online vids too dark.. why ?
in [UK Mac]
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From: Martin-S on 28 Feb 2010 22:36 In article <1jen66p.w5oww31eaxubkN%Howard.not(a)home.com>, Howard.not(a)home.com (Howard) wrote: > It's two yrs old and very bright and runs perfectly (ver 10.6.2) I watched it on an iLamp from 2003 and it looked fine. Have any of you seeing it darker tried to calibrate your display using the utility in the display prefs pane? -- Martin
From: Peter Ceresole on 1 Mar 2010 02:10 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > HTML 5 is not Flash (or Silverlight or Java FX -- not that anyone > cares about those all that much). That's the big deal. Well given that Flash works extremely well, then there really is no point in HTML5 at all, except as a curiosity. Of course maybe it's just Safari being a pig... When I tried it, it doesn't handle Flash as well as Firefox does, either. -- Peter
From: R on 1 Mar 2010 02:33 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. > > I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them > always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up > to maximum brightness. > > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? The OS X gamma default is now 2.2, as in Windows (it used to be 1.8).
From: Chris Ridd on 1 Mar 2010 03:28 On 2010-03-01 07:33:49 +0000, R said: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. >> >> I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them >> always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up >> to maximum brightness. >> >> Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? > > The OS X gamma default is now 2.2, as in Windows (it used to be 1.8). This was a change in Snow Leopard. If you upgrade a machine from 10.5 to 10.6, does it ask about changing the gamma, or preserve the old one (don't think so) or just use the new one? -- Chris
From: Ben Shimmin on 1 Mar 2010 03:40
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >> HTML 5 is not Flash (or Silverlight or Java FX -- not that anyone >> cares about those all that much). That's the big deal. > > Well given that Flash works extremely well, then there really is no > point in HTML5 at all, except as a curiosity. I think you need to see the bigger picture. The iPhone (and iPad) don't support Flash. Many mobile devices don't support Flash. Flash performance on Macs is worse than on PCs (demonstrably -- I actually see better performance in Windows on VMware than on Mac OS X, on the same system). Flash is a closed, proprietary system, whereas HTML 5 isn't. Et cetera. HTML 5 and Flash are, of course, about a lot more than just video, though video (and <video>) are all many people seem to care about right now. > Of course maybe it's just Safari being a pig... When I tried it, it > doesn't handle Flash as well as Firefox does, either. I find it handles it better, thanks at least in part to Click2Flash (I'm sure there are Firefox equivalents, of course). b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert |