PowerVR Series4 Video IP Cores: 1024 Shades Of Grey

With the recent launch of Imagination's next generation video cores, the PowerVR D4500MP decoder and PowerVR E4500MP encoder, Imagination has brought a series of exciting new features designed to preserve colour fidelity from source to display and provide the performance required for ultra-high definition video applications. Building on the strength of the highly acclaimed PowerVR Series3 IP core families, these multi-pipe video IPs will usher in a new era of colour quality and fidelity by offering a hardware coding engine capable of supporting full chroma resolution up to 10 bits of precision, leading to an amazing total of 1024 shades for each primary colour. Read more at http://withimagination.imgtec.com/index.php/powervr/the-world-in-1-billion-colours-now-with-the-powervr-series4-video-ip-cores

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Banding effects in video encoding/decoding

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Skyline banding effects

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H.264 video encoding/decoding block diagram