Toshiba addresses HD encoding noise

HIGH DEFINITION PICTURES have their own problems. Like annoying banding on similar colours and suchlike.

Now, along with several key LCD panel improvements, Toshiba introduced PixelPure3G, a technology aimed at cleaning up HD images.

One of the features of this technology is the use of a 14-bit interface rather than an 8-bit interface. This allows for increased levels of gradation. The firm claims those annoying banding issues common on images with similar colours (including flesh tones) are cleaned up dramatically.

One of the other key features under the PixelPure3G banner is the reduction of compression artifacts. While compression artifacts on standard definition appear as blocks, on HD images they appear as fluttering pixels which can't make up their mind what colour they want to be.

The introduction of PixelPure3G addresses those noisy pixels and is claimed to clean up the picture. µ