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max_wedge Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Australia PM, WWW
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On 2008-10-26 01:00:21, WhyBe wrote:
And just simply comparing pic-to-pic/screen-to-screen, I doubt anyone could see the difference.
I agree in practice that there is not much apparent difference, but imho pinguino2 maths is wrong.
Sure if you had a colour chart with all the colours lined up, then the X1 could show more colours. But all the display needs to show all 65000 colours is 65000 pixels in total (one pixel per colour). If you want to show more colours than 65000 colours then you need a display that has higher resolution. Both phones have more than 65000 pixels in total. Therefore iphone will be able to show more colours (depending on image complexity).
I might be wrong, I'm no expert, but that makes sense to me.
In practice, because iphone has only 150000 odd pixels, it will often have to drop pixels from an image (for example if the image has more than 150000 individual colours, then obviously it won't be able to fit all colours). Also, it's rare for images to actually have millions of colours. I checked a few of my DSLR images and most have between 100,000 and 300,000 colours.
I think in practice the difference will be negligble, but there will be times where an iphone display will be able to show more colours (and therefore less visible banding)
Thanks for posting those.
The video is disgusting. WAY too much compression. Imho VGA would be better at 15fps if it meant they didn't use so much compression. This is 3GP quality not mp4 quality. Completely useless.
I wonder if you would be nice enough to show us a qvga sample?
The pictures are okay, not fantastic, but better than I was expecting.
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rontysee Joined: Oct 02, 2007 Posts: 77 From: India PM |
I dont know at what settings did rodin69 record videos but the video at modaco.com is far superior and of gr8 quality.
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max_wedge Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Australia PM, WWW
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well that's a relief.
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AbuBasim Joined: Nov 04, 2005 Posts: > 500 PM |
On 2008-10-26 02:26:29, rontysee wrote:
I dont know at what settings did rodin69 record videos but the video at modaco.com is far superior and of gr8 quality.
The X1 is SE's first phone capable of recording VGA video. Hurray!
Shame that the sound is only 8kHz mono.
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WhyBe Joined: Apr 02, 2008 Posts: > 500 From: Ohio, USA PM |
There should be three encoding formats: h.263, mp4, h.264@15fps all at VGA. Is this true? |
pinguino1 Joined: Aug 20, 2008 Posts: 174 From: New York, USA PM |
@max_wedge
The math is right Max. let me explain:
The original question was that a 65000 color palette would show bands in full gradient screen from dark blue at the top to light blue at the bottom and that a 16 million color palette would not.
On the Xperia that would be 800 LINES of 800 different blues.
On the Iphone that would be 480 LINES of 480 different blues.
Assuming that the first dark blue and last light blue are the same on both phones, that means that the Xperia will have in between 320 shades of blue MORE than the iPhone. This Difference is NOTICEABLE it is almost HALF! the number of shades.
But you are right if we talk about pictures. Every picture will be differente in tonality and number of colors. But which one will look better is another topic beyond this post: DETAIL vs COLOR. but quickly think about this:
A very complex detailed and colorful object in one square inch of screen.
the XPERIA will be very detailed object with 96000 pixels with a max of 65000 colors.
The iPhone will be a more blurred object with 26000 pixels and just 26000 colors (!?)
So the answer is: depending of the type of picture.
But what is really wrong is your statement:
... "If you want to show more colours than 65000 colours then you need a display that has higher resolution"...
I'm not blaming you on this one because I'm sure you didn't mean to say that.
Obviously HIGHER RESOLUTION doesn't make more colors. If your palette is 65000 you can not have more than 65000 doesn't matter what resolution.
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@Michka.
You wrote:
..."How many shades of grey with a 16 bits screen?
Ahem.... 32!
With a 24 bits screen?..... 256. "...
Ahem... That's totally wrong.
I going to let you tell me how many shades of gray.
No binary math here, just comon sense:
QUESTION:
In your opinion how many shades of gray are in a palette of more than 16 million colors?? (exactly 1677216 colors)
BTW let me mention this. a full color palette with shades next to each other can ONLY be described on a tri-dimentional space. (topic for another time)
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WhyBe Joined: Apr 02, 2008 Posts: > 500 From: Ohio, USA PM |
On 2008-10-26 02:15:33, michka wrote:
Now, let me think..... Suppose you want to look at a black and white picture.
How many shades of grey with a 16 bits screen?
Ahem.... 32!
With a 24 bits screen?..... 256.
Which screen will show the most banding? On which screen will the same B/W picture show best?
Not completely true. Read the first paragraph.
Math aside, I seriously doubt if anyone could tell the difference between a 24bit/18bit/16bit image.
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koto Joined: Sep 18, 2006 Posts: > 500 PM |
@Pinguino2
Thank you for detailed explanation. For me it is enough to know that in practice the difference is not noticable. Otherwise it would bother me  |
norti Joined: Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 32 From: Budapest, Hungary PM, WWW
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On 2008-10-26 05:05:11, WhyBe wrote:
Math aside, I seriously doubt if anyone could tell the difference between a 24bit/18bit/16bit image.
