pixels

Microsoft pictures the 10-gigapixel photo

News Forget megapixels, where the resolution of digital images is counted in millions of pixels. Michael Cohen, a scientist at Microsoft Research, is trying to create a photo this summer that will contain 10 billion pixels.

4 May 2006, 10:30

PowerBook screen riles Apple customers

News Some Apple users are complaining that, although the new 15-inch PowerBook packs in more pixels, the screen also displays unwanted horizontal lines. The new display has very noticeable black horizontal lines between each row of pixels.

19 December 2005, 8:38

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News The basic concern is that smaller pixels on camera sensors means less sensitivity to light, leading to image noise such as off-colour speckles or rough edges, worse performance in dim conditions, and the loss of finer tonal gradations, such as the...

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00

Photos: A touch of power for new MacBooks

News The new MacBook Pro enables viewing of 1,440x900 pixels on the 15.4-inch model or 1,680x1,050 pixels on the 17-inch version. Apple on Tuesday announced that it is boosting the processing power of its MacBook Pro and MacBook lineup of laptops.

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27 February 2008, 9:35

New Samsung slimline panel TV screen

News Last year, the company showed off a 14.1-inch OLED panel with a resolution of 1,280 by 768 pixels and followed that up with a 21-inch screen capable of high-definition resolution (1,920 by 1,080 pixels).

20 May 2005, 10:14

Motorola builds nanotube-based display

News Motorola's prototype measures 120mm (4.7 inches) diagonally and has a resolution of 128 by 96 pixels, she said. The prototype is "designed to be a piece of a 42-inch high-definition television" screen, which will have resolution of 1,280 by 720...

9 May 2005, 10:02

Samsung to unveil world's largest LCD

News Samsung's display has a resolution of 1,920x1,080 pixels, which qualifies it as a high-definition TV but isn't incredibly high for a screen of this size. That screen has a resolution of 3,840x2,160 pixels.

22 August 2006, 11:03

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

Sony cuts HD camcorder down to size

News High definition is a standard for digital video that Sony defines as 1,440 pixels by 1,080 scanning lines of resolution. HD video produces a far more detailed picture by capturing more pixels than standard video.

18 May 2005, 10:38

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News That problem gets worse as pixels get smaller, so more megapixels isn't necessarily progress. If you pick up a camera phone from 2003 or and compare to one from 2008, that old one will produce nicer pictures.For product purposes, Kodak is pairing...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News So a 12-megapixel sensor would have 6 million panchromatic pixels, 3 million green pixels, 1.5 million red pixels and 1.5 million blue pixels. Every second pixel registers green light, while the remaining pixels capture either red or blue.

14 June 2007, 10:28

Thirty photos a second with a digicam?

News With CMOS, designers have found ways to shrink the pixels in imagers, which means that camera designers can increase the resolution of their cameras without increasing the lens size. The Micron imager sports pixels measuring 1.75 microns across.

18 May 2006, 12:03

'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, 11:21

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

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