No light based display is going to be the visual analog of CDs.
Todo, I don't think we're in kansas any more.
LED's may not provide negative green light or the fourth primary color, but they will definately introduce a much larger colorspace and every jpg, bmp, gif image etc. is going to be caught with its bits down.
Cave dweller's never fear - your shadows are safe here, just wear these glasses and you'll be safe. Take off the shades though and you're looking at a horse of a very different color.
This colorspace is important because it's the first major incompatability/split on the display/print side. Previously colorspace was an problem only for publishers because paper, LCD, and CRT all have a roughly compatable colorspace. Not so LED.
Some of us will expect to see a difference between the fire and the fire engine.
LED's have a *much* larger color space. This will expose the informational bancruptcy of current image formats like the year 2000 exposed COBAL.
When transistors and thus portable AM radios arrived, music mixes were carefully tailored to sound good through tiny speakers and narrow bandwidth transmission. Likewise almost all of the images we see on computers today have been tailored to look good on the inferior bandwidth or colorspace of the crt. Thus we have aquired the sloppy habit of throwing out all the information that we cannot currently display and/or using software which does.both film and digital cameras record colors outside the range of the crt
When the audio CD format was developed, it was designed to embrace the human ear (5 - 22,000 Hz) even though very few systems can achieve this range. Perhaps now we will see wide-spread adoption of human-centric images (i.e. Web browsers which can open PhotoCD files into the colorspace of the attached display.) Be it a greyscale WAP (for "What A Phony"), CRT, or FullColor (LED).
First of all - This Post is not Off Topic at all since a DNA lounge with an Adam's twist would be a fitting memorial. DNA would do well to twist in some increasingly missnamed trilogy referances such as uncertainty engine chai (42 cents) and so-long-sushi. I clicked both this story and the DNA link hoping it was true - Alas it refers to Genetics.
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Todo, I don't think we're in kansas any more.
LED's may not provide negative green light or the fourth primary color, but they will definately introduce a much larger colorspace and every jpg, bmp, gif image etc. is going to be caught with its bits down.
Cave dweller's never fear - your shadows are safe here, just wear these glasses and you'll be safe. Take off the shades though and you're looking at a horse of a very different color.
This colorspace is important because it's the first major incompatability/split on the display/print side. Previously colorspace was an problem only for publishers because paper, LCD, and CRT all have a roughly compatable colorspace. Not so LED.
Some of us will expect to see a difference between the fire and the fire engine.
When transistors and thus portable AM radios arrived, music mixes were carefully tailored to sound good through tiny speakers and narrow bandwidth transmission. Likewise almost all of the images we see on computers today have been tailored to look good on the inferior bandwidth or colorspace of the crt. Thus we have aquired the sloppy habit of throwing out all the information that we cannot currently display and/or using software which does.both film and digital cameras record colors outside the range of the crt
When the audio CD format was developed, it was designed to embrace the human ear (5 - 22,000 Hz) even though very few systems can achieve this range. Perhaps now we will see wide-spread adoption of human-centric images (i.e. Web browsers which can open PhotoCD files into the colorspace of the attached display.) Be it a greyscale WAP (for "What A Phony"), CRT, or FullColor (LED).
First of all - This Post is not Off Topic at all since a DNA lounge with an Adam's twist would be a fitting memorial. DNA would do well to twist in some increasingly missnamed trilogy referances such as uncertainty engine chai (42 cents) and so-long-sushi. I clicked both this story and the DNA link hoping it was true - Alas it refers to Genetics.