Camera industry in the 21st-digital-century... vs smartphone market's advent

An Internet service provider called Webpass sells consumers 500Mbps upload and download speeds for just $55 a month—and instead of selling it over fiber or cable, the company says it delivers the service with point-to-point wireless technology. The service is targeted at multi-unit residential buildings and businesses; the company also plans to install fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) in some locations, but hasn't done so yet.
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http://arstechnica.com/information-...dband-for-55-a-month-offered-by-wireless-isp/
 
This is a new development. Samsung is only making AMOLED displays for smartphones and LG is only making OLED for big TV's. This may bridge the gap and make for some very nice desktop/laptop monitors/screens.

Quantum Dot technology looks set to be the next great stride in consumer displays. We’ve already seen it implemented in laptops via the Asus Zenbook NX500, but Phillips is set to become the first manufacturer to implement it in a desktop monitor later this summer.

The 27-inch Phillips 276E6ADS is already available in China, and will be released in Europe and the United States before the end of the summer. A partnership with QD Vision has allowed the company to become the first to offer the level of fidelity offered by Quantum Dot technology in this sort of device...
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/phillips-to-introduce-first-quantum-dots-monitor-this-summer/
 
Rumors are - and have been for half a year or so - that the new iPhone (#7, if you're counting) coming out around September, will have a dual lens-dual sensor camera that will achieve a Lytra like effect with the aid of software (expected to be provided by an Israeli Corephotonics company, whose products have been discussed for several years now). Two different optical length lenses will allow both an optical zoom and a post-facto refocus.

Apple isn't commenting. The dual sensor idea has been talked about a while but its performance - the execution requires a lot of processing power - has allegedly been improved enough to be ready for the mass market.

Off Image Sensor World, there are also companies working on a multi-lens/multi-sensor approach too, with half a dozen or so units on a single smartphone body.
 
I assume other cable/broadband providers won't be far behind.


What's the point of owning a future-proof 4K TV when you're stuck upconverting regular HD shows and movies? Comcast is answering the call for 4K content with the announcement of an ultra HD-capable set-top box to debut later this year for its Xfinity service. Customers will get 4K/UHD (3840 X 2160-pixel) video the only way it's currently practical — as online streams.
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http://www.tomsguide.com/us/4k-set-top-box-comcast-xfinity,news-20890.html
 
While most people are still trying to wrap their heads around 4K displays (and 8K screens aren't that far off), Samsung is setting up an even more ambitious milestone: It wants to build an 11K mobile display by 2018, reports Korea's Electronic Times. Yes, 11K! That's an eye-melting 2,250 pixels per inch, around four times higher than Samsung's existing quad-HD mobile displays.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/10/samsung-11k-display/?ncid=rss_truncated

So, it seems like 8K cameras are on the horizon and Samsung is getting ready to display the 8K footage anywhere and everywhere.
 
You may not have to pony up for a streaming video service (or any service, for that matter) to get 4K video on your TV in the future. GatesAir, LG and Zenith have started field-testing Futurecast, a system that promises to drag over-the-air TV into the modern era. Thanks to HEVC video compression as well as boosts to overall throughput, the technology can stuff both 4K and two mobile broadcasts into a relatively small 6MHz frequency range. With enough bandwidth, you'd only need a set of rabbit ears to watch at least a few basic channels in Ultra HD.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/12/...n=Feed:+mbfbusinessyahoo+(MBF+Yahoo+Business)
 
Comcast on Monday released its South Florida pricing plans for its Gigabit Pro, its new premium service offering Internet speeds of up to 2 gigabits per second, on the same day it also announced Internet speed increases of 50 percent for existing customers.　


In Florida, Comcast is offering its Gigabit Pro — with speeds twice as fast as its competitors — first to its 1.3 million customers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties as well as in the Jacksonville area. Promotional pricing will begin at $159 a month for a three-year contract, spokesman Mindy Kramer said.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article27113674.html
 
Smartphones are pushing back ... and forward with faster speeds and greater capacity.

The (SanDisk) iNAND 7232 is a new chip that has an embeddable flash drive that can offer users not just more storage, but also faster memory. Built on SanDisk’s latest 15nm 3-bit-per-cell flash storage technology, the memory chip is available in capacities from 32GB to 128GB and is set to offer “terrific 4K Ultra HD video capture and digital photography experiences never before possible in flagship smartphones,” according to the company.

Performance-wise, iNAND 7232 chips offer sequential write speeds of up to 150MB/s (a 25% increase from the previous model) and sequential read speeds of up to 280MB/s
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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/3-ways-tiny-sandisk-chip-significantly-improve-next-190907582.html
 
EPL in 4K in the UK!

When the Premier League kicks off again in two weeks, we'll see new teams and fresh faces, but there'll also be a new way to catch the action as it unfolds. That's all thanks to BT's new Ultra HD box, which will offer coverage of Saturday evening and mid-week matches in glorious 4K. While the new Humax-made YouView box has been available to purchase over the phone for around a week, BT has today opened up online orders, making it much easier to get your living room ready for when Arsenal meet Chelsea in the FA Community Shield on August 2nd and the lunchtime kickoff between Manchester United and Tottenham on August 8th.


If you're interested in making the upgrade, there are a few things you should know first. You will need to pay a one-off connection/installation fee of £44 for the Ultra HD service and you must have BT Infinity broadband for it to work (it operates independently of your normal internet, so download speeds won't be affected). BT says you'll only need its "up to 38Mbps" broadband tariff to get the channel, so as long as your line is capable of supporting 44Mbps, you're good to go.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/25/bt-ultra-hd-box-package-order/
 
So, the UK is ahead of the US in 4K cable/satellite. At, least, they are as of now.

Just days after BT began selling its Ultra HD box online, broadcasting rival Sky appears ready to show off its own 4K hardware. The Telegraph reports that the pay TV provider is just weeks away from launching "SkyQ," an Ultra HD set-top box that will reportedly let subscribers watch or record at least four programmes at once. Like the EE TV box, Sky's player will also share broadcasts across smartphones and tablets, as families increasingly shift towards smaller screens....
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/27/sky-launching-skyq-4k-box/
 
Today, Intel and Micron have announced a new memory technology that promises to be so fast, it reminds me of an old Steven Wright joke - "I put instant coffee into a microwave oven and almost went back in time".

It's called 3D XPoint (pronounced Cross Point) and is supposed to be 1,000 faster than NAND (flash) and 10 times faster than SSD. Samples will ship by the end of the year, production slated for Q1 2016. Here's the best summation I found.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/07/28/intel_micron_live_reporting_3d_xpoint_memory#.VbfZHvkYEoU
 
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