Bit depth, or color depth, defines the number of shades and tones the scanner can resolve.
A. Color depth refers to the number of colors a monitor can display.
Higher resolution, greater color depth and large file sizes slow the process.
The higher the color depth, the better your images will generally look on the screen.
Still, for sheer excitement, glittering colors, depth and beauty, this set has stood up over time.
It has an optical resolution of 1,200 by 2,400 dots per inch and can generate files with 48-bit color depth.
With the Radeon alone, DVD movies could be played full-screen with good color depth and resolution.
And the newer HDMI 1.3 interface adds additional color depth and better audio, including better synchronization between audio and video to ensure accurate lip-synching.
(Turin describes the role of musks in perfume as "something akin to the transparent varnish on a painting that gives all colors depth and saturation").
Because of limitations in the file format, a GIF can support only 256 colors, giving it much less color depth than most video file formats.
"Photos do not bring out the values, color, depth, length or height that an illustration can," Mr. Moss told The New York Times in 1979.
