Ambiglow: What is it?
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Philips Evnia Ambiglow is an innovative lighting technology that allows RGB colors to follow audio and video content while gaming. Marketed as an exclusive technology for Evnia monitors, it works to create the ultimate immersive experience when gaming.
If you’re still getting familiar with this term, you may be wondering what it is and how it works: Essentially, RGB lights located in the backside of Evnia monitors interact with the game being played to react and change color based on actions relayed on the screen. This creates a vivid experience for viewers, which makes them feel more immersed in the game.
Ambiglow monitors: A Truly Visual Experience
Gaming is all about the visual experience and gamers demand the best visual experience possible.
With the Philips Evnia Ambiglow feature, gamers can configure the lighting in the room to create the ideal “ambiance” for any type of gameplay. This ambient lighting, hence the name “ambiglow”, can follow audio and video content when adjusted to the correct settings.
One model that showcases the Ambiglow lighting very well is the Philips Evnia 49M2C8900 monitor. Not only does it have a large 32:9 SuperWide screen, but it also has a QD OLED panel that produces excellent picture quality. When combined with Ambiglow lighting, this monitor makes for a picture experience that is hard to beat.
For more information about the Philips Evnia 49M2C8900 monitor, please find the dedicated product page here.
Ambiglow Gaming: How Does it Elevate My Experience?
The Philips Evnia Ambiglow feature takes gaming visuals to a new level by emitting ambient lighting that synchronizes with the on-screen action, thereby effectively extending the gaming experience and reinventing the rules beyond typical monitor functions.
So, for any product in the Evnia 7000 or 8000 monitor series, the Ambiglow light settings can be adjusted and configured in the monitor’s OSD settings.
Ambiglow vs Ambilight: What is the difference?
While scrolling the internet, you might have heard of Philips Evnia Ambiglow and Philips Ambilight. So, what’s the difference?
The main difference between Ambiglow and Ambilight is that Ambiglow is for Evnia monitors, whereas Ambilight is built for Philips TV. They have almost the same functions, but the application of the lighting is different.
With regards to Ambiglow for Philips Evnia gaming monitors, it is the ideal option for a sensory experience that completely immerses you in the game. For the Evnia product line, all 7000 and 8000 series monitors are equipped with Ambiglow lighting. If you would like more information regarding the Philips Evnia Ambiglow products, please feel free to visit our product pages here.
In DRC, Pact and private-sector partners help thousands of artisanal miners to improve health, safety and legal compliance
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Bitala Mushoga is a father of five who supports his family in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an artisanal miner. He is a member of the Mining Cooperative for Community Development of North Kivu (COMIDECONOKI). Like the other miners in his cooperative, for a long time, he mined without protective equipment. Every day, he set to work knowing how dangerous it was.
“When I got to the tunnel face, I used to wonder whether I was going to make it out alive,” says Mushoga, 46. “I was exposed to several risks. I could bump my head against the roof of the pit, fall through the rock fragments inside the pit and die.”
With support from Pact and local NGO partner BEPAT, through the Responsible Sourcing Project, Mushoga and the rest of his cooperative have made important changes. The miners now have personal protective equipment, and they received valuable training on occupation health and safety. The Responsible Sourcing Project is funded by AOC International (Europe) B.V. and MMD-Monitors & Displays Nederland B.V.
“With this and other safety measures, my colleagues and I are now safe from dangers inside our pits,” Mushoga says.
Recently completed, the Responsible Sourcing Project reached more than 7,200 miners, 400 government agents and 700 community members throughout its three years of programming. This included a total of 3,914 mining operators and community members (3,369 men and 545 women) in 2023.
Overall, the project was successful in working with government, industry and artisanal miners to improve miners’ health, hygiene and safety (OHS) at mining sites through training and awareness-raising activities. The project focused on the application of the 2018 DRC Mining Code and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). With the project’s support, ASM operators took ownership of the guidance, which aims to increase their safety and productivity.
Continued successful progress was achieved in the last year of project implementation, including project partners’ increased capacity to disseminate the mining code and regulations. The project increased miners’ awareness on the worst forms of child labor and improved their ability to denounce abuse and violence through the organization of 128 awareness raising sessions to popularize the mining code and regulations, and the distribution of 250 simplified mining code manuals.
