Quote Originally Posted by ZenbaaS View Post
Hmm thanks. How many anime is still encoded in 10 bit these days...? Normally I would jsut play anime on my PC and send it via hdmi to my tv so I've never really paid too much attention to it.
Not much surprisingly, despite it being around for many years. It will usually be labeled; HiP10, 10 bit, HiP. You will find that Blu Ray encodes are more 10 bit to save space, a really good encoder can get 1:1 visually at 1/5th of the size. It's amazing how much Data is used for RAW video.

Sadly I am unable to find a RAW screen cap straight from Television but, let's just say that if you are watching anime right now on a TV in Japan chances are it is 1080i and is upscaled from 480p, despite it being produced at higher resolutions. (I may be speaking under correction here, but when I used to use IRC I was on many of the fansub channels Taka, Dattebayo, SS, Leopard and they could confirm that it was mostly upscales to 1080i). I recall at one stage when Dattebayo was still around. They had stated that people should stop complaining, that Bleach looks "blurry" or "unclear" as they had posted a screencap of the TV Tokyo 7 RAW, and my word was it shocking, the interlacing was so bad you could see the banding.

...and here I am going on about TV broadcast video quality.

TL;DR
It will state 10bit, and not all of it is.