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Does 10 bit color actually deliver a benefit if you have an 8 bit screen?
by nwallin 4y ago
Does 10 bit color actually deliver a benefit if you have an 8 bit screen?
- thrdbndndn 4y agoYes. You can dither from 10bit to 8bit to alleviate problems like banding. (You of course can just dither it first and save the result in 8 bit in encoded result; but that would dramatically increase bitrate).
- Avamander 4y agoThanks to chroma subsampling done with most encoded content, your 8bit screen can likely display way more than the usual SDR content contains. Meaning less banding and better dark scenes.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoa lot of the problem with compressing dark scenes is 8 bit already is throwing away a lot of info so the compassion takes a look and figures that since there isn't a lot of info, it isn't an important part of the picture and then procedes to gut it. 10 bit color means you start off with a much cleaner image which makes it easier for the compressor to do a good job