Okay.. WOW! What a difference.


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Last night I was mucking around on my PS3 Slim, and I found under Display Options: RBG FULL RANGE (HDMI) was turned off.

I flipped it on.

It's like my ps3 has seen the light.

The colors are so SO much more rich and beautiful.

:laugh:.

Why didn't anyone write this up on the things to know about getting a ps3 thread when I said I was thinking about getting one? :p

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Yeah, AudioBoxer had a whole guide on it if I remember a long while back with images and stuff showing the difference and which you should use if you use a TV or a Monitor etc. Definitely a big difference. Can't seem to find it though.

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Yeah, AudioBoxer had a whole guide on it if I remember a long while back with images and stuff showing the difference and which you should use if you use a TV or a Monitor etc. Definitely a big difference. Can't seem to find it though.

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While the colours appear richer, all that this does on a HDTV is effectively increase the contrast, so while they look deeper, you'll be cutting out a lot of detail. The opening hours of Final Fantasy XIII serve as a good demonstration of how much detail you can end up losing.

There's a post on AVS Forum that explains this pretty well:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=13048267&postcount=183

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While the colours appear richer, all that this does on a HDTV is effectively increase the contrast, so while they look deeper, you'll be cutting out a lot of detail. The opening hours of Final Fantasy XIII serve as a good demonstration of how much detail you can end up losing.

There's a post on AVS Forum that explains this pretty well:

http://www.avsforum....7&postcount=183

I haven't lost any details on my Acer H233H Monitors ... :blink:

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While the colours appear richer, all that this does on a HDTV is effectively increase the contrast, so while they look deeper, you'll be cutting out a lot of detail. The opening hours of Final Fantasy XIII serve as a good demonstration of how much detail you can end up losing.

There's a post on AVS Forum that explains this pretty well:

http://www.avsforum....7&postcount=183

This. I too had tested this enabled, and detail took a huge back seat to vibrance. I would never go back to that setting.

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I haven't lost any details on my Acer H233H Monitors ... :blink:

From what I can gather from various things I've read around the webernet, if you're using a monitor then you should be using 'RGB Full', as computer displays use the full spectrum of RGB colours. HDTVs do not do this, however, and the PS3 should therefore have this setting on 'Off', as otherwise the signal will be displaced up the spectrum and you'll lose detail. You can replicate this effect (both the loss of detail and the increased vibrancy) by changing the 'Contrast' setting on your TV.

I don't really possess the vocabulary to properly explain what's going on (the forum post I linked to in my previous comment does a far better job), but if you've ever tried to calibrate an HDTV then thinking about it in those terms -- with different shades of black assigned numbers -- will make more sense. An HDTV can only display a certain amount of those colours. There are, I think, 255 different gradients of black, and a TV only displays up to 235 or something like that. With 'RGB Full' set to 'Off', your PS3 will output the signal in 235 different colours. With it set to 'On', it outputs them in 255, and if this signal is sent to an HDTV, it has the effect of inflating the contrast of the image, in that a 200 becomes 220 (darker than it's supposed to be), and 215 becomes 235 (the darkest an HDTV will normally display), and 216 and above are lost entirely, and will all be displayed as 235.

The result of this will be that colours will be darker than they're supposed to be (giving you the perceived richness and depth of colour), but that in dark areas of the picture, where you're supposed to have nuanced gradients of black, you'll just end up with blocks of solid black, and end up losing a lot of detail.

Like I said, this is a loose explanation of what's going on, and I'm sure that somebody with a better working knowledge of how all this crap works could give a much more precise account of things, but what I've tried to articulate here is at least the gist of what's happening with the 'RGB Full' setting, which really is named in quite a misleading way.

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