Sony's Hi-Contrast Black Projection Screen

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Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection
Screen

Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection
Screen 06/18/2004 09:28 AM

So I saw this yesterday, then spent way too much time trying to track down a picture without subscribing to the Wall Street Journal (I steal my neighbor's copy), but it's too interesting not to mention. Apparently, Sony is showing off a new projector screen that is black (instead of the normal white or gray) that looks incredible even in high ambient light situations. What they've done is add a filter to the screen that only reflects red, green, and blue, ignoring (shunning!) white and yellow light from incandescent or fluorescent bulbs, and perhaps even that cursed floating hydrogen bulb, our sun. So that's great and all, but can we get a pic? Without paying $70, I mean?

I swear, once the Journal went to color they sold out all their indie cred.
Read [WSJ]

Better Picture of Sony's Black Backed
Projection Screen

Better Picture of Sony's Black Backed
Projection Screen 06/29/2004 10:21 AM

Remember Sony's "Black is Beautiful" projection screen? (I'm quoting myself, sadly.) Here's a slightly better picture that should give you some idea of what it looks like compared to a traditional off-white screen, even with a lot of ambient light. (Thanks, Rav!)

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Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection Screen [Gizmodo]

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs 04/07/2005 12:44 PM

JVC will introduce a few new rear projection TVs for the Japanese market, under the "Big Screen EXE" brand. The 61" "HD-61MD60" will cost 787,500 yen, and the 51" 682,500 yen. They do appear to have some nice specs, such as a 700cd/m² brightness on the 52 inch. But they're being marketed based on a low power consumption: 198W, not that we Americans really care. Speaking of Americans, JVC plans to introduce these two sets here in July, as well as add a 70" model.

Press Release [JVC]

Sony to sell large-screen LCD projection
TVs in China (AFP)

Sony to sell large-screen LCD projection
TVs in China (AFP) 09/08/2004 07:08 AM
AFP - Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said.

More Contrast Rich Movies With the New
Beamax High Contrast Fabric

More Contrast Rich Movies With the New
Beamax High Contrast Fabric 04/03/2005 03:55 AM
Available from April 1st, Beamax introduces the High Contrast screen fabric. The new High Contrast fabric increases the perceived deepness of the black projected on the screen. Additionally, the images are more easily seen in high ambient light conditions (daytime viewing and non-darkened rooms), because the darker parts of the projected images are more visible. The High Contrast fabric is currently available in the M, M-silver, A and A-Velvet screen series. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black

Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black 05/29/2004 09:18 PM

Looks like all those pastel PSPs Sony was showing at E3 were just a tease. According to an interview in Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Sony claims the various color PSPs were "just for reference. We plan to make the system black." I wouldn't worry too much, though. I'm sure if the PSP does well at all, color models will start showing up in no time at all.
Read [IGN via Portagame]

10.3: A possible fix for a black screen
during install

10.3: A possible fix for a black screen
during install 01/07/2004 04:32 PM
Many people have run into an issue during Panther install that causes a black screen. I have found that the problem may be caused by certain third-party memory. I removed my third-party RAM and the install went off without ...

Sony Projector Gets Bright Images From
Black Screen

Sony Projector Gets Bright Images From
Black Screen 06/23/2004 09:12 AM

PHP in contrast to Perl

PHP in contrast to Perl 07/15/2004 10:29 PM
just for my reference. i hate language wars.

Colour Bland: Contrast

Colour Bland: Contrast 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
This is the continuation of a series. View previous. Greyscale is only one method of removing colour from an image, and as it turns out, it's an unrealistic way of doing it. The term colour-blind is misleading - almost...

Contrast-o-meter and other adjustments

Contrast-o-meter and other adjustments 05/08/2004 04:10 PM
The zeldman.com redesign continues, with a new feature for laptop users.

13-March-2003 -- Compare and Contrast

13-March-2003 -- Compare and Contrast 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
Compare and Contrast -- Scientists develop 'brain chip' versus World's first brain prosthesis revealed...

