Category: Graphics & display
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Sony leaves LCD market
After announcing its intention to leave the market of plasma screens, Sony would be about to do the same with the LCD monitors. Being only the 10th world manufacturer of such screens on a world market terribly competitive (margins are plumetting) and whose growth is decreasing rapidly after two good years, Sony would be preparing…
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MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface
It has been a long time since I started to tell you about the lack of HDMI-ready PC graphics cards on the market. It leads to the impossibility to display correctly HD-TV from a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD from your PC (even with the most powerful graphics cards). But, today, MSI announces such a card.…
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AMD/ATI – Matchmaking in the Summer
The rumour has just been launched by TheInquirer.net: AMD, the microprocessor manufacturer could buy ATI, the designer of system chipsets and graphics chips. Of course, questions are still open before the public proposal (on Monday) to the shareholders (for example, “where will AMD find the needed money?”). But the merger would bring significant advantages to…
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June, month of HDMI graphic cards
All information points to June 2006 being the month when we will see the first graphics cards compatible with the HDMI standard for HD television and screens. Up to now, none was available. But ATI and others are preparing their first HDMI-compatible cards and it seems that the price difference between HDMI-compatible and plain cards…
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E3, Los Angeles game show
This is not a full review of this great game show, but I wanted to point at a few of the important items that could be extracted from this event. Crysis, the new First Person Shooter (FPS) of Crytek (previously author of the much acclaimed FarCry) seems to be totally impressive with a crazy jungle…
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Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way
The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…