HP Introduces First-Ever 30-bit, 1 Billion Color Display

justechn writes "I recently had the opportunity to see, first hand, HP's new 30-bit, 1 billion color LCD display. I have to say I am impressed. Not only is the HP Dreamcolor LP2480zx capable of displaying so much more than standard LCDs, but it considered a Color Critical display. This means if you work with videos or photos you can be guaranteed that what you see is what it is supposed to look like. With 6 built-in color spaces (NTSC, SMPTE, sRGB, Rec. 709, Adobe RGB and DCI), you can easily switch to the one that best suits your applications and process. At $3,499, it is too expensive to be a consumer level LCD, but compared to other Color Critical displays (which can cost as much as $15,000 and $25,000) this is a real bargain. This display was a joint venture between HP and DreamWorks animation. When I talked to the executives of DreamWorks, they were very excited about this display because it solved a huge problem for them."

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Re:Meh

[MarcoG42]

*WOOOOOOOOOSH*

Re:Registration

[countSudoku()]

Agreed! Plus, I tend to avoid all the sites that look like ***world.com, because they are mostly pages framed in ads and other garbage that makes for a crappy read of their usually low-tech articles.

On the topic, sort of: I'm glad HP is branching out in new directions away from gouging the shit out of everyone with their overpriced inkjet inks. Bastards. Plus, just between you and me, part of our shop uses these hunks of shit they call the SuperDomes, and they all blow. Nothing sucks harder than having to admin a huge box that crashes and has problems *consistently* enough that our official HP technicians are getting vocally tired of having to come out weekly to fix their crap hardware. So, I say:

Dear HP,
        Go ask Sun or IBM how to make better, cost-effective Unix products or just stick to the printers and, well that's about the only good product you make. Go figure. I'd tell this to you right to the faces of your sales droids, but they'd probably not understand it or take it seriously. Then again, how can I take your company, which schmoozes harder than their products work, seriously? There's a reason we call it the SuperDown. You're a very special company with a long history in calculators and printers and I'd hate to see you go the way of Gateway and Compa, scratch that last one. If you can at all manage it, try making an x86 version of HP/UX and releasing it for free before that part of your business (the UX part) becomes a tired, joke of the industry. Or, just switch to Linux like IBM did, rather than port AIX to x86 directly. If you want to be as relevant as a mainframe running hundreds of virtualized apache servers, keep staying the course.

Thanks,

-A Unix Admin who likes SAM, but it's no smit