By contrast... the Queen of England
seems to be English

By contrast... the Queen of England
seems to be English 07/17/2004 04:41 PM
According to this story in the BBC local boy Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his early 1990s development of HTTP, HTML, and a collection of open-source tools to work with those standards.  This distinguishes QE II from George W.  She apparently is occupied with something that relates to the life of the average citizen of her country, rather than concentrating on Iraq.

LG Electronics releases highest-contrast
PDP TVs

LG Electronics releases highest-contrast
PDP TVs 07/11/2004 06:38 AM
Maekyung Internet Jul 11 2004 11:10AM GMT

Color, Contrast & Dimension in News
Design

Color, Contrast & Dimension in News
Design 09/06/2002 03:35 AM

10.3: A cautionary tale regarding
modified display contrast

10.3: A cautionary tale regarding
modified display contrast 12/16/2003 11:18 AM
I recently noted that the screen display on my Panther system had suddenly changed. The pin-striping had disappeared and the fonts looked strange. Changing to another user returned the system to its usual appearance. Trashing...

Compare And Contrast Blogs And Reuters
On Joe Trippi's Speech

Compare And Contrast Blogs And Reuters
On Joe Trippi's Speech 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Want to see an example of spin? No matter what your politics are, it's interesting to note the vastly different takes the established media and some bloggers have on this morning's talk by Joe Trippi at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference. This morning I read the detailed notes from both Howard Rheingold and Ross Mayfield on Trippi's speech - which sounded interesting, if a bit unfocused. However, both sets of notes show that he clearly talked up the power of the internet while trashing the established "broadcast" media. So, when Reuters - a member of the broadcast media - writes up their own article on the talk, they spin it 180 degrees, and say that Trippi blamed the internet for the campaign's problems. The notes from the blogging attendees say Trippi called the campaign a "dot com miracle", and yet Reuters claims Trippi said the internet "hobbled" the campaign. These differing accounts of the same exact speech don't match at all - and it certainly looks like Reuters is the one doing the spinning here, taking a few quotes here and there out of context to make their point. With the bloggers' notes, you can see the context of what's being spoken about, and the Reuters report gives none of that. I'm not one who believes that bloggers are a "threat" to journalism, but the contrast here shows a perfect (if a bit scary) example of just how easy it is for the press to spin things to make their point.

Kerry makes push for contrast with
president (USATODAY.com)

Kerry makes push for contrast with
president (USATODAY.com) 09/07/2004 06:41 AM
USATODAY.com - Democrat John Kerry, playing off the president's middle initial, said Monday that "W stands for wrong - wrong choices, wrong judgment, wrong priorities, wrong direction for our country." He called the Iraq war "the most catastrophic" of President Bush's wrong choices.

Techdirt:Compare And Contrast Blogs And
Reuters On Joe Trippi's Speech

Techdirt:Compare And Contrast Blogs And
Reuters On Joe Trippi's Speech 02/11/2004 03:48 AM
calls out the difference .. the full scoop .. Techdirt

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FC Now: Projection Rejection

FC Now: Projection Rejection 04/02/2005 06:37 AM
A Company of Friends member emailed other members of his group earlier this week with the following question: Yesterday, I had a discussion with a client, an SVP of product management, who -- along with all present -- agreed that...

"Election Projection"

"Election Projection" 01/24/2004 05:15 AM

Cartography-Projection-GCTP-0.03

Cartography-Projection-GCTP-0.03 05/28/2004 12:33 AM

Gateway's new rear-projection TV

Gateway's new rear-projection TV 10/30/2003 10:20 AM
Gateway is getting even deeper into the television business. They're adding a 56-inch rear-projection widescreen TV to their line of LCD and plasma displays that is about one-third the depth of a regular rear-projection television. Read...

IBM boosts hiring projection

IBM boosts hiring projection 08/12/2004 01:23 PM
The computing giant bumps its already-hefty projection by 20 percent.

