Monday, 30 December 2013

Samsung "4K" 110-inch ultra-HD TV

Checking out on the latest sales of Samsung’s High Definition Television, I was amazed at the improvement, design and innovation behind this. The Samsung's Ultra-High Definition TV has well quite higher price tag on the ''Samsung "4K” 110-inch ultra-HD TV''. The HD TV which according to Samsung is a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs, and as well the price-tag won’t be definitely by anything be less, is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea.

The launch Monday of the giant television set reflects global TV makers' move toward ultra HD TVs, as manufacturing bigger TVs using OLED proves too costly.


Last year, Samsung and rival LG Electronics, the world's top two TV makers, touted OLED as the future of TV. OLED screens are ultrathin and can display images with enhanced clarity and deeper color saturation.


According to reports and reviews on the ''4K'' Ultra-HD TV;Samsung and LG failed to make OLED TVs a mainstream that would replace the LCD television sets and still struggling to mass produce larger and affordable TVs with OLED. Meanwhile, Japanese media reported last week that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. decided to end their OLED partnership.

Demand for U-HD TVs is expected to rise despite dearth of content while its price will likely come down faster than that of the OLED TVs. Much of the growth is forecast to come from China, a major market for the South Korean TV makers. Chinese TV makers have been making a push into the U-HD TV market as well.
According to NPD DisplaySearch, global sales of ultra-HD TV sets will surge from 1.3 million this year to 23 million in 2017. More than half of the shipments will be taken by Chinese companies between 2013 and 2017, according to NPD.
While Chinese TV makers have been seeking to boost sales of U-HD TVs with a lower price and a smaller size, Samsung's strategy is to go bigger with a higher price tag. Samsung's 110-inch U-HD TV measures 2.6 meters by 1.8 meters. It will be available in China, the Middle East and Europe. In South Korea, the TV is priced at 160 million won ($152,000) while prices in other countries vary.

Samsung said it received 10 orders for the latest premium TVs from the Middle East. Previously, the largest U-HD TV made by Samsung was 85-inch measured diagonally.
The ultra-HD TVs are also known as "4K" because they contain four times more pixels than an HD TV.

On the side of my reviews,I deeply salute the minds behind this great innovation for the invention of such a TV set, making viewing much more better.

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Patch



A patch is a software update comprised code inserted (or patched) into the code of an executable program. Typically, a patch is installed into an existing software program. Patches are often temporary fixes between full releases of a software package.
Patches may do any of the following:
  • Fix a software bug
  • Install new drivers
  • Address new security vulnerabilities
  • Address software stability issues
  • Upgrade the software
Patch explained by Techopedia
Software patches can be free or available for sale. Some companies deliver patches to registered users only. Patches are usually available as Internet downloads.

If the original source code is proprietary and not released to the general public, then patches are released as executable binary code. Patches alter the existing programming code by modifying it or replacing it completely.

Patches have become extremely important as a methodology for updating programs or new system security threats which appear regularly, especially in online environments. Formerly patches were installed manually. Today automatic updates are very popular and are available as self-installing packages from the software vendors support pages at their website.

Although patches can vary in size from several kilobytes to hundreds of megabytes, patches are usually perceived as being rather small. Common to Microsoft Windows operating system large patches are generally named service packs, and can be over 100Mb.


So,next time you face any issue with any of your PC programmes, make use of patching...

Posted by: Cory Janssen

Virus Signature



Definition - What does Virus Signature mean?
A virus signature is a string of characters or numbers that makes up the signature that anti-virus programs are designed to detect. One signature may contain several virus signatures, which are algorithms or hashes that uniquely identify a specific virus. A large number of viruses may share a single signature, allowing a virus scanner to detect viruses it has never seen before.

Techopedia explains Virus Signature
Generic or heuristic detection are the two types of scanning that anti-virus software employs when looking for virus signatures. Generic detection is not as effective as heuristic scanning because it neglects to locate new virus signatures, but it is better at finding new viruses that have been developed from existing virus families.

Heuristic detection methods encompass more than 250,000 new virus signatures and are most effective for locating new virus signatures. New signatures are created each time a new virus comes out so that they can detect the viruses during scans. It is necessary to create the new signatures as the new viruses cannot otherwise be detected.

When the anti-virus vendor has tested the new signature, the vendor sends it out in the form of a signature update so that it correlates to the users’ anti-virus scanning capabilities. This may also include signature replacements, or the removal of prior signatures when they are no longer able to properly scan for the revised signature viruses. That is why computer experts advise users to always update their anti-virus scanners when vendors send out packets.