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With 12-bit, that's 4,096 shades and over 68 billion colors."When you watch a movie digitally projected in a multiplex, chances are it has the same 1920x1080 resolution as Blu-ray. Part of the reason: The theatrical presentation uses 12-bit color (10-bit for 3D).
It would, in effect, be a whole new format incompatible with any current disc player." No matter what your HDTV can do, you're probably never going to see any 10-bit content on it.
Film, being analog, doesn't have a color-depth limitation and can theoretically offer an infinite number of colors.So where's the hype. If a studio released a movie on Blu-ray with 10-bit color, that disc wouldn't work on any existing player.
In response to Urban Modernist concern over banding and 8 bit processing, I ran across this at PC World's website, Answer Line Blog, dated 9-14-2009:With 10-bit color, you get 1,024 shades of each primary color, and over a billion possible colors. But a Blu-ray disc won't look anywhere near that good projected onto a 50-foot screen.
Neither broadcast HDTV nor Blu-ray support deep color.
Boy, am I glad I did.This was our first HDTV and thanks to the reviewers here, they led me to the right choice. Next will be a Sony Blu-ray player. My HD source is Verizon FiOS and the highest quality output they have is 1080i.Setup was a snap. So I started watching the prices afer Black Friday last year. Installed the Verizon HD set top box, connected the HDMI cable, my audio out cable and bingo, I was watching high definition.
A 37" set was all I had room for in my limited space. I knew I had to act fast, so I grabbed one of the last ones I could find. Granted, I don't have another set to easily compare this to, but in my opinion, the picture quality is fantastic. There were only a few of the default settings that I had to change.The Sony may have been a little more expensive, but the results were well worth it. After reading the reviews here on Amazon, I knew this was the HDTV I wanted.
The price came down some as Christmas got closer, but still more than I was willing to spend.Then, in Mar 2009, I noticed from Sony's website that this particular model was no longer available - being phased out. Three screws and the base was attached.
I previously didn't watch too much TV, but since I received my new set I have increased my TV viewing.
And the sound from the speakers is very good if you dont have sepperate audio equipment. I use this 50/50 for TV and PC and I love it. All in all im am very happy with this TV and I dont think anyone would regret this purchase, but as I write this I wonder how long this model will even be availible because these Tvs are dropping in price and 37"ers are getting rare. The features, design, and over-all quality is IMO the best. Out of those the Westinghouse performed the best, I know its a cheaper brand but it was nicer than the others while it lasted(3 yrs) eventually had bleeding problem(white light comming through black sceens) The menus are grahically pleasing and easy to learn with enuff options to please anyone.
For the other Tv's I've had Westinghouse(2nd in quality, smooth pictures and nice color, perfect PC input and 1080p), LG( Very jagged and grainy, horrible banding, and PC input was terrible), and Samsung(Same as LG, very jagged and grainy, horrible banding, and PC input was terrible, also played sounds when powered on/off and had annoying white LED light at the bottom of the screen). Fisrt I'de like to say that I have and many different 37" lcd's in my home and this is by far the best. This Sony has great color and very smooth picture, with a very small hint of banding(faint lines on screen) like other reviewers have mentioned(This is not a problem when viewing high--def signals or PC). I used to think Sony was just over-priced and hyped, but now owning I am an absolute fan of the brand and willing to pay a little of a premium for thier products.
I had the tv within 4 days of ordering. I was very pleased with the lcd tv that I purchased from amazon. The picture quality is great and I am very happy with my purchase
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