Using two bytes per pixel in a color image. Up to 65,536 colors can be represented in the color palette. Most graphics formats provide 8-bit color or 24-bit color; however, graphics cards generally ...

It depends on what video card you have. If you have a 2MB S3 Virge DX or something like that, you might want to stick with 16 bit color because you might be waiting for a second or two for the screen ...

I've recently upgraded from a Voodoo 2000 (forced 16 bit color) to a Geforce 2 GTS which allows you to choose, and I can't honestly say I see a huge difference between 16 and 32 bit color depth. Like ...

Color accuracy went south at the introduction of LED-backlit LCDs, due largely to the extreme skew to the blue end of the spectrum that early backlights were prone to. Fortunately, the TV industry has ...

Embarking as the first active HDMI switch supporting video-data transfer rates up to 3.4 Gb/s, the STDVE003A supports full 16-bit color depth for a true HD picture. The device integrates an equalizer ...

Embedded GUIs are growing more elaborate day by day. Developers now have to contend with such arcana as a color palette. Another reader wanted to know how to pick the ideal set of colors in a color ...

Back in the hazy days of the early home computers, many of us would rejoice at running our first BASIC applications, some of us even built our own 8-bit system from a handful of ICs and felt elated ...

With modern consoles offering gamers graphics so photorealistic that they blur the line between CGI and reality, it's easy forget just how cartoonishly blocky they were in the 8-bit era. In his new ...

Scientists have developed a way to “paint” with DNA, creating 16 million colors to accurately reproduce digital images with 24-bit color depth. The resulting images are incredible, and represent not ...

Following yesterday’s mind-boggling demo of its rollable smartphone, the Oppo X 2021, the company is now teasing a significant upgrade for its next flagship series. As announced on the second day of ...