martin It is not life threatening, but I would say it is certainly life limiting. I still think the industry have simply mass-imposed dithering (at driver level/hardware level) in new tech as a shortcut to avoid producing expensive 8bpc+ monitors, and to hide any signs that the display is of a lower quality. It wouldn’t surprise me if our expensive phones are using sub-par or older display tech, which relies on dithering to keep the perceived colours 99% perfect across the board. In many ways it could be said that dithering is an RGB standard in effect as it almost guarantees the same perceived color range as 10bit, minus the cost.
What I don’t understand after all this time is why there isn’t an off switch. Even when directly speaking to graphics developers, they either don’t know or don’t care about it. The freedesktop Linux post on another thread has been open for weeks, I simply want a black and white answer to.
What dithering is currently used on consumer devices? Can it be disabled? Somebody had to have created this pixel movement therefore it can be disabled in just a few lines of code.