stats on people viewing in 24 bit colour

[anubis]

Hi
Just wondered if an body knew of any stats that show how many people on the web are viewing web sites in 24bit colour?

Cheers

Anubis

[korkus2000]

This maybe a little old but may help
[cc.gatech.edu...]

I would think that the information would be higher today as apposed to 98.

[pageoneresults]

Here's one that is updated frequently...

[upsdell.com...]

[tedster]

More people COULD view in 24-bit color, but their equipment comes set to 16-bit out of the box and they don't know enough to pump it up.

Why do manufacturers set their equipment to work at less than its best? That's a mystery to me.

[pageoneresults]

> Why do manufacturers set their equipment to work at less than its best? That's a mystery to me.

Performance issues probably. Running at 32 bit color requires some processing and a somewhat powerful graphics card. With my recent monitor purchase, I had to upgrade my 8MB card to a 64MB card. I'm now able to see 32 bit the way it was meant to be seen. Couldn't do it with the 8MB card.

When working with images, I stay at 16 bit since that is where a majority of the users are. You'd be surprised at the differences between 16 and 32 bit when it comes to image compression. Eek!