TRC.
The monitor carries out the mode so well that the image will look better in IE than it would in photoshop using a fancy monitor profile on some whatever monitor, even.
If you set it to sRGB gamut, D65, gamma 2.2-2.4/REC 709 TRC or what not you can then view TV/movies in beautiful fashion, it doesn't matter if the player programs knows a single thing about color management. The set it perfectly calibrated internally to accept the video.
I told you, the previews are science fiction.
what previews?
They don’t know squat about the color space of a document. They don’t know squat about the ICC profile of the display. You might as well just futz around with all the goofy OSD controls and make the display look pretty and move on. A gamma setting is simply not worth considering.
Utter nonsense, tell that to an HDTV calibrator.
And in this case, regarding the OP, it's particularly nonsense since his monitor has such a near perfect emulation mode (the set can be 100% internally calibrated to match spec better than any regular monitor would do even using ICC aware software). If you feed it an sRGB image or DVD or bluray using a non-color management aware program it most definitely will look correct and not like some random choice.
That doesn’t change anything about viewing color in non ICC aware applications nor that a sRGB TRC is ‘better’ than anything else.
it does if the goal is to say use IE to surf images on the web, or use some 3D program that assumes sRGB display conditions, especially in his case, where the monitor can have all the rest perfectly calibrated on top of just the white point and trc.
if he is viewing a movie then he probably does not want to use it calibrated to sRGB TRC though and probably want to use the broadcast video mode. He may wish to setup in SV II a Broadcast Video mode with sRGB gamut, something like gamma 2.2, D65 (for TV/movies/video/certain games and programs) and then he may wish to setup an sRGB emulation mode with it set to sRGB gamut, sRGB TRC, D65 (for web browsing/some games and programs) and a setup a Native Gamut mode with native gamut, D65 and maybe gamma 2.2 or native gamma (for photo editing/viewing/print proofing in color managed software) or maybe even a special print proof mode where he programs the set to be closer to his paper/ink/printer combo (depends whether that or softproof in the software works better), etc.
