new hp display, over 1 billion colors

It is an IPS monitor.

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 1, 2010 – HP today announced its first 30-inch monitor to display a range of more than 1 billion colors, the HP ZR30w S-IPS LCD Display.
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Still, it looks awesome, and a great price!
 
oh, lol, i don't really follow monitors that much. still, i'd like to check one out sometime and compare it to a 16.7 million color monitor.
 
[-0MEGA-];1479184 said:
It is an IPS monitor.



Still, it looks awesome, and a great price!
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:facepalm:

didnt see that.

i wonder if it takes a more powerful videocard because of all the colors, or does that nor matter, just resolution?
 
joh06937 said:
oh, lol, i don't really follow monitors that much. still, i'd like to check one out sometime and compare it to a 16.7 million color monitor.
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It will be pretty much the same unless you do photo editing. Almost all images posted online and the majority of games, videos, etc. all use the popular sRGB color space, which these days all monitors can display. This is a wide-gamut monitor, so if you edit photos and use a color space such as Adobe RGB, then you will be able to make use of the added colors that this monitor can display.

You need to be careful though, because if you are viewing images in a non-color-managed application (such as IE I believe), then images will appear over-saturated.
 
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[-0MEGA-];1479203 said:
It will be pretty much the same unless you do photo editing. Almost all images posted online and the majority of games, videos, etc. all use the popular sRGB color space, which these days all monitors can display. This is a wide-gamut monitor, so if you edit photos and use a color space such as Adobe RGB, then you will be able to make use of the added colors that this monitor can display.

You need to be careful though, because if you are viewing images in a non-color-managed application (such as IE I believe), then images will appear over-saturated.
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And the majority of programs are not color managed, these types of displays are only best used for graphics editing.
 
bomberboysk said:
And the majority of programs are not color managed, these types of displays are only best used for graphics editing.
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My point exactly. By getting this monitor you aren't going to be seeing a drastic difference when playing games or watching movies, you will see a difference when editing photos using a color space other then sRGB, or doing other forms of graphic editing.

Firefox is a color managed program however.
 
[-0MEGA-];1479440 said:
My point exactly. By getting this monitor you aren't going to be seeing a drastic difference when playing games or watching movies, you will see a difference when editing photos using a color space other then sRGB, or doing other forms of graphic editing.

Firefox is a color managed program however.
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Yeah, thats the worst part about such great displays.Although, i'd have to agree yet disagree about one point-- IPS displays do have a slight advantage to TN panels in say, movies, due to their better blacks....but then you get the problem of everyone appearing as if they have a sunburn because its not color managed.
 
bomberboysk said:
Yeah, thats the worst part about such great displays.Although, i'd have to agree yet disagree about one point-- IPS displays do have a slight advantage to TN panels in say, movies, due to their better blacks....but then you get the problem of everyone appearing as if they have a sunburn because its not color managed.
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That has more to do with the contrast ratio then the amount of colors it can display, since black just means that the pixel isn't displaying a color.
 
[-0MEGA-];1479484 said:
That has more to do with the contrast ratio then the amount of colors it can display, since black just means that the pixel isn't displaying a color.
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True, but IPS displays generally have much better contrast ratios than their TN counterparts;)
 
bomberboysk said:
True, but IPS displays generally have much better contrast ratios than their TN counterparts;)
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Also IPS displays are generally built better and have less light leaks. Now a true LED display would probably blow both IPS and TN displays out of the water in regards to displaying true black.
 
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