Pricing for the new studio-quality displays isn't yet available.Ĭrawford Del Prete, an analyst at market research firm IDC, predicted that the technology will eventually reach across HP's product line, but not until costs drop. But with CRTs disappearing, the need for development of this technology is growing. HP said that animators today use CRT displays because they do a better job than LCDs in calibrating colors. Even so, there will be benefits with using 30-bit displays. While it would be better if source media moved up to the more-detailed color display, Chinnock doesn't see that happening anytime soon. Most source media, photos and graphics are intended for 24-bit displays, so the new technology must extrapolate to create a 30-bit image. Whether the colors look more vibrant and saturated will depend more on the backlight technology HP uses, he said. "It will make the displays much more accurate in being able to display colors and grayscale properly," said Chinnock. you won't see that banding, that contouring, they call it. In very subtle changes of color, such as a sky displayed on an LCD television, "you will see these bands across the sky - discrete steps in the shades of blue, and that's because 24-bit is not quite enough bit depth to cover all this fine gradations of color." But with 30-bit color, "you can basically smooth that all. What 30-bit should do is give much better gradation between those levels, said Chinnock. But he said the 30-bit shouldn't really increase the color gamut of a display or the black levels of the display. HP isn't widely showing its technology, and Chris Chinnock, president of research firm Insight Media Inc., is among those waiting to see it.
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