picture quality

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News The upshot, as promised by Kodak: better picture quality, or the same picture quality when shooting in dim light conditions such as those that prevail in most indoor scenes. Kodak hopes turning one aspect of chip design on its head will help...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Plasma TVs making a comeback

News Plasmas offer crisper picture quality but use more power and are heavier; LCDs offer brighter images but can be blurry. Given up for dead less than a year ago, plasma TVs are making a comeback, with manufacturers boosting sales forecasts amid a...

Tags: consumers, high definition, american, demand

10 January 2008, 10:24

PS3 update adds DivX and Profile 1.1

News The PS3's firmware update also upgrades the console's Blu-ray Disc drive, which bumps the player up to Profile 1.1 and adds picture-in-picture support as well as other features. Last month, DivX Inc.revealed that its proprietary file-compression...

Tags: sony, voice, portable, console

19 December 2007, 9:01

OLED TVs still AWOL for consumers

News OLED televisions are going to be a boon for picture quality and energy efficiency -- someday, if you can afford them. One of the biggest is differential aging, meaning the red, green and blue diodes degrade at different rates, which results in a...

22 August 2007, 11:09

Motion-sensing comes to mobiles

News Invensense is already supplying digital-camera companies with its tiny, MEM-based gyroscopes to help stabilise cameras and improve picture quality, especially on higher-megapixel cameras. But using it to improve picture quality, so that I actually...

26 March 2007, 11:05

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News However, Panasonic has made drastic improvements in reducing overall picture noise without sacrificing detail, specifically in its recent improvements in the Venus Engine 3 processor for 2007 models. Sally Smith Clemens, a product manager for...

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00

Vista pushes HD Photo centre stage

News The day will come when somebody says, 'That picture you did at Mount Whatever -- I want a big copy of that,'" Tapp said. JPEG 2000, like JPEG named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group that produced it, offers better compression quality than...

29 January 2007, 10:44

Sharp unveils 108-inch LCD TV

News This is expected to increase picture quality. The market for these behemoth televisions is small, but Sharp executives noted that prices over time decline and that other large televisions have found customers despite early scepticism.

8 January 2007, 9:05

Reinventing the colour TV

News Next year should be a big one for improving the picture quality of digital TVs. Toshiba will also try to ship the first SED (surface conduction electron-emitter display) televisions, which use a new standard the company says will provide a better...

1 December 2006, 10:12

LCDs outsell CRT TVs in Europe

News LCD manufacturers now sell 40-inch TVs -- the plasma stronghold -- and will try to compete in the 50-inch and larger space next year with technology that will purportedly improve picture quality. LCD TVs outsold conventional CRTs in Europe for the...

28 November 2006, 9:03

New tech takes the blur out of LCD TVs

News It will make a significant improvement in picture quality. The motion image quality issues are history with this product," said Brian Berkeley, vice president of advanced technology in Samsung's LCD division.

21 November 2006, 10:51

Sundance puts mobiles in the spotlight

News Quality certainly enters the picture," said Redford. Another hurdle could be the quality of the video being offered. Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford announced on Wednesday that his independent film organisation is teaming with a global trade...

9 November 2006, 10:00

LCD TVs to get carbon nanotube boost?

News These nanotube TVs are actually similar in concept to traditional CRT (cathode-ray tube) TVs, and advocates claim that they will provide better resolution and picture quality than LCD TVs or plasma TVs.

8 November 2006, 11:06

Toshiba to challenge LCD with SED TVs

News The performance and picture quality will also be far higher than LCDs or plasmas, he said. Toshiba set the screen size for a new type of television it says will provide better performance than LCD and plasma, and vowed that the price would be...

3 October 2006, 10:30

'Manual' is the mantra for new cameras

News The FinePix F31fd, a 6.3-megapixel camera has 26MB of internal memory and takes xD-Picture Cards. But the overall design seems to acknowledge that long-term consumer loyalty may come down to the quality of a photo the camera can produce in...

27 September 2006, 10:21