Video file formats and settings can be pretty complicated, and it’s all about trading off file sizes against quality. 8-bit video capture keeps file sizes smaller and is pretty much a universal common ...

The number of bits used to hold a screen pixel. Also called "pixel depth" and "bit depth," the color depth is the maximum number of colors that can be displayed. True Color (24-bit color) is required ...

Using two bytes per pixel in a color image. Up to 65,536 colors can be represented in the color palette. Most graphics formats provide 8-bit color or 24-bit color; however, graphics cards generally ...

It depends on what video card you have. If you have a 2MB S3 Virge DX or something like that, you might want to stick with 16 bit color because you might be waiting for a second or two for the screen ...

Color accuracy went south at the introduction of LED-backlit LCDs, due largely to the extreme skew to the blue end of the spectrum that early backlights were prone to. Fortunately, the TV industry has ...

AS for the video player outputting 10-bit, I guess if that's true, it doesn't make sense to me why they bother with more color precision in anime, since it soulds like it'd have to map back to 8-bit ...