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electrictroy · 07-07-2008, 10:42 AM

The reason the "color banding" exists is because the DVD or Blu-ray encoding machine tried to reduce bit usage from 24 to 16 bit to save space.

That flaw could be eliminated by using less compression. i.e. No need for 48 bits.

07-07-2008, 10:42 AM	#7
electrictroy Wii 480p looks good to me Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,895	The reason the "color banding" exists is because the DVD or Blu-ray encoding machine tried to reduce bit usage from 24 to 16 bit to save space. That flaw could be eliminated by using less compression. i.e. No need for 48 bits. __________________ TV Band/whitespace Devices will block my Baltimore/Philly stations. No more channels 2,3,6,10,11,12,13,17,35,45,57,61,65