sonyinsider.com - 11/20/2008
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In another post, we spoke about a October gala in NYC that had Gran Turismo 5 running at four times 1080 HD through a Sony SXHD projector. However, another item of interest was a playable demonstration on a Nano-Spindt FED / Field Emissions Display developed by Sony, with a frame rate of 240fps ...
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crunchgear.com - 11/20/2008
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crunchgear.com —
Because the human eye has an effective “refresh
rate” of around 30 frames per second, there is
a certain point at which even major increases or decreases in frames per second will have no visible effect. I’d place that number, off ...
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Gran Turismo 5 at 240fps - why?
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FED display runs Gran Turismo 5 at 240fps with no motion blur
SlashGear —
... emitters) per pixel, which cause a fluorescent substance to produce light. If that sounds vaguely similar to a CRT display, you’d be right; it also shares CRT’s wider view angles, deeper blacks, rich color tones and resilience to motion blur.
Viewers of the demonstration were apparently “baffled by the quality of the image”, which is probably what Sony were hoping for. The setup is intended more to publicise FEP than it is the PS3 console.
[via Sony Insider] ...
Gran Turismo 5 at 240fps - why?
CrunchGear —
... have no visible effect. I’d place that number, off the top of my head, around 100fps — at that point your eye isn’t going to “catch” the display in mid-update, as the refreshes will happen faster than our visuo-temporal granularity — so movement appears completely continuous and no interpolation is done by the eye, which interpolation, paradoxically, is what makes 24p such a convincing frame rate for film.
But all those big words didn’t stop Sony from showing GT5 at 240fps, though! Using four PS3s working in parallel ...
FED Display Chugs Along At 240fps
Homotron.net —
... performance improvement: a wider viewing angle, superior blacks (Hi Taye Diggs!), richer tones, and no blurring of moving image outlines.
For this demo, four PS3s were used as one to quadruple the usual framerate of 60fps - and the resulting 240fps of Gran Turismo 5 sweetness must have been phenomenal. Now all we need to do is skip ahead ten years to when FED displays are manufactured and don't cost five digits. Hey, maybe this is science fiction after all.
Sony Shows Off Gran Turismo 5 At 240FPS On A FED Display [SonyInsider]
Sony demos 19-inch FED display running Gran Turismo 5 at 240 fps
Engadget —
... FED (or Field Emission Display) hasn't quite caught on as quickly as some other display technologies, but Sony's still out there doing its best to move things forward, and it certainly looks to have turned more than a few heads with its latest demo. Apparently ...
Sony demos 19-inch FED display running Gran Turismo 5 at 240 fps
Engadget HD —
... FED (or Field Emission Display) hasn't quite caught on as quickly as some other display technologies, but Sony's still out there doing its best to move things forward, and it certainly looks to have turned more than a few heads with its latest demo. Apparently ...
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