From The Science Asylum.
No matter what device you’re watching this on, you’re getting the same 16 million colors everyone got in the early 90s. What’s up with that?
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Emily Lucid – Producer, Captions
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SOURCES
General History:
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/monitors.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_display_technology
IBM Enhanced Color Display 1984:
https://minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Enhanced%20Color%20Display%20(5154).pdf
4-Bit Color:
https://int10h.org/blog/2022/06/ibm-5153-color-true-cga-palette/
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TIME CODES
00:00 Intro
00:14 Color Pixels
00:46 Human Color Vision
01:10 RGB Color Space
02:05 Screens vs Vision
02:39 Bits and Bytes
03:26 Moderns Screens
03:46 Why 24-Bit Color?
05:22 Closing Thoughts
06:18 Featured Comment