Key stakeholders, including mining cooperatives, state services, the mining police and mining communities’ residents, now know their responsibilities regarding responsible mining. Mineral traders understand the importance of acquiring their traders’ cards, and ASM stakeholders, including communities living around mining sites, are now well acquainted with the texts governing artisanal and small-scale mining. The various government services, including SAEMAPE, also strengthened and supported awareness raising among ASM stakeholders and communities living near mining sites to ensure compliance with the legislation governing ASM.
Thanks to the project’s numerous awareness-raising campaigns, in the five target mining sectors (Kibabi, Matanda, Shasha, Karuba and Ngungu), there were many examples of ASM operators undertaking activities to ensure compliance and application of the mining code. For example, partner mining cooperatives became involved in rehabilitating key community feeder roads used for transporting ore and farm produce, as well as constructing bridges linking mining areas. Thanks to awareness raising implemented by their cooperatives, miners are now acquiring legal documents and are denouncing and combating mining fraud.
Last year’s awareness-raising sessions on OHS were organized with the participation of artisanal miners, mining community members and mining state services, including SAEMAPE and the mines police. The sessions discussed several aspects of OHS at mining sites, including keeping an OHS register and following up with corrective actions; communicating and signposting hazards on sites; raising the importance of wearing personal protection equipment (PPE); underground ventilation to combat asphyxiation; dewatering and stopping groundwater ingress and shaft drownings; shaft lining and support; mine safety and measures to protect against cave-ins, landslides and shaft collapses; open-cast mining and stabilization of stopes; occupational hygiene; waste rock management and environmental protection; first aid and the construction of latrines on sites to combat the risk of diarrhea diseases; the construction of sheds and first-aid posts on sites; the ban on night mining; and reminders of the accidents that can occur when working at night.
For miners like Mushoga, the improvements in his profession have made all the difference.
“I would like to thank the leaders of my cooperative who thought of us after the many awareness-raising interventions,” he says. “I hope the cooperative will find more ways to equip other mining operators.”
Full HD Resolution: Does it Produce Good Imagery?
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High resolution in general refers to something that showcases lots of details. High Resolution thus happens when there is a higher concentration of pixels, allowing the details to be depicted in all their glory. The resolution of a monitor is calculated by the number of distinct pixels that can be displayed, and it results in a long list of standards in the monitor industry – starting from the most common one, FHD.
1. What is Full HD Resolution?
A useful info to know when talking about monitor resolution is knowing that it is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels. So, while High-Definition (HD) describes a screen that is either 720p or 1080p, Full HD (FHD) boasts a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. This means that a FHD display has 1920 pixels horizontally by 1080 vertically, more than 2 million pixels overall. This resolution provides a good level of detail and sharpness, but there are higher resolutions available that can offer even better visuals.
2. Is Full HD better than 4K?
Comparing FHD and 4K on the ability of showcasing detailed images is a bit unfair: 4K resolution has 4 times the number of pixels of FHD, so more precise and accurate reproduction. For the home office or for corporate, FHD resolution provides a clear and comfortable visualization that can support users through long working hours. The Philips 241V8AW meets the needs of any home with great value with essential features, at an affordable price – it matches FHD resolution with some extra features, like anti-glare, LowBlue mode and flicker-free for an easy-on-the-eyes user experience. For corporate, on the other hand, the Philips 273S1 combines comfort and connectivity for enhanced productivity, matching its FHD resolution with future-proof features like USB-C.
- For more info on the Philips 241V8AW, please check out the product page here.
- For more info on the Philips 273S1, please check out the product page here.
3. What is higher than FHD?
FHD is now commonly seen as the standard, a good resolution to work or study comfortably, perfect for most home offices. Then comes QHD resolution, 4K UHD, 5K and 8K. QHD (or Quad High Definition) resolution provides four times the clarity of standard HD resolution, namely 2560 x 1440 pixels, or 3.7 million pixels. Here you can find more info on this resolution and how this can support. 4K UHD (yes, 4K and UHD are the same resolution, but you delve into its secrets here) offers a resolution 4 times clearer (with 4 times more pixels) than Full HD panels. Less common in the monitor industry are 5K and 8K – and therefore more expensive.
4. Is Full HD good for gaming?
FHD will deliver good picture quality and high refresh rate, making it an ideal choice for plenty of gamers, whether they play just to relax, or are beginners or are on a budget. Its vibrant and detailed graphics will match most of the games available and will be particularly appreciated for streaming. The Philips Evnia 25M2N5200P, for example, boasts FHD resolution and 280Hz refresh rate, with AMD FreeSync™ Premium and low input lag for an unmatched gaming experience. For more information about the Philips Evnia 25M2N5200P monitor, you can check out its product page here.