Monitor with 1 Billion Colors from HP

HP's billion-color monitor gets a price: $3,499

Hewlett-Packard Co. has released a monitor aimed at animators, printers, game developers and other professionals who want to know that the colors they see on a screen will be the exact same colors that appear in a printed product or on a movie screen.

HP says it DreamColor LP2480zx will deliver true colors because of its ability to display 30-bit color, which can provide up to 1 billion colors. Standard monitors use 24-bit color, making 16.7 million colors available per pixel. The 24-in. HP monitor includes a new LED backlight technology developed specially for it; it has a list price of $3,499.

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Monitor with 1 Billion Colors from HP

HP's billion-color monitor gets a price: $3,499

Hewlett-Packard Co. has released a monitor aimed at animators, printers, game developers and other professionals who want to know that the colors they see on a screen will be the exact same colors that appear in a printed product or on a movie screen.

HP says it DreamColor LP2480zx will deliver true colors because of its ability to display 30-bit color, which can provide up to 1 billion colors. Standard monitors use 24-bit color, making 16.7 million colors available per pixel. The 24-in. HP monitor includes a new LED backlight technology developed specially for it; it has a list price of $3,499.

Read the full article HERE

I'd still like to do some photo work on Toshiba's 9 megapixel W-QUXGA (3840x2400) monitor: babelfish translated page here

HP says it DreamColor LP2480zx will deliver true colors because of its ability to display 30-bit color, which can provide up to 1 billion colors. Standard monitors use 24-bit color, making 16.7 million colors available per pixel. The 24-in. HP monitor includes a new LED backlight technology developed specially for it; it has a list price of $3,499.

I wonder what the point of it is? From a quick Google search:

The problem is that nobody really knows exactly how many colors the human eye can see. The closest researchers can estimate is millions and millions. Scientific experiments have shown that humans can discriminate between very subtle differences in color, and estimates of the number of colors we can see range as high as 10 million.

If that's correct then the technology already produces more colours that our eyes can percieve, or am I missing something?