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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
@rashkae: That's because the Forma (and other Mk. 7 devices) support hardware dithering, and it's indeed pretty decent (still slightly more obvious than a good 8x8 matrix (or a good error diffusion algo), but, pretty decent, and essentially free, which pretty much trumps any other concerns given how serviceable it is). Nickel's own isn't half-bad, but is hobbled by various legacy reasons, a visible consequence of that being a more obvious pattern.
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The strange thing though.. both my Mark 5 H20, (I no longer have, so can't compare with latest firmware) and Mark 6 H20 do a better job of invisibly dithering than the Aura One,, even though they are lower resolution devices... and I would say, they are also both better than the 7th Gen Clara HD... (The Clara HD has this weird effect of creating diagonal bands of different shading on high resolution images, that leaves a faint but visible pattern.)