NEC 10bit billion color LCD display
By Dan Wu 
posted October 21st 2004 2:02AM
posted October 21st 2004 2:02AM
NEC hit us with a
one billion color display before, but that one only could
display a paltry 16.7 million at a time (bah! Don't waste our time, NEC!), whereas this 21.3-inch LCD display can show
over 1.7 billion colors simultaenously out of a possible 685 billion colors. For reals, yo. It uses NEC's
Super Advanced-Super Fine TFT with a viewing angle of 170 degrees and has a QXGA resolution of 2048x1536. Take that,
OLED!
Interesting that it can show 1.7 billion out of 10 billion colours at a time on the ~3 million pixels it has. Must be .. magic!
Bah, who needs so many colours anyway?
Let's talk about flexible screens! transparent ones! low-power ones! brightness!
Phew. Sorry. It is rather exciting, so many colours.
Ron.
www.ol-ed.com
Glen, I was thinking the same thing. Does anyone know how this adds up? Cause 2048x1536 = 3,145,728 pixels. I can't see how you could display more colors than that at any given moment.
You guys are right!
The time I waisted reading this is worth more than those billions of colors the human eye can't even see.
take that OLED?
Dan you need to do a little more research...
and read a math book!
Upon further news about this new wonder LCD display, one learns that in order to do it's color reproduction magic, it has a new rgb LED backlight! Amazing that LED comes to the rescue of LCD.
This display is great news. The main point is
that it is the first LCD display to support more
than 8-bit per color channels (at CRTs can do
that too). This color range is widely in use
for people working on films.
The question is, what kind of input does it
take? Analog-DVI could do it, but is there a
digital interface to it? I believe it is out-
of-spec with respect to DVI.
Does anyone know?