Calibrate color bar for SDI input?

To my understanding, you must calibrate your color bar for analog input but what about SDI (digibeta) input to fcp? since it's SDI I don't think we need to do it b/c when I open the vector scope & waveform up they all line up correctly.
thanks
JP
Message was edited by: JPNG
Message was edited by: JPNG

Your post gets my vote for the most confusing post of the year.
For the record: if you can monitor digital, phase(hue) is irrelevant but chroma level is important, as well as your white/black points. Therefore, yes, you must calibrate you monitor for white/black/chroma levels.

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