Thursday, October 6, 2005

HDR Display Reviewed. Bringing HDR Experience to the masses.

10:06 am | Yaroslav Lyssenko

High Dynamic Range lightning is one of the technologies that is going to become a standard feature in the near future. While there aren’t a lot of graphics cards capable of performing HDR calculations, there appears to be another hardware limitation – the lack of appropriate displays.

Contemporary displays, both LCD and CRT, are unable to deliver true HDR experience. Modern monitors are all based on the architecture, which provides only Low Dynamic Range, thus preventing the graphics cards supporting HDR from showing their real best. BrightSide have built a new display based on latest technologies in order to provide true HDR experience.

“The BrightSide DR37-R EDR display theoretically has an infinite contrast ratio. How? Because it can turn individual LED backlights off completely (see How It Works), it has a black luminance of zero. When you divide any brightness value by this zero black value, you get infinity. Obviously, explaining that to Joe Public in your local Dixons or Best Buy is just going to confuse them, so BrightSide has reached a compromise: by using the next value up their scale from zero luminance as their denominator, they are able to claim an effective contrast ratio of a whopping 200,000:1. Stop for a minute to digest that number. The brightest point on the screen - 4,000 cd/mІ - is 200,000 times brighter than the darkest non-zero point, at less than 0.05 cd/mІ,” explains bit-tech.net .

• bit-tech.net: BrightSide DR37-P HDR Display .

Memory Module Manufacturing Process under a Magnifying Glass. A Tour of Corsair’s New Fab

10:03 am | Yaroslav Lyssenko

Hardware Secrets has managed to take a look at Corsair’s new factory in Fremont. The memory modules manufacturing process may seem very simple at first glance. However, in reality it takes multiple production stages for the small pieces of silicon called memory chips to turn into fully fledged memory modules.

“Corsair has recently moved to a new location in Fremont, California, and we had the chance of visiting their new facilities and compare it to their old factory we had the chance to visit in the beginning of this year. They are now in a bigger building, with one more production line (six lines, previously they had five lines), a new memory chip testing and sorting machine, more memory module testing stations and much more space for inventory, packing and shipping,” writes Hardware Secrets.

• Hardware Secrets: Corsair New Factory Tour in Fremont, CA, USA.

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