Jun 11 2008HP's New Monitor Rocks Out With Its Color Out, Can Produce Over A Billion Of Them
The HP DreamColor LP2480xz is a 24-inch LED backlit monitor that can display over a billion colors (~64x what a typical LCD monitor can do). Unfortunately they cost $3,499. But if you're an artist or someone who really values accurate color display, maybe it's the monitor for you. And speaking of art, I bet this thing can display the hell out of some porno. Am I right? Hells yeah. *high fives* This old CRT can't replicate a natural nipple hue to save it's tube. Nipples aside though, vagina. Bet it looks good on that thing.
Hit the jump for another questionable comparison vs. regular LCD and a couple other product shots.
HP DreamColor LP2480xz bedazzles with a billion colors, artists rejoice [dvice]
Thanks Charlie and Dr. Venkman, who would have thought that a billion colors even existed? Not me, I'm tone deaf.
Reader Comments
1. tokyocrunch - June 11, 2008 3:22 PM
I bet those color comparisons would look intense if my monitor could display them.
2. Billy Avenue - June 11, 2008 3:26 PM
how the hell can one put comparison pictures up online, when the layman's monitor can't show 1 billion colours? one picture just looks more saturated than the other.
bring back CGA!!!!
3. Ariella - June 11, 2008 3:34 PM
but my monitor can't display all those colors...so how is looking at a picture of it on my computer gonna help?
4. butterbee - June 11, 2008 3:36 PM
...and I'm pretty sure that a normal jaypegg can only represent 16 million colors.... anyone?
5. AlejandroLestad - June 11, 2008 3:37 PM
And how am i supossed to Compare colors if My monitor isn't able to Produce 1million colors? hu ?
thats just so stupid like Watching HD TV ads over the tv when i am using a
480p Television !
If i were able to watch how it is Suppossed To be a HD image on a Standar Television, then a HD TV will be useless
6. AlejandroLestad - June 11, 2008 3:38 PM
well, it seems everyone thinks the same, i should have read All those Comments up there, so i would not even botter writing my email...
7. stickeykeys - June 11, 2008 4:06 PM
yep, we're all thinking the same thing.
I've never understood the logic of such advertisement. I'll see a TV commercial trying to sell me a new TV by saying, "Look how great the picture is on this thing!" - and I think to myself, "Yeah, my old TV must be fine. That picture does look great."
8. Billy Avenue - June 11, 2008 4:16 PM
you know what else I'm thinking about? Tacos. That's right, tacos.
9. whistle - June 11, 2008 4:31 PM
Has anyone mentioned the fact that the monitors used to view this new technology can't accurately represent the color provided in the product?
No?
I sure hope somebody makes this brilliant point sometime soon.
10. rtyd6td - June 11, 2008 6:46 PM
ill explain it for all the retarded children:
the difference in saturation between the pictures u can see on ur desktop is the same as the difference would be between a normal monitor like urs and an uber screen, therefore the advertisement does give a reasonable representation of the actual product.
11. Diamon - June 11, 2008 8:27 PM
These (monitors) go to eleven.
12. bedot - June 11, 2008 8:30 PM
Hey, Nobody else has mentioned this yet but i don't know if this online picture accurately shows the colors of the tv because of blahblah blahdee blah i'm a big f***ing loser
13. anyone - June 11, 2008 10:19 PM
I'm not much an authority on this subject, you should ask someone else.
...I'm using an Hercule monitor.
One color to rule them all!
14. bs - June 12, 2008 1:12 AM
Comparison pics are complete BS. Increases in bit depth usually produce a smoother, not a larger gamut. The range of saturation in these new monitors is probably not much larger than el'cheap-o 'wide gamut' TN panels today but the gradation and color rendition of the same gamut is much improved. The monitors can do a bit of interpolation so you will see some improvement even though your video hardware can't send it billions of colors.
A better comparison would've been to take a smooth gradient and zoom in to show the lack of banding on the new panels.
15. Kelly - June 13, 2008 8:46 AM
Not to mention that the human eye is only capable of distinguishing, at most, ten million colors or so. Several experiments have been run with results from a hundred thousand to ten million - but even if the experiment is off by 100% it still doesn't come close to the "billions" of colors this monitor is supposedly capable of displaying. And no, graphic artists won't get a more accurate on-screen image, because no matter what it looks like on your monitor, it can print out differently. Printers are annoying, fickle things, and you will *always* have to do a test print to see what the colors are going to be.
16. Maersk - June 13, 2008 9:20 AM
lol...Gamut-like
17. Mamma Killer Night - June 13, 2008 7:25 PM
Cool, if you are not Sw-Dev.
18. guate6 - June 15, 2008 11:23 PM
#'s 14 & 15 said it best.
And yeah, printing is a bitch. I bet someone'll make a monitor calibrator for this thing that costs "billions of dollars."
19. rebrecon - August 15, 2008 3:32 PM
Its like acers monitor thats gona have 50,000:1 contrast- we cant detect that much, whats the point, buy a bright monitor with good pixels for 300 dlooars not 10 million.