Re:Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
by faeriechangling on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:18AM
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Lossy Data Compression is used on the Pro Display XDR and Apple doesn't seem to lose any sleep over it. DSC is quite good.
Re:Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:25AM
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There's also the fact that nearly all content has compression as part of its path to display anyway. Video & images are obvious examples, but also GPUs almost always render to a lossy compressed framebuffer as well. It just saves way too much memory bandwidth not to do.
So as long as 'transcoding' from GPU framebuffer compression to DSC is itself a mostly lossless process, there's realistically not even a quality hit from it anyway
If not, I'm guessing that example case is either using a lossy data compression or multiple cables running to multiple displays.