Color Depth?

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I don't know if anyone has touched on this but is WP7 going to have increase color depth from 16bit?


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Been looking around and haven't seen anything on it yet. The ZuneHD is 16-bit color so if thats anything then we are still looking at the same color depth.

I'd like a least a 18bits (262k) color depth!!! but a 24bits or 32bits would be awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Knowing the 16bits color depth of the zune we don't need to count on it!

How is this on other competing platform like iPhone and Android?

I know Nokia has 16 million colors (24 bits at least?).

No, BB and WebOS is not competing platform

Windows Mobile has been the only smartphone OS that runs at less than 24-bit colour for several years, now. (Although on many phones, regardless of OS, the actual colour depth the LCD display is capable of showing is lower than the colour depth the OS works at internally).

I guess it's really not that big of a deal. Unless your looking at a color gradient on your phone you can't really tell that the color depth isn't as high as it should be. All the pictures on my phone look pretty good, but it would be nice to see them move it to 24 or 32bit to get with the currect standard on most devices.

16-bit color (2^16 = 65536 colors)
24-bit color (2^24 = 16,777,216 colors)
32-bit color is 16,777,216 colors also but with 8-bits added for non-color items such as alpha, Z or bump data.

Originally Posted by Kloc

Been looking around and haven't seen anything on it yet. The ZuneHD is 16-bit color so if thats anything then we are still looking at the same color depth.

Lol, thats really ridicules because I was actually expecting full color for the 6.5 update.

And for me the lower colordeph is easily spotable in videos, at least on my oled device.

Originally Posted by Kloc

All the pictures on my phone look pretty good

Software which uses DirectDraw overlays is capable of overcoming the 16-bit limitation. I think the HTCAlbum picture viewer may do this; some of the pictures on my HD2 don't look like they are subject to 16-bit limitations.

If this is correct then it isn't safe to use the quality of pictures viewed in the Album as a fair measure of the impact of 16-bit colour.