Deep Color & x.v.Color - A little help

[Mkilbride]

AVR-1312 | A/V RECEIVERS | DENON US

Deep Color and x.v.Color Support: The AVR-1312 also supports Deep Color and x.v.Color content, which can display a larger color range than standard-definition schemes. The result is a more lifelike, vibrant picture.

So my Receiver I linked to supports these features. It's my first receiver.

I heard Deep Color can help reduce, or even, potentially...remove banding from the images entirely? It is the bane of my Cinema experience, seeing a little bit of banding even on high quality sources. Most people don't see them that I watch with, but I do, and it bugs the crap out of me.

Googling shows a lot of mixed messages. Some say it's really good, others say it's terrible.

I'm going to be setting up my whole system in a few days here and was wondering about Deep Color & x.v.Color. You can only pick one, I've read, and if I should pick one at all, which would you say?

Would it also be recommended to hook up my PS3 & Cable Box to the receiver, then a HDMI directly to the TV? Instead of connecting them all by themselves? Or does that not work? New to this. I know it has Console & Blu-Ray player ports, but what about the Cable Box?

 

[Grador]

AVR-1312 | A/V RECEIVERS | DENON US



So my Receiver I linked to supports these features. It's my first receiver.

I heard Deep Color can help reduce, or even, potentially...remove banding from the images entirely? It is the bane of my Cinema experience, seeing a little bit of banding even on high quality sources. Most people don't see them that I watch with, but I do, and it bugs the crap out of me.

Googling shows a lot of mixed messages. Some say it's really good, others say it's terrible.

I'm going to be setting up my whole system in a few days here and was wondering about Deep Color & x.v.Color. You can only pick one, I've read, and if I should pick one at all, which would you say?

Would it also be recommended to hook up my PS3 & Cable Box to the receiver, then a HDMI directly to the TV? Instead of connecting them all by themselves? Or does that not work? New to this. I know it has Console & Blu-Ray player ports, but what about the Cable Box?

xvYCC is not supported by DVD-Video or Blu-ray, but is supported by the high-definition recording format AVCHD and PlayStation 3

So xvYCC will do nothing for you there. As far as I know there's not Deep Color content either, but I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure the banding issues you come across are going to have more to do with encoding than lack of color gamut. As for connections, taking everything HDMI to your receiver and then from receiver to TV is the preferred method of connection.

 

[Mkilbride]

Ah ok.

Even the Cable Box? And I know it has to do with the encoding, but hm.

I use my PS3 for BLu-Rays, but I guess Deep Color & whatnot don't matter now. Maybe in 5-10 years, by which of then, this will be useless.