Tag archive: resolution

Designed by a couple recent Harvard grads, GymPact is a service that encourages people to make it into the gym by linking performance to money according to ABC News. Currently limited to iPhone owners, users sign up for the service through the GymPact application and decide how many days per week that they would like to exercise. The app allows the user to “check-in” to the gym similar to Foursquare and the minimum amount of time… Read More

Don’t get too comfortable with your Blu-ray collection. Not content to let lowly home theater owners wallow in 1080p while digital cinemas deliver full 4K resolution, Sony has hit its commercial projectors with a shrink ray to produce the first 4K projector suitable for the home: The VPL-VW1000ES. Sony used the opening of the annual CEDIA installers show on Wednesday to showcase its new top-of-the-line consumer projector, which bears its… Read More

Another day, another round of Apple rumors. The latest drop of information comes from Bloomberg, which reports that the next iPhone, which we've been calling the iPhone 5, will have a number of expected performance upgrades to its processor and camera. It looks like the delay until September has been explained as well. While Apple usually debuts new iPhones every June, its extensive set of upgrades in iOS 5 have delayed the process. We… Read More

Market research company NPD is reporting that when it comes to consumer smartphone preference, the bigger the better. Tiny, sliver-sized phones have become a thing of the past and people are now willing to sacrifice space in favor of richer, larger, fully-featured media experiences. According to NPD’s claims, the demand for phones with displays ranging between 3.5 and 3.9 inches have leveled out, but consumer interest in those with 4-inch… Read More

Nikon has introduced its new top-of-the-line digital SLR camera, the Nikon D3X, a 24-5 megapixel FX-format DSLR that offers continuous 5 frames-per-second shooting at full resolution, along with a complete slate of high-end features sure to please professional photographers and simply wow the rest of us. The D3X can capture images at wieher 12-bit or 14-bit resolution to ensure high image quality…and at 24.5 megapixels, each RAW… Read More

You’ve made the investment in a new HDTV, but ask yourself: Are you really getting the most for your money? Something many new HDTV owners might not realize is that they likely aren’t enjoying the best possible picture quality right out of the box. In fact, unbeknownst to certain users, some may not even be viewing programs in high-definition! In this short guide, we’ll help you make sure that you’re not only… Read More

Consumers may still be reeling from the gratuitous resolutions available in even the cheapest digital cameras these days, but for the professional photographer, no resolution is ever really “enough.” Kodak made that point rather dramatically on Tuesday with the introduction of the world’s first 50-megapixel CCD for professional cameras, the KAF-50100, which takes photos in a staggering 8176 x 6132 resolution. To… Read More

High-end projectors with 1080p resolution and through-the-roof contrast ratios may garner the lion’s share of attention when they’re first announced, but with prices that rival those of most compact cars, they’re also out of the question for most people. NEC made an appeal to more budget-minded consumers on Monday with the release of its NP Value Series of mobile projectors, both of which offer portability and… Read More

Continuing in the trend of packing more and more resolution into pocketable point-and-shoot cameras, Sony broke news Monday of its new Cyber-Shot W300, a slim new digital camera that takes 13.6-megapixel shots. Like many cameras in Sony’s Cyber-Shot line, the W300 gets a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, which offers 3x zoom and benefits from Sony’s Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization. It also sports a titanium covering to… Read More

These days the television industry is all abuzz about getting high-definition televisions into consumers' hands. Sure, 480 lines of resolution on a 17-inch CRT might have been good enough for our grandparents, they tell us, but to really appreciate a good movie, you need at least a 50-inch screen displaying 1080 lines of resolution. And, wow, do they have a deal for you right over here…. But what comes next after… Read More

Last month, General Electric raised a few eyebrows by announcing it would be entering the digital camera market with newcomer General Imaging, which is headed up by former Olympus president Hiroshi Komiya. Today at the Photo Marketing Association conference, General Imaging put its camera models were its press releases are, unveiling eight camera models (PDF) designed to appeal to first-time digital camera buyers as well as experienced… Read More

Canon has taken the wraps off even more additions to its digital camera lineup, including a new PowerShot G7 high-end point-and-shoot cameras and numerous new (and colorful) members of the company's popular Digital Elph line. All the new cameras feature Canon's DIGIC III image processor with face detection technology, so they can track faces as they move within the viewfinder to make sure those portraits and group shots turn out… Read More

The new LCM-19v5 features integrated speakers, DVI input and a native resolution of 1280×1024. But will the LCM-19v5 be worth your money? “Westinghouse Digital's HD-Grade LCD monitors offer increased resolution, brightness and contrast ratios, delivering an enhanced viewing experience, whether you are working on documents or spreadsheets, sending e-mails, or enjoying digital entertainment,” said Douglas Woo,… Read More

From NEC's press release: NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of a novel 3D system-on-glass (“SOG”) liquid crystal display (“LCD”) that can display the world's highest resolution 3D images. NEC's original Horizontally Double-Density Pixel (“HDDP”) structure breaks the conventional LCD resolution barrier, and combined with a lenticular-lens enables the… Read More

Using a-Si technology, mobile phone displays are now capable of projecting the same VGA format found on notebook PCs and desktop monitors. With almost seven times the resolution of a 42-inchhigh-definition LCD TV at 300 pixels per inch (ppi), an a-Si enabled mobile phone can be used as a high quality mobile TV. “Samsung has built its proprietary amorphous silicon gates into the LCD panel, maximizing the efficiency of LCD design,… Read More