10-bit Color Visual Support Lands In Mesa

[pal666]

About time?
Didn't SGI IRIX have this two decades ago?

how many sgi irix boxes do you have at home?

[darkbasic]

Widevine DRM is only supported up to 1080p, so no.

Uh? I thought the max resolution supported was 720p, only IE had 1080p...

[Wheelie]

while not "cheap" I got my Philips BDM3270 (31.5" 2k) for ~$500AUD - so it is not super expensive either

BDM3270 is only 8bit+FRC, not 10bit

[unixfan2001]

Uh? I thought the max resolution supported was 720p, only IE had 1080p...

My bad. You're right, of course. I got my "p's" wrong here. Lol

[syrjala]

Perhaps, but Intel hardware didn't have the ability to output it until recently. AFAIK it has been working for a long time in FBOs.

For Intel GPUs >8bpc display support has been present in the hardware since 2008-2009.

[carewolf]

For Intel GPUs >8bpc display support has been present in the hardware since 2008-2009.

My SandyBridge from 2011 does not have it. I believe they have been able to work on the format internally, but just haven't been paired with display-port standards that could actually output it.

[boxie]

BDM3270 is only 8bit+FRC, not 10bit

I do believe that is wrong.
According to TFTCentral (and other sites by the looks of it), the Philips BDM3270QP uses a 32"WS AU Optronics AMVA (M320DVN01.0) panel.

That panel is a 10bit AMVA panel (see table below for stats)

Size

Manuf

Tech

Module

Resolution

Response Time (ms)

Contrast Ratio

Brightness (cd/m2)

Viewing Angles (H/V)

Colour Depth

NTSC / Colour Gamut

Adobe RGB coverage

sRGB coverage

Backlight

Refresh (>60Hz)

Aspect

Curve

Notes

Manuf Year

32"WS

AUO

AMVA

M320DVN01.0

2560x1440

12ms

3000:1

300

178/178

1.07b (10-bit)

79%

78.0%

100.0%

W-LED

16:9

2013

[coder]

About time?
Didn't SGI IRIX have this two decades ago?

I wouldn't be surprised, as TV postproduction houses used up to 10-bit and digital film editing used 12-bit log or 16-bit linear - even in the 90's.

In fact, I've been hearing about >= 10-bit on PCs for probably a decade? For instance, I see the Radeon HD 5000 series of 2010 even supported 12-bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series

[coder]

how many sgi irix boxes do you have at home?

Wrong question. The relevant point would be how many SGI boxes one had at home, two decades ago.

[syrjala]

My SandyBridge from 2011 does not have it. I believe they have been able to work on the format internally, but just haven't been paired with display-port standards that could actually output it.

No, it's definitely there. For DP we can do 6,8,10,12 bpc, and for HDMI 8,12 bpc.