What do the vendor guide and Netflix guidance say about reference monitoring, scopes and the checks that catch grade failures?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S9, S10 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Both sources tie trustworthy grading to a calibrated external display. The Resolve 20 book says computer displays cannot guarantee delivery colour accuracy, lists reasons a deliverable looks different (OS colour management, display profile, wrong input space, wrong data level, mis-tagged metadata) and suggests grading HDR first when delivering several standards. Netflix's partner guidance (change log 2024-06-14) says a Dolby Vision title needs its final pass on a professional HDR reference monitor, consumer OLEDs only for review or pre-grade, SDR preview via an ACES output transform is acceptable for progress, and 8-bit review streams can band. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S9, S10 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S9: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S10: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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