But if the monitor is an aRGB monitor and can not be “changed” to an sRGB monitor via e.g. a LUT, then I can tell the software on my computer to restrict the colors to sRGB, and hence it can not use the full signal range (256 steps pr. color). Let me explain what I mean; when the monitor receives e.g. (R,G,B)=(0,255,0) it would show pure green, the green primary for aRGB which is outside sRGB. So instead the computer must send e.g. (0,220,5) to the monitor to have it display the sRGB green primary, and thus can not use the full signal range (256 steps/color), because this would take it outside the sRGB colorspace.
If the monitor has a LUT, then it would be able to be “transformed” into a “true” sRGB monitor, in which (0,255,0) would display the sRGB green primary, because the monitor would look up (0,255,0) and get e.g. (0,220,5), which would be sent to the panel instead.
Does this make sense, or am I totally off my rocker?
~Frank