5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color

Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by adcsd on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @02:48AM (#10498154)

My system info says 32-Bit Color. Is this incorrect? http://imgur.com/PAk8K8e

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by jacobolus on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @02:51AM (#10498159)

ARGB8888 = 8 bits each of alpha, red, green, blue. If you had 10 bits per channel it would say ARGB2101010 http://i.imgur.com/ds1t6HV.png

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by twsted on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:24AM (#10498397)

This is really confusing.

ARG8888 and it says Pixel depth: 32-bit Color

ARG2101010 and it says Pixel depth: 30-bit Color

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by Rexxar on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:58AM (#10498962)

I'm waiting for the first real 32-bit colour monitor, the one that becomes transparent when alpha is set to zero.

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by PudgePacket on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @01:29AM (#10504932)

So you'd actually see through the monitor to the internals our out the other side? That would be interesting :)

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by 9point6 on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @07:04AM (#10498986)

I wonder why it's not ARG10101010 for 10-bit RGB + Alpha

Surely it's not actually 2 bit Alpha in ARG2101010

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Re:5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color by makomk on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @01:01PM (#10501264)

The alpha part of the framebuffer isn't actually used because monitors don't support an alpha channel, it's just convenient to pad everything out to 32 bits anyway.

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