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  Re: RGB of death [16-bit jpeg2000]  
From: Dan P
Date: 9 Mar 2004 19:28:08
Message: <404e6118$1@news.povray.org>
"Severi Salminen" <sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi> wrote in message
news:404e5fac@news.povray.org...
> Dan P wrote:
>
> >>That is of course _if_ there was hardware to show more than
> >>8bits/channel. Did you mean that you have such a videcard?
> >
> > I actually think I might. I'm not sure -- I know the video card I have
is
> > pretty beefy and over $400.
>
>
> Care to tell the brand and the model of it? I'm just curious as I don't
> know any 16-bit/channel video card (I'm not caliming that there aren't
> any..).
>
> Severi

Sure -- it is an NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200. Since it's off-the-shelf (and
probably a year old now) I'm guessing it probably isn't more than 8 bits per
channel, but I don't know much about video cards so I can't speak with any
confidence about anything on this. All I know is that it was damned
expensive new :-)


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