24" iMac color gamut

Spent the last several hours searching for information on the latest 24" iMac display. Learned that the panel might be an H-IPS LCD. The 2007 model was an LG.Philips LM240WU2-SLB1, S-IPS, 8-bit unit but details on the latest are sparse.
I cannot find anything reliable regarding the color gamut of the display. I found one thread stating it is 92% of NTSC.
Has anyone measured the gamut or found information regarding this?
Thanks...

efenska wrote:
The 2007 model was an LG.Philips LM240WU2-SLB1, S-IPS, 8-bit unit
but details on the latest are sparse.
I believe the 2008 models use the same panel -- but to positively identify the
LCD in your iMac, cut-n-paste the following command line into Terminal.app:
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/\[^<\]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
Sorry, can't help with the color gamut question. I've never been able to find
any useful (and reliable) info on that panel, other than the thumbnail specs
on tftcentral.co.uk. However, their databases have conflicting entries; some
list it as S-IPS, some as H-IPS.
FWIW, [_LG.Philips' latest catalog|http://www.lgphilips-lcd.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/common/cmn000_je.jsp] has no mention of the term "H-IPS" but it
does have a small blurb on the merits of "Super IPS." I've never seen any
mention of "H-IPS" in an LG.Philips marketing or technical blurb.
Looby

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