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Innolux Criticises QDs, Looks to Own Tech

At its recent investor conference, Innolux announced that it will not use quantum dots and will instead focus on its own wide colour gamut technology. Chairman of the board and CEO Hsing-Chien Tsuan said that QD displays consume more energy than standard LCD displays. QDs were also said to use environmentally-harmful materials (i.e. cadmium, although … Read more

Quantum Dots Push LCDs to 90% Rec.2020

SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics, has examined the use of a quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) to cover more of the Rec.2020 colour gamut with an LCD display. Rec.2020 was originally defined for laser projectors – today’s LCD and OLED displays cannot achieve full coverage. SPIE retrofitted two consumer-level LCD displays (a … Read more

HP’s Large-as-a-TV ‘Monitor’

As part of a significant desktop PC rollout, HP has introduced three new AIO PCs and an UltraHD monitor. The new Pavilion AIO PCs (currently unnamed), in 21.5″, 23″ and 27″ sizes, have 1920 x 1080 resolution (we are unsure of the panel type and are checking with HP). They have edge-to-edge-glass and users can … Read more

iPhone Case Harvests Energy From Radio Waves

Nikola Labs, from Ohio, showed a new iPhone case at TechCrunch Disrupt this month, which harvests power to extend battery life. The case ($100) will debut on Kickstarter in June. Radio waves are converted into DC power, using excess energy from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular signals. The conversion – using technology from Ohio State University … Read more

Vodafone Has Large, Affordable Phones

UK mobile operator EE recently unveiled its own smartphones (EE Has Own-Brand Products – From BenQ), and now the competition has taken its turn. Vodafone’s Smart Prime 6, Smart First 6 and SmartTab Prime 6 are Android units covering the low- and high-end. Beginning with the entry-level, the Smart First 6 runs Android 4.4 on … Read more

Faroudja Enhances Epson Images

Epson’s Powerlite 4770W is a 3LCD unit with video enhancement technology from Faroudja. DCDi Cinema provides a range of features to improve image quality without introducing artefacts. One of DCDi Cinema’s technologies is directional correlational deinterlacing (DCDi), which removes the jagginess that can be introduced by resolution upconverters. Others include Film Mode Detection, which detects … Read more