Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Muddiest Post 4

Muddiest Point for 9/27

In relation to our discussion of digital image compression, I have recently seen commercials for a new HDTV from Sharp called the Quattron that claims to use a "quadpixel" display utilizing conventional RGB subpixels and adding a Y(yellow) subpixel. It also claims this will enable them to display "trillions" of colors. Given the limitations of the human eye, how much of that difference will we even be able to visually comprehend, and if the files being broadcast to that tv are compressed with a method that uses RGB, can they even add a Y enhancement on the decompression end? I'm confused about how that would work.

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