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Video Processing

Mitsubishi: Upscale to 4K2K

February 16, 2010

Mitsubishi has upscaling technology that takes 1080p content to 4K2K. Exciting! But don’t get carried away: Blu-ray content upscaling to 4K2K is not yet. HDMI 1.4 is supported though. Expect future Mitsubishi TVs to sport 4K2K displays and the technology to upscale 1080p to fill all those pixels. Source: Akihabara News

SublimeVideo Supports Firefox

February 11, 2010

SublimeVideo is probably one of the most exciting developments in HTML5 for video playback. In the last post (read SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player) I was amazed at the stutter-free video playback on Chrome and Safari. Now you can experience the same amazing Flash-free video on Firefox. Source: Jilion via Daring Fireball

SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player

February 1, 2010

Like the name the video is sublime. The video didn’t stutter once, even at full screen (1920 x 1200) and during resizing. And all of this without a browser plugin or Flash. Only works on Safari (v4.0.4+), Google Chrome (v4.0+), and IE with Chrome Frame installed with Firefox support to come. I have seen the [...]

YouTube Launches 1080p

November 24, 2009

Back on November 16, 2009 Home Theater Review reported that Lifehacker.com expected YouTube to launch 1080p video service soon. Well, YouTube did. When you hit the ‘HD’ button on some videos you have two choices: 1080p or 720p. Note: You can view 1080p content from YouTube without having a 1080p capable display. Source: Home Theater [...]

HP MediaSmart EX495: Dual Core, 7TB, Time Machine, Built-in Video Converter, iStream

September 15, 2009

Photo courtesy: Engadget (I took the liberty of cropping, changing it to black & white, adding a bit of saturation, increasing contrast and reducing the exposure just a bit.)
At first glance I thought the new EX495 was just an updated home server from HP. The EX495 replaces the EX487 (and the slower EX490 replaces the [...]

NEC Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP) uPD9245GJ: Single Frame Super Resolution Technology

February 4, 2009

On February 4, 2009, NEC Electronics announced its low-power application specific standard product (ASSP) based on the company’s single frame super resolution technology, part number uPD9245GJ. What does this ASSP do? The uPD9245GJ “sharpens out-of-focuse images, smoothes rough edges, refines contours by analyzing and processing information contained in one frame of data in real time.” [...]

MotionDSP on CUDA at NVISION 08

August 21, 2008

Tired of crappy video from your mobile phone or digital camera? MotionDSP has got a solution for you.

Today, I spoke with Dr. Sean Varah, CEO of MotionDSP, about the technology behind the company’s FixMyMovie (www.fixmymovie.com) service. First, what is FixMyMovie? MotionDSP’s FixMyMovie service “automatically cleans your movies with MotionDSP’s advanced video technology.” You upload a [...]