Comments on: 260,000 Colors BD (Before Dithering) http://isource.com/2008/03/31/260000-colors-bd-before-dithering/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:38:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: McIntosh http://isource.com/2008/03/31/260000-colors-bd-before-dithering/#comment-29457 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:38:05 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/apple-news/260000-colors-bd-before-dithering/#comment-29457 Hi there,

i have a 24-inch (yes, twenty-four) iMac from April 2007 and it seems to have the same dithering problem. I’m not 100% sure but when I paint a fine gradient from white to black, my display shows visible color stepping about every 10th pixel. So my iMac becomes quite unusable for webdesign or photographic work… 🙁

cheers
McIntosh

]]> By: Mat Pancha http://isource.com/2008/03/31/260000-colors-bd-before-dithering/#comment-29456 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:28:37 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/apple-news/260000-colors-bd-before-dithering/#comment-29456 As I said in the other article, if you switched the company name from Apple to Microsoft, we’d have people cheering the lawsuit from the sidelines.

The fact is, many people buy these machines b/c of the reputation of great color matching, for professional uses. I would rather they have been upfront about the colors instead of putting a marketing spin on it by calling it millions of colors, but leaving out the dithering piece.

End of the day, I still love my MacBook Pro, its a great screen, but when I’m doing photo work or video work, I don’t rely on LCDs, I use a CRT. We didn’t switch to LCDs/Plasmas because of lack of quality from our old tubes, it was the size.

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