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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
1-3 would be a HUGE increase in memory and memory bandwidth requirements. Today 8-bit video is 12 bit/pixel. Going to fully sampled float32 is an 8x increase in memory requirements!
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Not really, the floats are converted to 8 or 10 bit using a byte stream depending on the destination bit-depth during (or right after) decoding. Practically speaking there are no commercial monitors that can display over 10-bit of accuracy, there is no need to actually render float values to the monitor.
I believe it should be possible when someone makes a documentary with mixed framerate footage not to worry about making the overall framerate unique but to allow multiple segments. There is absolutely no technical reason why modern monitors cannot switch framerates on the fly (or get a change signal a few frames ahead).
HDMI is an awful, protectionist, and very limited technology.