swimtech

Just saw this through an Inquirer article - the basis for their article is the Financial Times/UK. Link here:

FT.com / UK - Canon clear to launch new type of TV

Exciting news, but bad timing considering the credit problems worldwide and other factors.

__________________
It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Judas

swimtech.. have you seen or heard anything about the pure led screens..... they use micro leds..... multiple per colors per little dot... from what i read which i can't find the article now.... seems to be that they could theoretically make the led itself so small that UHD resolutions would be possible on say 24" monitors with little to no difficulty. Also repair would be much easier, not to mention lifetime of the monitor and brightness/color saturation, and bit per color reproduction.

I think i'd rather skip the SED and go to led.

__________________

swimtech

I heard just the same day I posted about that - a friend said he saw an article in MaximumPC I believe. Yeah, they'd be great for all the reasons you note - but might actually draw a relatively large amount of power (not sure though, but could...). I know almost nothing about those though...

The thing about SEDs is that the manufacturing could/should be so cheap - just spray a sheet with phosphors, lay over the etched electron guns also on a sheet, etc... Inkjet stuff.

The nice thing I like about both these technologies is that they will make a screen by transmitting light - like a CRT does - not by blocking light (LCD method). They'll inherently be brighter and more colorful.

Good LCD panels are cheaper now than CRTs were by far - one of these techs would have to beat it. That'll be tough, don't you think?

__________________
It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Judas

indeed it will.. with some 20/22" monitors now selling for the $150-250 range here in canada.....

Course the good quality ones are sitll expensive with the Samsung 2443BW still around the 350-450 mark...

The one thing i liked about LCD the most is the fact that the colors and the mechanics was the smooth transition from one shade or color to another, where as with CRTs and from what i can gather SEDs not to mention Plasma.... is a the blast of generated light, strobing.....

Obviously for the SEDs to really take a foothold would require to be just about as cheap, AND clearly superior in every way with no disadvantages.

This is where the hybrid led/lcd displays raise an interesting problem. Considering that with the newer hybrids they are able to disable or lower the brightness of individual LED backlighting on the lcd display, which in turn would produce higher brightness, color reproduction and the works.

I'm quite fond of the samsung LN52A650/750/850s... but after seeing the LN55A950 at work, and sitting beside the 850, it's considerably noticeably better.

__________________