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments 06/09/2004 05:18 PM

Vizio RP56 56-Inch Projection TV

Vizio RP56 56-Inch Projection TV 07/21/2004 11:21 AM
Review: Vizio's new 56" rear-projection HDTV has a lot going for it. But when the rubber meets the road is it ready to race--or just spinning its wheels?

InFocus DepthQ: Cheap 3D Projection

InFocus DepthQ: Cheap 3D Projection 04/15/2005 09:59 AM

InFocus and Lightspeed Design Group are acnnouncing the InFocus DepthQ, an affordable 3D DLP projector that looks to me like a tweaked X2. It's not a solution for everyone—the 3D format are limited to "VESA VGA, page flip, stereo 3D format," and it requires the wearing of LCD shutter glasses—but it looks like many NVIDIA cards will support it, as well as some games (I'm not sure how much of the load is lifted by the video card driver and how much, if any, is done by the game). Still, it's cheap, at around $3,500, and uses solid Infocus technology. The only thing I can't determine is if it comes with a pair of shutter glasses or not (it looks like it doesn't).

Product Page [DepthQ]

Election Projection - 2004 Edition

Election Projection - 2004 Edition 01/23/2004 08:47 PM
2004 Election Projections Based On Current Polling Data

electionprojection.com/elections2004.html
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Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now

Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now 12/24/2003 12:38 AM
New York Times Dec 23 2003 11:52PM ET

New Computer-Aided Detection System
Detects Colon Polyps in Colons
Previously Obscured by Contrast-Enhanced
Fl

New Computer-Aided Detection System
Detects Colon Polyps in Colons
Previously Obscured by Contrast-Enhanced
Fl 01/05/2005 10:00 PM
Doctors Guide Jan 6 2005 2:04AM GMT

Thomson's new ultrathin rear projection
HDTVs

Thomson's new ultrathin rear projection
HDTVs 01/07/2004 07:12 PM
A pair of skinny new RCA Scenium rear-projection high-definition televisions from Thomson that use DLP technology (rather than plasma or LCD). The HDTVs should out...

" The US Census Bureau's Word Population
Projection "

" The US Census Bureau's Word Population
Projection " 04/08/2005 02:50 PM

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP)

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP) 03/24/2005 04:26 PM
AP - While digital projectors have been slow in making their entrance into American movie theater, Ireland is forging ahead to become the first country to convert all its movie theaters to digital projection.

Nippura's Curved Acrylic Projection
Screens

Nippura's Curved Acrylic Projection
Screens 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
The coolest thing about Nippura's 'Blue Ocean' rear projection screens isn't their visual acuity--which is said to be fantastic, but I've not seen it in person--but the fact that they've leveraged their extensive acrylic forming expertise to make screens that are not only frame-less, but can be molded into different...

Intel Delays Launch of Projection TV
Chip

Intel Delays Launch of Projection TV
Chip 08/17/2004 12:09 AM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Aug 17 2004 3:39AM GMT

Clear Solar Panels Double As Projection
Screens

Clear Solar Panels Double As Projection
Screens 08/07/2004 08:53 PM

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005 01/04/2005 01:23 PM
Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc. said on Tuesday it would start producing rear projection televisions later this year, aiming to secure a chunk of the rapidly growing market for big screen TVs. Canon also said it plans to invest in a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel joint venture by Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

It added, however, that details of the planned investment, including the size of the stake, have yet to be decided and it had no plan to make LCD televisions. "We are aiming to offer rear projection TVs on a commercial basis by the end of the year. Since they are to be used at schools and other public facilities, we don't expect them to sell as well as consumer goods," a Canon spokesman said. The rear projection TVs would be the second flat-panel TVs for Canon, which also plans to launch surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) TVs this year.

News source: Reuters

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Brazil Takes Lead in All-Digital Cinema
Projection

Brazil Takes Lead in All-Digital Cinema
Projection 02/17/2004 08:33 AM

Projection Says Pro-West Reformer Wins
Serb Presidency

Projection Says Pro-West Reformer Wins
Serb Presidency 06/27/2004 04:18 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 27 2004 7:46PM GMT
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