http://www.hdblog.net/2007/01/05/hdmi-dvi-and-you/ HDTV Home Theater and Television Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.hdblog.net/2007/01/05/hdmi-dvi-and-you/#comment-22819 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:10:04 +0000 http://www.hdblog.net/2007/01/05/hdmi-dvi-and-you/#comment-22819 Sure, the color stored on DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is 8-bit, but any post-processing generates more color data. For example, if the DVD player scales from one resolution to another, it might create a scaled pixel that is 20% of one pixel and 80% of another pixel. That will have to do rounding and 16-bits per color data is a lot more precision to hang on to than 8-bits. Sure, the color stored on DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is 8-bit, but any post-processing generates more color data. For example, if the DVD player scales from one resolution to another, it might create a scaled pixel that is 20% of one pixel and 80% of another pixel. That will have to do rounding and 16-bits per color data is a lot more precision to hang on to than 8-bits.

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