purpleStyx
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: MegaDef? |
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Anyone hear of these new MegaDef camcorders? Supposedly high def looks fuzzy in comparison. Google doesn't have any news on it, but an article in UK's PCFormat said the following:
| Quote: | No sooner has High Def finally begun to find its way into living rooms across the UK, but Tefal heads at a Japanese conglomorate Kawaitech are pimping a new technology that has been nattily labeled MegaDef. Intriguingly, the company has ditched traditional CRT, LCD and plasma methods entirely, relying instead on recent discoveries in organic display technology to generate some mind-boggling resolutions.
MegaDef works on the principle that by accessing an electrical current through artificially farmed cellulose, the substance can be made to flex and deform, refracting light to produce colored points smaller than the eye can see. A membrane containing hundreds of millions of these tiny cells can create images equivalent to a resolution of 20,480x16,384 in a 19-inch panel.
Sony, Toshiba and Sharp, who up until now have been willy-waving over the size of screens rather than the resolution, are all rumored to be interested. What PCFormat's keen to find out, though, is how this will affect GPU technology and what the eventual price of consumer items will be.
Currently, Kawaitech admits there is a rather crude upscaling algorithm running, but that if graphics processors could be modified to provide polygon data direct to your screen, you'd see a break from the traditional correlation between screen resolution and hardware performance requirements. Needless to say, we'll [PCFormat] be keeping a firm eye on this particular story over the coming months. |
I guess there is also an Ultra High Definition Video format in development with the highest known resolution being 7680x4320: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHDV
Just reminds me of all the buzz about Red.
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