Harmy said:
I tried reading up on it but to be honest, I find the whole thing quite confusing …
That’s what happens when step-up technology is put into the hands of the Ad department.
Who would junk their present HD-TV for some step-up technology that shows all the present media … looking the same? So it gets some hot-new name that lets the imagination fly. (Ever see a store demo of a UHD-TV? The picture “pops”! Wow! Is that the new technology? Well … no, because the store-mode setting is “high-saturation” and “high-contrast”. But you can do the same thing at home with your lowly HD-TV, because 1 (UHD) panel is what they manufacture to break up into 4 panels for 4 HD-TVs.
It really is more like this . .
. . more visible spectrum being saved in a bigger container, to hold the extra range. Digitally speaking, a few more bits for the extra colors. (Because our technology can’t affordably do more right now.)
That’s about as much as I can perceive without technical details – slow in coming because “an extra bit (or 2) per Red, Green, and Blue” wouldn’t sell more TVs. 😃