Once again I’m looking for a monitor, this time for my stepfather. My Samsung S24A650D, which I bought after about 10 hours of looking up specs and emailing a number of manufacturers to find one that can display millions of colors (8 bit) rather than mere thousands of colors and faking the rest, still has new stock in the pipeline so I might just buy another one of those while I still can.
You’d think monitors manufacturers wouldd slap “True Color!!!” on all their products that featured it, but it’s quite a task to actually find wether a given monitor is or is not, or even the underlaying technology used. Maybe they don’t want to draw attention to the fact that the other 95% of their product line fakes color with dithering or frame rate control.
To make sure I have the situation right:
MVA= True color
IPS= Some are true color, some are fake color
TN= All fake color.
I’m kind of wondering what the future holds. Are panels going to get cheap enough that true color becomes standard. Or since consumers seem not to care, is true color going to disappear. Or is a completely new technology going to replace LCD?
The technical links here do not really support your listing of what is “true color” and not re “MVA= True color”. It’s a lot more complex topic than your grouping suggests.
