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Friday, June 24, 2011

Nanosys Screen Technology: A Quantum Leap Forward in Colour Accuracy?

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Laptop Thoughts News" @ 09:00 PM

http://scobleizer.com/2011/06/23/is...-i-hope-so-wow/

"When Nanosys CEO Jason Hartlove pulled two iPads out of his bag and turned them on one looked like when I first saw my first Kodachrome slide while the other looked muddy and crappy in comparison (I pulled out my own iPad and saw my screen looked muddy and crappy in comparison too). The new one was clear, beautiful, stunning, with richer colors than I had ever seen on a screen before."

I highly value great display technology and based on what I'm reading about Nanosys, this could be a major leap forward. The challenge here is that since none of us are going to watch this video on a Nanosys display, we can't actually tell how much better it is. While I don't think "our lives will change forever" as the hyperbolic Robert Scoble puts it, it looks like Nanosys is positioned to make a big splash in the display industry. The Nanosys system allows for just over 60% of the colour gamut that the human eye can see. In comparison, a typical tablet is 20%, a typical HDTV is about 35%, and the NTSC broadcast standard is about 50%.

A lot of technology like this goes nowhere, but the Nanosys CEO says their technology will be in a tablet by the end of the year, and in TVs in 2012. Since this is a film, it should technically work in essentially anything with an LCD screen: phones, tablets, laptops, TVs, etc. I'm looking forward to this, especially since the CEO says their product is essentially cost-neutral so industry pick-up should be swift.


Thursday, April 14, 2011

Future of Screen Technology by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT)

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Articles & Resources" @ 03:00 PM

http://www.tat.se/blog/future-of-sc...perience-video/

This video is from back in September 2010, but I hadn't seen it yet and wanted to share - there's nothing radically new here, but it's neat to see some of the concepts that have been commonly discussed being represented visually. Will we have many/any of these things by 2014? I doubt it - but we can dream!


Monday, November 8, 2010

Apple Memo Reveals Dead Pixel Policy

Posted by Joe Johaneman in "Apple Talk" @ 07:30 AM

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/05/appl...ree-for-ipad-g/

"Our friends at Boy Genius Report gave the lowdown Wednesday on an internal Apple document that specifies exactly how many bad pixels must appear on a device before it is considered to be 'out of spec.' There are a number of thresholds that depend on the display size and the density of the anomalies. For displays up to 3.5 inches, which includes all iPods and iPhones, no bad pixels will be tolerated; even a single instance gets you an automatic replacement. "

Apparently, this is just a recommendation to Genius Bar employees on when a display (or a device with an LCD display) can be replaced due to dead pixels. The interesting thing is: If you have dead pixels on a largish screen, you can get it replaced, no matter how many dead pixels it has, but if you get a replacement with more dead pixels, you can't replace it for free again as long as the number of dead pixels are within spec. Has anyone come across this policy at their local genius bar?


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

iPhone 4 Buyers, Check Your Screens!

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad" @ 06:00 PM

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/06...earing.on.lcds/

"As customers begin to receive their iPhone 4 shipments, some users have already reported problems with the LCDs."

I certainly wouldn't be happy if my screen had one of these areas on it. The support forums at Apple already have posts about this problem, and with all the shortages, replacements are anyone's guess! Just the same, I'll be inspecting mine before I leave the Apple Store tomorrow.


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