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Originally Posted by talbain /forum/post/12882478
never noticed anything like it on the us version of kong. where would i be looking for it in the color bar on sony discs? haven't noticed it there either
regardless, even if banding were present in these examples, i'd hardly think it would be a launching point for people to be clamoring for deep color support...
As for the King Kong (2005) there are differences in the US and UK ones, eg. the UK has more languages but no IME features (US has IME but less languages). I don't know whether there are differences in the bitrate given to the picture on the US ones - perhaps the US one has a greater bitrate?)
Also did you watch the entire end credits of King Kong (2005) especially at the point where they first appear? And you saw no banding or macroblocking at all? If so what type of HDTV do you have? LCD? (though it may only be a problem on the UK version
or both of my LCDs)
As for the Sony colour bar thing when I tried that option (it was hard entering whatever number you have to enter on my remote/player
) on my LCD 1920x1080 TV on one of the tests screens, the one that was greyscale only that seemed to go from black (grey ?
) to white, if I switched between the different AV modes on my Sharp Full HD TV there was what appeared to be banding near the left hand side of the screen, and the position of the banding changed with the different AV modes.
Also as someone else has said, adding 10 bit (or even 12 bit) support wouldn't greatly increase the number of bits you need to store on the disc (and you wouldn't need to store them on the disc as 'dithered' like they currently do) which should further improve the efficiency of the encoding. And you could have a dither option in your player if you wanted to use such an option if your TV wasn't capable of accurately reproducing 10 or 12 bit colour etc.