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Sony e-book to use electronic ink

News The 6-inch display has a resolution of 800 pixels by 600 pixels. Consumer electronics giant Sony is using electronic ink in its new e-book, marking one of the first consumer applications of the next-generation display technology.

25 March 2004, 9:15

'Manual' is the mantra for new cameras

News The camera also takes TV-quality VGA (640x480 pixels) video with audio, or QVGA (320x420 pixels) video for emailing. While this year's Photokina promises to be the most well-attended ever, the products introduced so far this week at the biennial...

27 September 2006, 10:21

News.blog: I want 'Buffy' on my iPod!

News At 320x240 pixels, DVDs look stunning on the iPod's screen, and a 48-minute TV segment took up 300MB. An episode of Alias that I randomly selected turned out to be 384x208 pixels in resolution and 77MB in size.

16 January 2006, 10:51

Face recognition in your photo album

News The software can identify and pick out features that measure 100 pixels tall or larger. The uploader also reduces the resolution of the photos sent to the Web site to 800 by 600 pixels, far lower than the typical digital photos taken on 5-megapixel...

14 March 2006, 10:14

Software smokes out photo hoaxes

News The software also seeks out areas in photographs where applications like Adobe Photoshop fill in pixels. These changes leave empty pixels in the frame. Photo-retouching applications, through probability algorithms, fill those pixels in with colours...

1 February 2006, 9:05

Special-effects masters put magic in ILM

News Instead of saying 'the spaceship doesn't look right there' or 'the spaceship is too far down', he might say 'raise the screen-left spaceship a bit, maybe 30 pixels of so'," said Muszalski. And sure enough, you'd go back to your desk, and darken the...

26 January 2007, 10:07

Camera shake could be no more

News Specifically, photos of actual scenes all have a similar amount of sharp-contrast transitions from bright-to-dark pixels on the one hand, and of smooth transitions between similar neighbouring pixels on the other, Fergus said.

10 August 2006, 9:30

Even-higher-def LCD on show at CeBIT

News The active part of the screen measures 1.24m by 0.7m, and it has a maximum resolution of 3,840x2,160 pixels. A 56-inch LCD screen with an unprecedented level of resolution will debut at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week.

8 March 2006, 14:03

Sharp's hyper hi-def experimental LCD

News Anyway you look at it, 8.84 million pixels is a lot of points of light. Sharp has produced a 64-inch LCD monitor that provides screen resolution two or three times that of normal high-definition screens.

5 October 2006, 10:46

Canon releases two new HD camcorders

News The XH A1 and the XH G1 HD camcorders each have three image sensors (also known as charge coupled devices, or CCDs) that record in 16:9 height-to-width format at 1,440x1,080 pixels, capturing video images at 1080i HD resolution.

31 July 2006, 9:29

Toshiba rolls out HD DVD laptop

News The Qosmio G35-AV650 adds a new model to Toshiba's Qosmio family of laptops, one that can play high-definition movies on a 17-inch display with a resolution of 1,920x1,200 pixels. Toshiba is expected to unveil what it says is the first laptop with...

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9 May 2006, 10:38

Canon develops its camera and printer lineup

News It supports video recording in XGA size (1024 by 768 pixels) at 15 frames per second, the company said. Canon on Monday announced a clutch of new digital cameras -- with resolutions ranging up to 12.8 megapixels -- along with an array of photo...

23 August 2005, 8:41

Sidebar on show in next Vista preview

News While DVD movies have popularised widescreen displays, Windows chief Jim Allchin said there are lots of uses for the extra pixels. As more computer users move to larger, widescreen monitors, Microsoft is staking a claim on that added real estate.

3 February 2006, 10:00

News.blog: iPhone squashes widescreen

News In and of itself, that doesn't prove anything: some displays utilise rectangular pixels, which allows them to deliver a true 16:9 picture. Add one more reason to doubt the iPhone hype: it appears that Apple's uberdevice utilises an unusual 1.5:1...

17 January 2007, 10:48

Samsung unveils largest flexible LCD ever

News The new screen, which sports a resolution of 640x480 pixels, relies on a low-temperature manufacturing process for transistors, developed by Samsung, that does not melt or distort the plastic substrate.

29 November 2005, 9:04