http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=15797
回想起先前和Aletia offical在phpBB down的時候的 talk，就覺得自己英文真的要加強@@
不過總之為了釋疑，還是鼓起勇氣問下去了….
提出的問題是：Parhelia的10bit DVD decode，是做到怎樣的程度？
結果人家的問題沒回答，Matrox的人員反而去其他地方提了：
http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=15872
[quote]Ｑ：
Dear Mods,
Could you please help me verify some issue regarding what Parhelia’s 10-bit capability can and can not do.
1. When enable 10-bit GigaColor option under "Quality and Performance – Desktop" It is my understanding that "DESKTOP" will have the capability of displaying 1 Billion Colors, but application may still only able to display 16.7 million colors. (unless application itself support 10-bit color)
Am I correct here? Also, what exactly do you mean by DESKTOP? Why would DESKTOP able to display 10-Bit? Is it b/c Parhelia’s hardware capability?
2. Are there any software dvd player or media player that support 10-bit color playback at the moment? Even if there is such software exist, wouldn’t the video file itself originally encodec in 32-bit color dept? (What I mean by video file could be DVD Disc, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, RealVideo, or even QuickTime format files)
3. From Parhelia’s technical reference guide, it states that Parhelia has the capability of output to TV at 10-bit color depth. I assume this is hardware capability. However, shouldn’t software need to support 10-bit as well? Or this has already been taken care of at DESKTOP or Driver stage?
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Hi,
1 – You would need an application or a plugin that will support 10 bit display. To date, we have a 10 bit viewer that is a plugin to photoshop.
2 – nope, no media player is capable of displaying 10 bit. AFAIK, they’re all still at 24bit rgb.
3 – This is correct but in order to see what the hardware can do, software developers would have to make a plugin to interface with our hardware.[/quote]
….有點氣餒。