Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Sony monitor has "shut down" too. By shut down I mean that it isn't >> showing anything, and that I haven't opened it up to see if it can be >> repaired another time. So I went checking what is there in the market >> these days. I found out that most of the (cheap) LCD monitors are >> 6-bit/colour and use some algorithm to show other colours (CRTs are >> 8bit). There is a big difference if you see a photo on a CRT and then >> see the same one on a cheap LCD. If you want to have a good colours on >> your LCD, be ready to pay upwards of 150% than that of a cheap LCD for >> an 8-bit LCD. >> >> I have heard that Dells 2007WFP is 8-bit. >> >> HTH. >> > > Could you elaborate on the 6-bit / 8-bit bit a bit? When I do finally > get an LCD (probably in another six months or so, if I can help it), I > want to know about this. One of the main functions of our desktop is > Digikam (photos) so quality photo reproduction is important to us. >
6-bits/colour means the monitor can give you 2^6+2^6+2^6 colours = 262,144 where as an 8-bit/colour would mean it can give you 16,777,216 colours. With the 6-bit/colour they use some kind of dithering to reproduce 16.2million colours. (but if they are using dithering, why can't they produce 16.7m colours?) Here is a good article on this topic http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/6bit_8bit.htm HTH, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]