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Blu-ray discs may soon get billions of colors with new encoding tech
1/22/2014 4:02:00 PM
It's nice that 4K streaming is coming to match the onslaught of screens, but most media is still encoded with a "measly" 8-bits per pixel, rendering around 16 million colors. That might sound fine, but so-called deep color (10-, 12- or 16-bits per pixel) can drastically improve images by eliminating nasty color banding -- and many new HD projectors and high-end TVs already support it. Now, a company called Folded Space wants to bring the media in line, too. It's developed algorithms that could let Blu-ray disks encode 12-bit video in billions of colors without overly inflating the amount of data, while remaining backwards compatible with existing players. For all that to happen, studios would need to adopt the encoding tech and manufacturers would also have to incorporate it into new Blu-ray players. Those are pretty big "ifs," but the company is offering the tech free to content creators to get the ball rolling -- meaning you might soon get full fidelity in shows that actually merit it.
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