There seems to be quite a few people that have a LOT of TV knowledge... so here's an interesting question.
Old CRT televisions, being analog devices, didn't seem to have such sharp cutoffs between colours, or a type of halo effect when looking at a movie with shadows or bright lights (by halo effect, I mean the transition to white or transition to black seems to be done in bands where each band is of the same intensity. On the old CRTs, this transition was smooth with no visible bands of light intensity from light to dark. ) Is this a function of colour depth of the digital panel? LCD computer monitors seem to use an 18 bit colour depth which will produce around 262,000 colours or 24 bit that will produce around 16 million colours.
Colour depth is not really advertised on LCD or LED television panels though. So here are the questions for the experts on the board:
Old CRT televisions, being analog devices, didn't seem to have such sharp cutoffs between colours, or a type of halo effect when looking at a movie with shadows or bright lights (by halo effect, I mean the transition to white or transition to black seems to be done in bands where each band is of the same intensity. On the old CRTs, this transition was smooth with no visible bands of light intensity from light to dark. ) Is this a function of colour depth of the digital panel? LCD computer monitors seem to use an 18 bit colour depth which will produce around 262,000 colours or 24 bit that will produce around 16 million colours.
Colour depth is not really advertised on LCD or LED television panels though. So here are the questions for the experts on the board:
- Is colour depth an issue on televisions?
- Which TVs have the best colour depth or are they all the same?
- Is there a particular flat panel technology that gives better colour depth (TN vs IPS panels?) I'm kinda partial to IPS panels for the computer, but they are pretty pricey.
