thread: Is this banding? Is it normal for an LCD tv?
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Old 10-02-2008, 12:13 PM   #19
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Re: Is this banding? Is it normal for an LCD tv?
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Originally Posted by Nielo TM View Post
The liquid crystals on the LCD twist and turn 256 times to produce 256 shades of color, which is equal to 16.6 m colors, which is equal to 24bit color total (8bpc). In order to produce 10 bit color, the crystals have to twist and turn 1024 times to produce ~1 billion colors (30 bit in total), this is however near impossible to achieve and not worth effort. Especially since OLED and FED are just around the corner.

Very interesting...I was looking at some lcd's in a shop the other day they where philips cineos and on the sticker around the tv it claimed to have 4 trillion colours, whats that about?
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