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    TFT Banding.

    Reading reviews and general forums posts about TFT monitors I notice the saying banding being used.

    What is actually meant by the term banding? Just asking as I have seen it used a lot and I don't know what it means

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    If you display an image (going from say black at the top of the screen to white at the bottom), you'd expect there to be a smooth transition in colours (which would be grey in this case). However, some LCD monitors aren't able to display this transition very well and you get a visible stepping of shades (called banding).

    I'll try and find a picture to show you to help illustrate.

    Edit: Ok, here's a picture I've found to show the difference.

    http://img53.imageshack.us/my.php?im...02vsa03uu5.jpg

    As you can see, the screen on the left shows a clear stepping in colour (horizontal bands) compared to the screen on the right.
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    tends to happen on 6-bit color monitors (rather than 8-bit), which market themselves as doing 16.2 million colors (not 16.7)

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    Or when they're not set up right.

    Infact I've also seen banding on an analogue input that was completely corrected when the DVI input was used instead - more likely down to the configurations of each input than the sign quality itself.

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    Thanks for the help Now I know what it means

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    To be honest this is the first time i've ever heard of this term, or so I think.
    Oh well, probably because i'm a CRT man.

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