G1 Color Quality

I have a G1
If you go to Display Properties, Settings and look at Color Quality, under Highest (32 bit) … do you see little vertical color bands for each color shade, or a smooth transition from color to color?

I’m starting to notice when playing movies with scenes that are black, some pixilation in the black areas. Black should be black, right?

Thanks.
Joseph

 

is the movie copied????

 

if not, that is strange... that happens with my tv, but it's old

 

Yes, copied.

 

Well... i guess that explains it then eh?

...DOh

 

and therefore i guess u should also try playing other 'legit' movies and see if u have the same problem...?

 

Someone please answer my original question?:
If you go to Display Properties, Settings and look at Color Quality, under Highest (32 bit) … do you see little vertical color bands for each color shade, or a smooth transition from color to color?

Thanks.

 

In the Display Properties, the colors seem somewhat banded, in that it doesn't look like a perfectly continuous transition between colors. Having said that, I must add that the G1s display looks very pleasing to my eyes. I'm extremely happy with the colors, lack of light leakage, and resolution on this screen. Still, a black scene in a movie won't look as "black" as when a monitor is off. Furthermore, the pixelation you mention is most probably due to the quality of the video file you're playing. So far I don't see any reason to suspect your laptop.

 

it should be smooth transaction of colors, I know what you mean. Windows 95 have a color bars XP doesn't.

The black levels is hard to produce as truely black. If your room is dark, Black color will have "brightness level" level overlay it which makes it looks like white overlay. Even sony screen is the same. That's not a problem. If you want to see truly black just turn on some light in ur room and the color will change a little bit, u'll see better black color.

If you see vertical color thing in ur laptop, can yo take a screen shot of it and send to us? it may be incorect driver that the video can't produce the right color.

Press Print Scr and a FN button . THen go to paint , press COntrol V and paste the picture, save it as JPEG , upload to photobucket and paste link here we'll help you out.

 

Here is the screen capture:
Display Properties Link

 

Yes, mine looks like that too.

 

I'm glad someone else is in the same boat. Question is, is everyone else that owns a G1, or a few of us with bad driver or LCD?!

 

Keep in mind that "black" is never black in lcd's. The vast majority of movies, whether original or copied, will rarely have large areas that are true black - it is usually something in the deep, dark grey. You will see pixelation in this situation depending on exactly where the origin color falls in the videocard's color reproduction ability, in conjunction with the lcd's ability to reproduce color; if it's either right between a couple or is in a grey region that the lcd has issues with, you're likely to see what looks like pixelation. You'll see similar artifacts with tech like webcams trying to transmit smooth color variants like skin tone - this will frequently get pixelated because the card/lcd can't reproduce the extreme subtleties effectively and gets caught trying to do the best it can. This is why things like desktop and/or larger lcd's will be tested using a 256-step greyscale in addition to color reproduction for major reviews, to determine how well they reproduce all the colors in the deep grey-black range. Some are better than others, and it can be an issue in many lcds depending on the media source and resolution, and I wonder if this issue is what you're describing.