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Apple unlocks 'billions' more colors in latest iMacs
The latest retina iMacs already display colors very accurately, but with El Capitan, Apple now uses their full potential. According to German publication Mac & i, the new OS X version outputs 30-bits of color instead of 24-bits. That means that you can potentially see over a billion colors instead of 16 million on 2014 or 2015 5K iMacs, according to tests by Mac & i, though it may also work on other models. The feature only supports Apple's Preview and Photos for now, but may come to Final Cut Pro and other apps that can take advantage of it.
NEC delivers new super resolution upconverting chip for 1080p HDTVs
Apparently already in a position to improve on its previous efforts, NEC has developed the µPD9280GM chip designed to expand low res images to 1920x1080 resolution with less blurring. Bettering the old uPD9245GJ by running at 150Mhz instead of the previous 108Mhz clock speed and expanding color quality from 24-bit to 30-bit "Deep Color," it also promises to do its super-resolution magic based on just one frame of image data instead of needing multiple frames and additional external memory. This chip will be going into mass production in July so regardless of how super-resolution compares to a true HD source, a wider (and cheaper) range of devices should be able to offer high quality image processing soon.
