Quote:which is higher than 24-bit color, starting at 30-bit or 36-bit and can go up to 48-bit. The new panels are able to display 36-bit color (12-bits per color channel), and 1000 to 4000 step gray-scales, producing fantastic gradients. Most LCDs today produce only 256 gray steps at most.
good stuff
sweeeeeeeeeet.......i literally got a semi-erection from this (although it probably was from the picture of that cute chick :wink: )
can you imagine it? a slow gradient of up to 4000 shades of grey?
RGB(4000,4000,4000) = 64,000,000,000
64 billion colors
3814% increase.
(if my estimates are wrong in any place i'm sure you wont wait to point it out :wink: )
Nice news. LCDs were out of my mind 'cause they didn't show the colours right, and I use the computer for graphical design, so I kept with CRTs (my current one is a huge 19" CRT with a picture so crisp that it's scary). Now it's time to think about getting a LCD
Yeah, HDR LCDs have actually been around a for a while now, but have been in the dark. I cant wait to see a large, HD, HDR flat panel television for my self. They will have stunning picture quality!
yeah, but imagine the price! :aah:
and i'd say that next to nothing is probably programmed yet to take advantage of the new capabilities.
but it's a nice window into the future =)
Anyone seen a 48bit graphics card? I think it's 48.
The problem is...it doesn't "out preform" anything.
LCDs generally have lower resolutions and *much* lower refresh rates. My CRT monitors can do 120Hz at 1280x1024 or 85Hz at 1600x1200. The average LCD has a 16ms (62.5Hz) refresh time, very few LCDs have better then a 12ms refresh time (83Hz) and the very, very rare are better then 8ms (125Hz).
Further, to get an LCD which will do more then 1280x1024 *and* 8ms is going to cost you an arm and a leg, maybe even a random organ. I can get a CRT which can do 75Hz 2048x1536 for about $500 (CAD). The same thing in an LCD would cost me at least $2500. Also, the LCD looks like ass when not in it's native resolution.
Finally, the extra colour resolution is fairly meaningless as the human eye can't distinguish as many as 2^48 colours.
Personally, I'm willing to move my desk away from the wall to accomodate the two large, clunky CRTs which cost me less together then a single LCD would.
Do these new LCD's still 'look ass' when you turn more than 1 degree away? Thats something i don't like about the current LCDs, along with all the ones i could afford were nowhere near as crisp as my CRT.
Thanks for sharing the link, I think I'll bookmark that site.
Glad to hear LCD's are improving. Hope the prices will improve with them. 1000101's comments are the same way I feel about LCD vs CRT.
I just bought a new LCD for home (Viewsonic VA721). I like it, but sadly only one screen resolution will work with my existing videocard without causing screen shimmers, no matter what refresh rate I set. My vid card is crap, but it was free and has built in TV tuner. So now I have to use 1024x768 instead of 800x600 (about time I go up a notch, isn't it)
I like LCD's, they take up little room, but Whenever I go to my dads house (who's using older CRT's) I'm like - wow this is a sharp and good picture - kind of wish I had still had this big old clunky monitor.
Wonder how much these will cost?
Yep, she's a cutie all right...
Quote:Do these new LCD's still 'look ass' when you turn more than 1 degree away? Thats something i don't like about the current LCDs
what!? have you seen a modern TFT?
mine has *cranes head around* 90 degrees of perfect colour and 180 degrees of near perfect colour (it goes slightly orangy when you go over 90)