HP ENVY17 3D Review - a 3D entertainment system and more
Posted by Jon Peddie on April 15th 2011 | Permalink
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The HP 17-inch ENVY laptop is delightful. It has one of the best 3D screens I have ever seen, and it comes with one set of 3D shutter glasses. It can show 3D movies and S3D games, as well as show 3D photos and Google Earth in 3D. The system's screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 on a 17.3-inch panel with 120 Hz refresh, TN panel with sRGB+ gammut and 400 NITS brightness. The display controller is an AMD Radeon 5850 with 1GB DDR5 video memory. It has an Intel Core i7Q740 Processor running at 1.73 GHz, with 4 GB DDR3…
The systems works; Revue reviewed again
Posted by Kathleen Maher on April 21st 2011 | Permalink
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We've been revisiting the Logitech Revue after it's been in the house and operating for several months now. In fact, if we had the time or the organizational skills it would make sense to have second takes on most of the products we review. The first review tends to be a look at getting a system set up and working and so, even if that's not what you want to really talk about, the set up experience colors the review. Especially if it was a complicated set up. All of which brings us to the Logitech Revue, a set-top box implementation…
The future is now: PC on your TV
Posted by Ted Pollak on May 18th 2011 | Permalink
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Imagine being able to launch an Internet browser (any browser) on your television screen from the comfort of your couch. Imagine being able to visit social and business networking sites, write a paper or letter in a word processor, create, review, and edit spreadsheets, view and edit family photos and video, watch stored and streaming hi-def video, and perhaps most important (personal bias injected), imagine being able to play PC games from your couch. Well you can right now, and it is amazing. And it does not require one of these new “internet enabled” televisions. In fact these new iTVs look…
The tablet is a blank slate - Review ArtRage for Apple iPad
Posted by Kathleen Maher on July 1st 2011 | Permalink
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Steve Jobs is not always right and in fact, he was totally wrong when he dismissed the idea of a stylus for his devices because among all the other things the iPad does well — remote control, movie player, presentation platform, and best friend on a lonely Saturday night — the iPad is turning out to be a really great piece of paper. We have downloaded several drawing program for the iPad and every single one of them is good. Just the current list of drawing tools on my computer includes Brushes, by Steve Sprang: $7.99; Autodesk SketchBook Pro: $4.99; Adobe…
Review Amimon WHDI: Remote HDTV from your PC
Posted by Kathleen Maher on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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Israeli based Amimon developed WHDI (Wireless High-definition Interface) chipsets. A fabless semiconductor company, Amimom established the WHDI concept for uncompressed wireless HD video for CE video devices. WHDI allows flat-panel televisions and multimedia projectors to wirelessly connect to HDTV video sources and obtain a quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces such as component video, DVI and HDMI, or so says the company. The company’s modules and reference designs are for the 5GHz unlicensed band of uncompressed HD video streams, and offer equivalent video data rates of up to 3 Gbps (including 1080p) using 40 MHz of bandwidth in compliance…
Handbook of Visual Display Technology
Posted by Jon Peddie on February 13th 2012 | Permalink
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Springer-SBM and Canopus Academic Publishing have announced the publication of the Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Across four volumes and more than 2600 pages, this comprehensive reference work covers all aspects of the science and technology behind displays, from the fundamentals of optics, vision and colour science, through electronic imaging, processing and manipulation, display driving, TFTs and materials science, flexible displays and touchscreens, display metrology, and concludes with a section on display markets and economic factors. Key sections are dedicated to specific display technologies: emissive displays including PDPs, LEDs and OLEDs; Paper-like displays including electrophoretics, electrowetting, electrofluidic and MEMS; 3D display systems…
Review of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti - Better than even the 6970
Posted by Jon Peddie on March 29th 2012 | Discuss (0)
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Announced in December, AMD began shipping the HD7950 in mid-January, and through the magic of modern transportation, one arrived here already, in mid-March, so obviously you’re anxious to read all about its performance characteristics. We have been anxious to put the board to work. For our tests, we run the most common benchmarks and then compare the results as far as price and performance and power to put a product in perspective for consumers. The 79xx series is based on AMD’s most recent Southern Island Series which are based on AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) technology. The 79xx series are 28nm…
Review AMD Radeon HD 7970 and Nvidia GTX 680 AIB
Posted by Jon Peddie on May 2nd 2012 | Discuss (0)
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The world’s two fastest graphics boards are compared—GTX 680 wins A month or so ago AMD released their top-of-the-line Radeon HD 7079. Demos were sent out to the company’s favorite reviewers (that means NOT you JPR) and results started being reported, it looked good. Then a week or two ago Nvidia released its GeForce GTX 680 Kepler (Yes JPR, even you can have one), and the comparisons began. In the meantime, by trading some vintage wine and rare out-of-print copies of TechWatch we were able to get a black market HD 7970 (no thanks to AMD). And so we ran some…
