http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/ Engadget Comments for Sharp adds cyan and yellow to its RGB displays, laughs scornfully at magenta http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
This website will probably explain better: http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html]]>May 29th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
It isn't. If you discount most or the near black and near white colors it doesn't really leave you with many "see-able" colors. Who on engadget can discern the difference between 0,0,0, and 0,0,1?

Add in lack of gamut in blue and greens on RGB monitors and you'll quickly understand why this could be great progress.]]>May 29th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
This tech seeks to expand the flat spots of the RGB gamut to colours out of phase from each of the 3 emitted colours, not CMYK, which is not quite 1/3rd out of phase relative to RGB.

READ, GOOD:
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The image: http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/repspec/Cie-Chart.png shows all visable colours. If you pick three primary colours and draw lines between them you get a triangle and every colour inside this triangle can be reproduced on the display. Make that triangle into a pentagon and you can almost fill all the colour space...]]>May 29th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/it looks ugly.... makes me want to return to my 17" crt monitor..... :(

it also has this glowy color thing in corners, when the screen is all black.

it's a NEC 2690WUXi.... paid nearly $1000 for it..... :(
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White, on the other hand, is definitely something the solvent side (and maybe UV?) have on us. To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't implemented a white ink in favor of all the Lk, Lm, and Lc inks. I'm sure it would help towards a more consistent gamut on off white stocks, as well.]]>May 30th 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/05/19/hexadecimal-color-grey-88/
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RGB works in the additive model, where light is produced. CMYK works in the subtractive model, where light is absorbed. (That's why you may notice there's no RGB printers.)

/went to art school]]>May 29th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/]]>May 30th 2009 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
QFT!]]>May 29th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/Makes you wonder what kept them from thinking that up all these last years.



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+while they're at it, all of Sharp's displays will of course be LED-backlit IPS panels with Kuro tech licensed from Pioneer, right?]]>May 29th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
And just like Felixxx said, the packaging industry can benefit greatly from the use of a quality colour or textured stock, which can also compliment the product within.

And like KC - Enhance a Colour mentioned - the digital printing industry will help to maintain the use of paper every day because of what it can offer compared to the traditional offset litho machines.

I for one hope the print industry picks up again (really difficult times just now), and I know for certain there's thousands of graphic designers out there (In the UK alone) which are still inspired and appreciate lovely printed samples.

Just my thoughts about the paper industry of course; regarding the 2- colour displays, I don't have much of an opinion of it.]]>May 29th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
Incidentally, 8-bit isn't enough for some work since the banding is obvious to some of us.]]>May 29th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/Not that it isn't time to move to 10bit, I just know from personal experience that two monitors that show the same 8bit gradient can differ, and if you have the settings a bit wrong on an LCD it goes all haywire and it becomes pronounced, where on the same monitor if the settings are not messed it can be very smooth.
And on CRT's the graphicscard used also makes a difference (I trust and hope that doesn't happen often on digital displays, although drivers can do odd things to colors too).]]>May 30th 2009 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
http://www.dlp.com/projectors/brilliant_color.aspx]]>May 29th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/May 29th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/sharp-adds-cyan-and-yellow-to-its-rgb-displays-laughs-scornfull/
Have you not read _any_ of the helpful comments above? (The ones that nobody seems to read or +rank...)

K is black -- on an emissive display, you just turn all colors off -- then you got black.

M is on the line of purples -- with pure, deep red and violet primaries, you could get a pure magenta (or anything else on the line) by mixing only. Using typical red and blue primaries, you can get as close to pure magenta as you can to the extreme spectral colors, subject to the usual brightness/gamut tradeoff. You'll certainly cover typical printing primaries.

C and Y lie on seriously convex regions of the spectral curve, so adding them with similar saturations to the other primaries will substantially increase gamut, so they're actually useful.

(Oh, and the printing industry doesn't just use CMYK; expanding gamut helps with representing spot color -- in fact, I'm pretty sure high-end RGB monitors can already represent the normal CMYK gamut.)

Recommended reading if the above didn't make sense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticity_diagram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut]]>May 30th 2009 4:50PM