Chapter 5: Using the KVM Client49Text ReadabilityText Readability is designed to provide video modes with lower colordepth but text remains readable. Greyscale modes are even availablewhen applying lower bandwidth settings.This setting is ideal when working with computer GUIs, such as serveradministration.When working in full color video modes, a slight contrast boost isprovided, and text is sharper.In lower quality video modes, bandwidth is decreased at the expense ofaccuracy.Color AccuracyWhen Color Accuracy is selected, all video modes are rendered in full24-bit color with more compression artifacts.This setting applies to viewing video streams such as movies or otherbroadcast streams.In lower quality video modes, sharpness of fine detail, such as text, issacrificed.Video ModeThe Video Mode slider controls each video frame's encoding, affectingvideo quality, frame rate and bandwidth.In general, moving the slider to the left results in higher quality at thecost of higher bandwidth and, in some cases, lower frame rate.Moving the slider to the right enables stronger compression, reducingthe bandwidth per frame, but video quality is reduced.In situations where system bandwidth is a limiting factor, moving thevideo mode slider to the right can result in higher frame rates.When Text Readability is selected as the Optimized setting, the fourrightmost modes provide reduced color resolution or no color at all.These modes are appropriate for administration work where text andGUI elements take priority, and bandwidth is at a premium.
