No, not club kids with faulty glowsticks, but Samsung Mobile Display’s latest WVGA 800 x 480 resolution AMOLED panels. Said to offer four-times more clarity than standard AMOLED screens, together with 300 pixels-per-inch, they’re also 40-percent more power-frugal for longer lasting mobile devices.
Sharp have apparently developed a new five-color LCD that’s capable of displaying more than 99-percent of real surface colors. That means that the display is able to show almost all of the colors the unaided human eye can see, including hitherto tricky or impossible shades such as the color of the sea (emerald blue), brass instruments (golden yellow), and roses (crimson red).
Pixel Qi have finally demonstrated their clever 3Qi screen, which mixes together indoor and outdoor readability together with an e-paper mode. The same panel is used in both halves of this picture: on the left, it’s set to full color saturation with its backlight on, while on the right the backlight is off and the panel is in e-paper mode. The latter will be incredibly power-frugal, as e-paper only draws power when changing the display, not to maintain an image.
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LG have unveiled a 23-inch LCD monitor which, the company claims, could pave the way for low-cost 3D computing and entertainment. The full-HD 1080p panel uses traditional time-sequential split-image technology to offer individual views of each image for each eye, which the brain combines into a 3D whole. However, by integrating this 3D technology into the panel itself, LG can make the panel brighter and reduce the complexity in the accompanying viewing glasses.
Video demo after the cut
Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) have been showing off their latest AMOLED prototype, a 6.5-inch panel that’s more flexible than any of their previous models. While this particular display is still more a proof of concept than anything else, SMD expect production panels based on the technology to find their way into watches, cellphones and flexible ebook readers.
JVC have announced a new HD LCD monitor, and they’re aiming it squarely at DSLR owners. The JVC Xiview LT-42WX70 is a full 42-inch panel with 120Hz refresh rate and 1080p support, but the headline figures here are its 96-percent cover for Adobe RGB colors. If you’re as picky as most photographers are, then you’ll be pleased to hear the LT-42WX70 offers a full 52 picture-quality adjustment properties for tweaking both still and video images source-by-source.
Connecting up a console to a display should be one of those things that’s ridiculously straightforward, but if you’re having trouble matching up sockets to plugs then Castrade may be able to help. Their CG-USC01HD-PLUS Game Box gobbles up your composite, S-Video and component video sources – such as a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii – and spits out VGA that’s ideal for your PC monitor.
NEC released an updated to their LCD2490WUXi2 display today in an effort to boost the color on this 24-inch LCD display. As a part of the MultiSync 90 series, NEC hasn’t updated these models in a while, so this is a welcome announcement.
eMachines have announced a new compact desktop PC range, the EL1300 series, promising budget prices but above-nettop performance. Two models will be available initially, the EL1300G-01w and EL1300G-02w, each using an AMD Athlon 2650e 1.6GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics and a 160GB 7,200rpm hard-drive.
Microsoft’s SideShow system – a secondary sub-display running off of a Windows Vista system – has never been as popular as the company might have hoped, but now they’re turning to gamers to rejuvenate the concept. The idea is a roughly 6.4-inch touchscreen, switchable between portrait and landscape orientation, which would present game-specific controls and free up the main display.
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