Apple settles the amazing multicolor lawsuit

C|Net ^ | Mar 26th 2008 | C|Net

[N. Theknow]

I suffer from the same issue. Although, I wouldn’t really use the term suffer. That is, unless I’m dating one of them. Then suffering comes into play sometimes.

My wife also only sees in three colors.

Green, Gold and Chocolate.

[domenad]

Ahh, I thought they meant six bits per pixel, not per color plane. Makes sense. THanks to you and the others who answered me.

[CarrotAndStick]

LCD colour monitor gamut is a function of the backlighting that it is equipped with. Newer laptops use LEDs, whose emitted spectrum is better suited to display a wider range of colours than the ones equipped with a fluorescent tube-based backlighting.

[SeaHawkFan]

Isn’t it red, blue and yellow?

[HAL9000]

I was referring to the screen buffer memory circuits - but I may have made a couple of incorrect assumptions.

The MacBooks screen buffer may use shared memory in the main RAM rather than separate memory. And the screen buffer probably stores the data as 24 or 32 bits per pixel anyway, and the screen circuitry just ignores the two least-significant-bits per sub-pixel. Six-bit subpixels cannot be packed in memory very efficiently, so the screen buffer might as well use a full byte for each subpixel, especially since memory is so cheap nowadays.

[CarrotAndStick]

Ahh, thanks!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

What a waste. It’s long established that men see only nine colors: red, orange, green, blue, yellow, purple, brown, black, and white.

I only see three.

Blonde, brunette and redhead.

For the life of me, that sounds like something that would come out of Dean Martin's mouth in a roast. Good show, my friend, good show.

[vollmond]

I only see three.
Blonde, brunette and redhead.

You're not hitting the right clubs ...

[dan1123]

Isn’t it red, blue and yellow?

Only in a subtractive color palette--and even then, it is more common to use magenta instead of red, and cyan instead of blue.

[Hazwaste]

I wonder how many angels dancing on the head of a pin an Apple could display.

[SeaHawkFan]

Thanks for the info.

[Red Badger]

Can’t we all just move on past this “color” thing?.........

[thulldud]

Blonde, brunette and redhead.

And they only see one color: green....

[N. Theknow]

And they only see one color: green....

...and gold....and chocolate.

[rond]

Isn’t it red, blue and yellow?

Red, green, blue.

[Mariebl]

Isn’t it red, blue and yellow?

Red, blue, and yellow when you're mixing paint. Magenta, cyan, and yellow, when you're running a printing press. Red, blue, green, when you're checking out a computer screen. Somehow, it all works out.

[TexanByBirth]

So this case still seems a bit frivolous.

Seems that way to me too!

[Leroy S. Mort]

Where's MY piece of the (Apple) pie?

[Thoramir]

6 bits per color channel (6 bits for red, 6 bits for green, and 6 bits for blue). In the digital photography world color depth is almost always referred to in this manner. It can get a bit confusing for anyone used to the idea that an 8-bit display can only show 256 colors.

[scrabblehack]

What about the video cards that have luminance and chrominance rather than RGB? The color looked washed out compared to true 24-bit color, although they used to advertise them as 24-bit color. Dang, I forget — I want to say it was 8 bits of luminance and no more than 8 bits of chrominance.