10 bit display.do i need one?

[iorhld]

Hi,

I was wondering if a 10 bit lcd be of any good, in terms of preventing banding in 8 bit video source as opposed to 8 bit LCD.Is there something called interpolation of color in 10 bit lcds.

I am using wide gamut B+RG auo17ed on my dell xps 15 considering it a 6bit+FRC i see a lot of banding while watching movies.As i am already up for an upgrade should i just go for something with IPS display or go all the way for something like dell precision or hp elitebook.Primary usage is watching movies, bluray 1080p and sometimes off the net compressed files.

 

[Pottuvoi]

Hi,

I was wondering if a 10 bit lcd be of any good, in terms of preventing banding in 8 bit video source as opposed to 8 bit LCD.Is there something called interpolation of color in 10 bit lcds.

If source has banding there's nothing dispay can do to help.

 

[cantholdanymore]

If source has banding there's nothing dispay can do to help.

+1

 

[iorhld]

Thankyou.

 

[Kippa]

I thought the video from Blurays are encoded with an 8bit depth with a greyscale of 256 shades of grey? Do Blurays actually come with a 10bit depth?

 

[blackened23]

No, you do not need a 10 bit wide gamut display. It should be mentioned that 10 bit output has many pre-requisites which are generally only accessible to professionals whose work requires it, such as photo and video editing. This also ties in to the reason why wide gamut IPS monitors are very expensive, with even the cheapest ones being around the 800$ mark. Many are several thousands in cost.

First and foremost, you cannot get 10 bit color output without a professional quadro, firepro, or Tesla GPU. Consumer GPUs such as Geforce and Radeon only support 10 bit color through D3D, which is rather worthless - this has zero uses. The applications which need 10 bit output (think Premier, 3DS max, Adobe Suite) all require specific firmware and software support from application multi-thousand dollar GPUs. There are no other applications which are color managed or even support 10-bit color via Direct3D.

So the short answer is, no. You cannot benefit from 10-bit color. Blurays do NOT have 10-bit wide gamut color depth.