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What's deep color anyway?



This is a technological breakthrough to help the current thin televisions to offer the 12" ~ 24" deep color of older CRTs. Remember seeing your parents' generation of TVs, where a skin tone was deep orange, like the person was coated in Dorito dust? That was the color depth that only a good old American TV from the late 60s to about the mid-70s could muster. They don't make 'em like they used to. Those old CRTs were almost bursting with color, and if any of you had the gumption to pierce the side of the cabinet with an awl, you would have seen the room flood with color that would have soaked the carpet. There was a reason they weighed so much...color is much heavier than simple white light.

The problem is that as TVs get thinner due to market-driven reasons rather than technological reasons, their layer of color therefore must get thinner. With many TVs, turning on a strong fan near the TV will literally blow the color (Chrominance) layer off the TV, leaving only the deeper luminance layer underneath visible. The newer "deep color" standards allow the color photons to "hide" deeper under the glass, where they can cling to the luminance photons in protest to those aforementioned strong breezes, as well as a dog's wagging tail that might sweep some off the screen, a wipe from a Windexed paper towel, etc.

Without the deeper color options of HDMI 1.3, the rest of us will wind up turning up the chroma level more and more as the TV ages, until it's eventually B&W no matter what we do..... so it's a good option to wait for...

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