Tags: Green IT, IT products, LCD display, USA
The annual “meeting of the minds” in the display industry will meet next week to discuss industry trends, analyze market opportunities and forecast the future of the display and TV business around the world. The annual Display Search US Flat Panel Display Conference offers manufacturers, channel partners and industry analysts the chance to explore current and future markets for display products. TCO will be there and be assured, there will be plenty of talk about Green IT solutions. Look for my blog posts direct from the conference. For more information log onto www.displaysearch.com
Tags: Add new tag, computer display, ICT products, image quality, laptop, LCD display
The Iphone pointed out the direction and the rest of the industry is eager to follow. The touchscreens are coming! It’s not that new of course. Touchscreens have been around for some time in ATMs and similar applications. But now with the launch of Windows 7 the road is paved. Many of the major brands have already launched notebooks with touchscreens. I just can’t help but wonder what the glossy screen will look like after a few hours…
Posted by Martin Soderberg
Tags: computer display, LCD display, monitor, USA
One real highlight this year was the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio, USA. For all of us display fanatics this conference is the place to be when it comes to new innovations and product development. Some very interesting new products were all those with electronic ink which are readable in daylight. Several new OLED displays where also on show, some thin as paper, still with excellent colour, brightness and response time. Just take a look at this driver’s license, with an OLED display from Samsung, showing a film of the head of the person rotating instead of a static photo.
TCO’s motion blur study
Also at SID, a TCO funded user study on motion blur was presented. The purpose of the study was to identify a level of motion blur (blur created by moving images on a screen) that is comfortable for the average user. The results will be the base for a new standard for motion blur in the next revision of TCO Certified displays. More information at ww.tcodevelopment.com
Tags: energy saving, LCD display, monitor, Product Spotlight
The Fujitsu P22W-5 ECO is worth a look.
It boasts super sleek design, large viewable area and a power saving ECO button, allowing you to save around 30% in power consumption. Check it out…
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/displays_projectors/premium/scenicview_p22-5_eco.html
Tags: display performance, home entertainment system, home office, LCD display, readability
All displays are not created equal. Performance is important and there is a huge variation in how displays perform.
For consumers it is also a very important aspect when spending money on a product you expect to use for several years. To connect this post with previous bloggers I would like to point out that high performance is indeed an environmental aspect as these products are less likely to enter the waste stream prematurely. On top of that, high performing products ensure that the work task the product is intended for is achieved in an effective way without unnecessary burden on the user.
First let’s look at the LCD display as a part of your home office or home entertainment system. The display is the interface between you and the content.. It is like the keyboard for the eyes. Would you choose a keyboard that is not comfortable and work with it 8 hours a day, every day?
The way the display presents the information you are working with has a crucial impact on the way you experience it. And let me break the news to you… there can be a huge difference in how displays perform! The problem is that the user rarely realizes that the presented image content is not the correct one. It is often very hard to see unless you can compare the inaccurate display with a correct one. Imagine you have a visual defect. You won’t realize the extent of that defect until you get it corrected with glasses, and then the experience is often astonishing.
So we can assume many users are working with inaccurate or incorrect displays without realizing this problem. It’s like taking a temperature with a broken thermometer… you get a result, but can you trust it?
Here’s my top 3 display performance criteria:
1. The display should not present misleading image.
Examples are that colors may be wrong, light is not uniform or neutral grey levels get a color tint.
2. The display should not exclude any information from the image.
Examples are when near grey levels are merging and become impossible to distinguish between. Or when the display can not present enough colors to accurately show the image content.
3. The display should not have bad readability in different viewing conditions
Examples are when the characters have bad contrast, when the usable viewing angel is very narrow or when the maximum or minimum luminance of the display is not enough to compensate for the ambient luminance.
So what could be the effect of working with an incorrect display?
