picture quality

New DVDs spark copy-protection chaos

News Along with a picture quality upgrade, the new generation of DVDs will be shipped with new digital rights management controls, with strict computerised rules attached saying exactly when and how a movie can be played.

17 February 2006, 12:09

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

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

New hi-def DVDs to use old video tech?

News Advanced formats don't necessarily improve picture quality," said Don Eklund, Sony Pictures' senior vice president of advanced technology. Our goal is to present the best picture quality for Blu-ray. As Sony Pictures notes, they don't necessarily...

Tags: matter, production, high definition, blu

30 November 2005, 9:33

Panasonic to emphasise plasmas

News LCD will go up in screen size and picture quality," Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Electronics, said in a separate interview. Plasma manufacturers have also cured many of the picture burn-in and other problems associated with the technology.

10 January 2006, 8:58

News.blog: Samsung cameras play MP3s

News The combination of a high-quality lens on a 7-megapixel camera should provide much better picture quality than simply having a high MP rating. When storage space becomes tight, a picture-resizing feature can be used to shrink the pictures and...

10 July 2006, 11:30

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

A film projector in a mobile phone?

News The picture brightness won't be as high as that of standard projectors, but it would let pictures on phones and music players escape the confines of the small screens on those devices. Instead of passing around a phone to show off a video or a...

16 November 2005, 9:39

Sharp LCD TVs go thin and light

News TVs with enhanced picture quality, in a pre-emptive move before the release of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs, known for thin displays and crisp images. Sharp said it has developed the world's thinnest and lightest LCD

23 August 2007, 11:10

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, 12:09

Texas company demos carbon nanotube TV

News Canon, Toshiba, Samsung and other consumer electronics companies are experimenting to see if carbon nanotubes, diamond dust and other materials could blend the superior picture quality of conventional cathode ray tube, or CRT, televisions with the...

8 September 2005, 10:21

Samsung LCD TV tech goes mobile

News Another part of improving the picture quality involves adding white pixels to the standard RGB (red, green, blue) alignment -- the three colours used to translate spectral light in displays and digital cameras.

14 November 2005, 11:18

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

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

Top ten Bond gadgets

News Its vibrant colours and smooth motion provide stunning picture quality, which Bond will enjoy as he relaxes with a Martini, shaken, not stirred, after a hard day's work. Not only can it make crisp, clean voice calls to associates worldwide, but it...

6 November 2006, 16:59