It may be strange, but there are people who can hear the difference between 192k and 128k mp3s and there are who can see the difference between 16 and 24 bit Most of the people don't, but there are many who can. |
JD4341 Joined: May 30, 2006 Posts: 62 PM |
On 2008-10-25 22:03:05, Jah wrote:
I suspect the Vodafone devices may have a different ROM given all the rumours about Vodafone network issues delaying the launch - has anyone already got a Voda X1 -please check the ROM version/date.
On my VODAFONE device I have the following:
ROM Version 1.02.161.7
Rom Date 09/17/08
Radio vaersion 1.06.25.29
Protocol version 52.43.25.24u
ExtPkg version ****
I didn't see 'Extpkg' version listed in Masseur's screen shot so I left the numbers blank incase this was a security issue ( I am new to WM!). But as this a VF FW would ExtPkg just mean extention package? Anyway there is the ROM info for those that are interested.
On my VF device none of the actual VF stuff works. I can get on to other web sites fine but not vodafonelive, vodafone find and go etc. Not yet tried customer services as I am still finding my way around.
The Google panel has been replaced by a VF panel...you can still access google from here aswell as the VF services (that are not working for me). Also found that the 'Design' Panel is missing from the VF version.
Still playing...
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pinguino1 Joined: Aug 20, 2008 Posts: 174 From: New York, USA PM |
@ WhyBe,
Thanks, something new to me.
So when working with grays it doesn't matter if it is 16 bits or 24 bits.
If Photoshop let me pick from a palette of thousands of grays only 256 will be displayed and stored.
Thanks, you always come to the rescue.
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JD4341 Joined: May 30, 2006 Posts: 62 PM |
On 2008-10-25 21:33:28, gforce23 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 18:56:35, JD4341 wrote:
I was a bit scared that the X1 would be a lot bigger than my P1i but your pic has laid those doubts to rest. Thanks.
No problem...smaller but heavier |
WhyBe Joined: Apr 02, 2008 Posts: > 500 From: Ohio, USA PM |
On 2008-10-26 08:01:05, norti wrote:
On 2008-10-26 05:05:11, WhyBe wrote:
Math aside, I seriously doubt if anyone could tell the difference between a 24bit/18bit/16bit image.
It may be strange, but there are people who can hear the difference between 192k and 128k mp3s and there are who can see the difference between 16 and 24 bit  Most of the people don't, but there are many who can.
Nah, they're just guessing. |
max_wedge Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Australia PM, WWW
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On 2008-10-26 05:02:24, pinguino2 wrote:
@max_wedge
The math is right Max. let me explain:
The original question was that a 65000 color palette would show bands in full gradient screen from dark blue at the top to light blue at the bottom and that a 16 million color palette would not.
On the Xperia that would be 800 LINES of 800 different blues.
On the Iphone that would be 480 LINES of 480 different blues.
Assuming that the first dark blue and last light blue are the same on both phones, that means that the Xperia will have in between 320 shades of blue MORE than the iPhone. This Difference is NOTICEABLE it is almost HALF! the number of shades.
But you are right if we talk about pictures. Every picture will be differente in tonality and number of colors. But which one will look better is another topic beyond this post: DETAIL vs COLOR. but quickly think about this:
A very complex detailed and colorful object in one square inch of screen.
the XPERIA will be very detailed object with 96000 pixels with a max of 65000 colors.
The iPhone will be a more blurred object with 26000 pixels and just 26000 colors (!?)
So the answer is: depending of the type of picture.
But what is really wrong is your statement:
... "If you want to show more colours than 65000 colours then you need a display that has higher resolution"...
I'm not blaming you on this one because I'm sure you didn't mean to say that.
Obviously HIGHER RESOLUTION doesn't make more colors. If your palette is 65000 you can not have more than 65000 doesn't matter what resolution.
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You quoted me out of context. I was talking about a hyperphetical display of only 65000 pixels, to illustrate a point. I didn't say that a higher display automatically gives more colours. But if you have a display that can only display a total of 153600 pixels (ie 480x320), then you need a higher display resolution to show more than 153600 colours (that's assuming each pixel is a different colour).
For example if an image has 160000 different colours, then you wouldn't be able to fit all the colours on a 153600 pixel display. (you can have no more than 1 colour per pixel)
So even if iphone can display 16million colours, it can only display AT MAXIMUM 153600 different colours at one time. However this is more than the X1 which can only display 65000 (approx) colours regardless of the resolution. imho this does make a little difference, though as has been pointed out not everyone can tell the difference.
I can (I just produced two images in different colour depths from the same original), however if you didn't have the two side by side I wouldn't notice.
So I'm not arguing that iphone images will look better, the difference is very small. But your maths isn't 100% correct. Unless of course you want to produce a colour chart with 800 neatly lined up shades of blue Then you would be right.
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Ratti3 Joined: Sep 11, 2005 Posts: 46 PM, WWW
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This is for those asking about the colour depth on the SE X1 screen
have a read here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/windows[....]archive/2005/09/07/462187.aspx
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