That's like thinking that if you close down the hospital, people won't be ill.
It really isn't....
+1. It's more like closing down cheap, third-class hospitals will cause people to work harder and get better treatment at the better, more expensive hospitals...?
It's actually more like the hospital is closing down it's discount wards, so everyone who wants treatment will have to pay full price. I was gonna say free clinic, but that's incorrect.
I have to agree with this one. I've pointed out earlier that that's what I'd do, and I think I've proven my point that those of us exist with very nice hardware that can and will have problems with 10-bit in it's current state. However, it seems to me, and obviously this is based on my opinion, that the more reasonable posts from me and others are entirely overlooked in favor of the screaming idiots.
10-bit is better for anime more then any other source type for the very simple reason that gradients won't be dithered (much, if at all) until the end of the line, which is hard to argue. If you combine that with an undithered source medium (doctored or no), a player that can deal with it properly, a group that encoded it properly, hardware (I hate to break it to you guys, but computers are made up of hardware as well -- using the term hardware for both old computers and set-top boxes probably isn't the best idea in terms of discussion) that can deal with it without needing any hardware based acceleration, and a properly configured monitor or TV (most of them are, in fact, NOT, configured properly and can and will introduce banding without tweaking, if the screen is capable). There is no arguing any of that, it's all true, and will be of better quality when the right conditions are met.
I meet most of those conditions, except that since I choose to not sit in front on a monitor, and use software meant for media-center-style viewing (XBMC), it'll be a bit of time yet before 10-bit is a good choice.
Personally I would have a hard time justifying the use of 10-bit even for the sake of quality, since there are inarguably a
lot of reasons not to use it. At the same time, I don't manage this site at all, and I imagine most of the people in the thread don't either, don't take their efforts for granted! They asked, the least we can do is keep it civil.
Oh, to the guy that recently brought up bigger seeding pools by forcing people to adapt. Wow.
My vote is still for the pretend poll option - 10-bit is probably the future, but it's still premature. Re-evaluate in 6 months.
