BDP S570 Deep Colour???

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Hi All

I have a BDP-S570 and am very happy with it. The only problem is that when watching something on dvd or on the Bravia Internet TV thingy the picture often looks a bit too dark and certain colours like red look too bright.

I have noticed an option in the settings called 'Deep Colour' but I am not sure what this is for or if it's even compatible with my TV (Sony KDL40S550).

Can anybody please help?

 

[Anonymous]

I am no expert but from what I have picked up over the years...

...Deep Colour is one technological way to improve the number of colours a medium utilises. It increases the bit length used to encode colour information. Most modern TV's use 8-bit word length but 10-bit and 12-bit are either with us already or are coming!

The increased word length means more info can be stored about colour and TV's can also exhibit more colours so smoother gradations of colour can be shown rather than the banding you get say on a subtley changing blue sky especially on animations. (I thought it was part of the animated style!)

My understanding is that the source data and all parts of the chain (the player and the TV) must be encoded or be able to pass on the extra data for this to work properly.

If your TV can be changed to 10 or 12bit but the source was not encoded as such, then your tv may exhibit an overly dark picture (where the blacks are 'crushed' and show no shadow detail). In which case change your tv setting back to standard or switch deep colour off.

The player might be able to output deep colour but only if the source material was encoded that way; bluray dvds are as yet not.

I think camcorders do utilise deep colour and/or xvYCC which is another but different technology to improve the colours in this field.

 

[Anonymous]

Cheers for that Shreddy.

I'll set my Deep Colour to off.

Modern technology eh?