This has been a long series of posts, the longest I wrote. The aim in presenting these Megatrends was to stimulate discussion and quite a bit occurred, I received several comments out of some 30,000 views. Wow! That’s why I decided to revise all posts and create an ebook (you can …
Read More »8K for our homes
It is now about a year (since last CES, the physical one back in 2020, not a virtual one like this year) that 8k television has become available (it has a definition of 7680×4320, vs a 3840×2160 of a 4k television). But you needed big pockets to get one (consider …
Read More »Why go for an 8K television when the 16k can be ’round the corner?
Once television shifted from analogue to digital the road was open to increase the image resolution. From the analogue systems based on 576 or 480 lines (both having 720 dots per line) we moved to Full HD at the end of the last decade and now we are seeing more …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – V
The success of the distribution of the movie “Trolls World Tour” has made the headlines of many newspaper, It has generated more revenues (over 100 million$) to Universal than the first movie, a hit in 2016, did during the first 5 months in movie theatres. The harsh protest by the AMC …
Read More »When the artefact is better than the original …
Artificial intelligence is becoming a powerful tool that can be applied to a variety of context. In image processing it is used for a better rendering of the data captured by the digital sensor but it can also be used to work on an image that has been captured with …
Read More »Self Flying Camera
There are quite a number of drones, in the market and in the air, that are carrying a digital camera for breathtaking photography and filming from the 3rd dimension. Actually, the success of drones can be tied mostly to their capability of carrying a camera and opening a new world …
Read More »For those who are in a hurry: 2.9GB/s transfer rate
HDTV was considered to be amazing, the real thing. In just a few years (HDTV started around the change of the century) HDTV has become a low resolution choice, 4k is now leading. From a user perspective what matters is the screen and it is easy to understand that cramming …
Read More »The race to more storage capacity is still on
I haven’t been posted for quite a while news on the evolution of storage performance. Moore’s law has come to a halt in 2015 in terms of economic squeezing of cost per transistor but industry kept working on improving storage media under the pressure of end users demand. The shift …
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