Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ElephantsMyAnus 1554 days ago
No that can't be what's happening. You would expect contrast to be lost, not increased, if that was the issue.

8bit sRGB can contain 11.6 f-stops of dynamic range, and it is no longer enough for modern screens. There must be a longstanding bug somewhere. It would not be the first time it happened. There was a chroma decoding bug in almost all DVD players. A very similar issue to this, antialiasing in CGI used to be calculated without gamma, until GPUs got fast enough to use it and I suppose that someone started looking into why it performs worse than expected.