I’ve seen only a few 8-bit + FRC panels to date, so I can’t say for certain that that’s the cause of the shimmer and moiré.ĭespite the artifacts described above, we were extremely impressed with the Hisense U8H’s picture and everyday viewing prowess. A high refresh rate masks the flickering that would otherwise result from this technique. To get around this, an 8-bit + FRC panel displays two colors over two adjacent frames to trick your eye into seeing a color that the panel wouldn’t otherwise be able to produce with 8 bits of data. An 8-bit panel can only produce 256 shades of color per channel (256 x 256 x 256 = 16.7 million colors). A 10-bit panel can display 1,024 shades of color per channel: Red, green, and blue (1,204 x 1,204 x 1,204 = 1.07 billion). I speculate that some of the shimmer and moiré is due to Hisense using 8-bit + FRC (Frame Rate Control) to display one billion colors instead of 10-bit processing. Not a whole lot of material was affected by this, but what there was was irritating. That firmware update didn’t fix the greater-than-average shimmer and moiré we observed in areas of finely detailed HDR patterns.

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