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everyone knows hd and retina they

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marketing terms that mean better image quality but they're only about the

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resolution or the fineness of the image

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see that right there that mess you're looking at is a high resolution hd image

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but with very low color depth color depth is incredibly important if you

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want to experience your content the way the creator intended color depth refers

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to the amount of data that can be used to indicate the color of each dot or

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pixel on your display one bit would be black and white two bit would be shades

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of gray and 8 bit allows a 256 color

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palette in short more bits of color depth bring translations into more colors that

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can be displayed so on the bits well there are challenges processing

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power on cpus and graphics cards used to be a bottleneck and while today they're

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fine for a high quality image every link

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of the chain needs to be high quality challenge number one is data storage and

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internet bandwidth Digital files with high color depth are really big to save

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space and bandwidth usually they get compressed websites like youtube

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streaming services like netflix and even your cable tv provider are all serving

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highly compressed video which negatively affects color fidelity you will often

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easily detect where the approximations are being made where the creator

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intended for the colors to blend smoothly together but instead you see

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blocks or bands of the same color

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because to save on infrastructure costs much of the data has been lost challenge

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number two is display let's say you py up for a blay of your favorite movie and

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then watch it on a cheap tv or tn panel monitor in this case the data is all

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there but your display is not capable of reproducing all those colors so you'll

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see the same block and color banding as before where the display is just

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approximating the as best it can right

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let me straight telling my ‏su when i

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was perfectly happy with it before and then you're following up by telling me

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there's basically nothing i can do about it without spending ach money anyway are you trying to make me unhappy no i'm not i

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know all of this and i'm still perfectly happy in you know canada here with my

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canadian internet connection and you know canadian netflix it especially

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doesn't bother me on small screens like on a phone or a tablet and in vibrant

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scenes with many varied colors it only really bugs me in dark scenes with many

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similar colors i mean see that right there the block and lack of detail in

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the bunny when he covered by the shadows is a perfect example of what we're

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talking about and just because we're aware of this and understand it better

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doesn't mean we have to change anything i just wanted to cover this topic for a

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while so that i can explain to folks way why their ht image doesn't look that

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great if they always look that great do want to do something about it they'll know what to

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do look for content that uses high quality codex and is encoded at higher

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bit rates the higher the bit rate or the amount of data per second in the

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video stream the higher the color depth is likely to be try higher quality

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content first before upgrading your display and use shadows as a quick and

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easy benchmark to see if it's making a noticeable difference and if it doesn't

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make a difference to you then that's great because there is a limit to what

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your eyes can see anyway before More color depth really doesn't make any

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difference speaking of shadows our

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featured audiobook from audible.com today is into the darkest ‏corner by

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elizabeth haes you can get it or something else for free by going to

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audible.com quicky linked in the video description and signing up for a new

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account it's an editor pick on audible it won amazon's book of the year award

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in 2011 so it ain't the newest thing out there but it's not like i was going to

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go through all 150,000 audiobooks they have to find

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another one that had shadows or darkness in the title for my segway now was i i

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mean i guess i could have gone with like heart of darkness or like book of

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shadows actually don't know if there's a real book of shadows it's just

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something that's in like every fantasy novel ever there's always like a book of

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shadows anyway i seem to have lost track of what i was talking about make sure

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when you sign up you go audible.com tech quicky so they don't cut me off then the

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only content i'd be able to afford to make for you guys would be low color

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depth you gross anyway like the video if

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