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 ...

Back in the hazy days of the early home computers, many of us would rejoice at running our first BASIC applications, some of us even built our own 8-bit system from a handful of ICs and felt elated ...

16-bit color usually means a 565 RGB pixel format (5 bits red, 6 bits green, and 5 bits blue). 32-bit color means you get a 8888 RGBA pixel format (8 bits red, 8 bits green, 8 bits blue, and 8 bits ...

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 ...

Embarking as the first active HDMI switch supporting video-data transfer rates up to 3.4 Gb/s, the STDVE003A supports full 16-bit color depth for a true HD picture. The device integrates an equalizer ...

This reference design demonstrates the finest range of color control of individual RGBW LED strings with > 16 bits of PWM resolution while supporting the PWM modulation frequencies as high as 30 and ...

Embedded GUIs are growing more elaborate day by day. Developers now have to contend with such arcana as a color palette. Another reader wanted to know how to pick the ideal set of colors in a color ...