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Thanks for the understanding and support. Just to explain things a bit further. If it was a perfect world, where our images can contain all visible colors (DSLR raw-s are already pretty close), all our displays show all visible colors, all our projectors show all visible colors and all printed images reflect all visible colors - all our output devices can show all visible colors. (Probably using 16-bit Lab color model and some new printing technology.) Only in such perfect world we would not need color management. Because everything is correct by default. In reality with different devices and different image sources all having different color capabilities do not expect, that color management will make the same image look precisely the same on all output devices. No, that is not the case mostly. Yes, the reds are and still will be reds and blues are blues etc. But there are differences. What color management does? The color management engine knows both - the input image colors and the output device color capabilities. Now the input colors are "translated" into output device color space so that the relative intensity of colors is retained as close as possible. Tonal gradations are retained as close as possible. Color hues are retained as close as possible. And so the overall look of the image is presented as close as output device is capable of. Sometimes as close as possibe may mean a perfect match. Few case scenarios. The presented images have equal or smaller color gamut than that of the output devices. In this case color management makes all images look the same on all output devices. You will see sRGB images same on all calibrated sRGB or AdobeRGB (or larger) capable devices. You will see Adobe RGB images look the same on all Adobe RGB capable devices. And if you show the sRGB image on two displays, one having sRGB gamut and another Adobe RGB gamut, they still look the same. Without color management smaller gamut input color would be oversaturated on larger gamut output device. Those who switched from sRGB monitors to Adobe RGB monitors suddenly realised, that desktop icons got very "sparky" because desktop icons are not color managed.The presented images have larger color space than output decive has. Now the displayed image has different (absolute) colors on different devices with different gamuts, but color management takes care, that the image preceptual qualities are retained. Adobe RGB images do not look washed out on smaller gamut devices like they used to be without color management. And sRGB images would not look washed with projectors and displays having even smaller color gamut (plenty of them around).The output device has irregular color gamut. Again, color management knows it and makes best out of it. Without color manamegent, some colors look oversaturated, some are muddy.Lately Canon announced the development of very interesting projector. http://www.canon.com/news/2015/sep01e.html Probably it will initially have a price of the medium-sized car. But things look promising. When we will get color management right, we can start to wonder about presenting details where PTE engine is already very good . All the best, Urmas