Tag: LCD
CES 2008: Samsung launches Series 6 and Series 7 LCD HDTVs
It wasn’t just plasmas on show at Samsung’s CES press conference this morning. The company also unveiled new LCD tellies, the Series 6 and Series 7. They’re keen to shout about the new TVs’ design, which apparently takes inspiration from cars and fashion, in a “hint of amber naturally blended into the piano-black bezel frame” stylee.
Average TV size up to 60-inch by 2015 says Sharp
Think your 42-inch screen is impressive? Well, it’s going to be old hat by 2015, with average screen sizes set to rise to 60-inch says Sharp.
Sony quitting the rear projection TV business in favour of LCD
Sony has announced, by way of a spokesman, that once their current stock of rear projection TVs has gone, they’ll abandon the RPTV market in favour of LCD screens. They believe that LCD flat panel TVs are “what people really want” — not withstanding the fact that some rear-projection TVs, including Sony’s own — use LCD technology.
Perhaps the format is on the way out, despite still being popular, as Sony aren’t the first manufacturer to shift focus away from the technology in favour of plasma and, particularly, LCD.
LG.Phillips develops a "dirt-resistant" LCD screen
This will come in very handy. You know why. Fingerprints. Not just fingerprints, but little bits of food you spit out occasionally during the course of a mammoth in-bed laptop browsing session. It’s OK, everyone sprays a few droplets of gob on their screens a couple of times a day. There’s nothing wrong with your mouth.
Sailing to the rescue of smudged displays is LG.Phillips, which must be…
HDTVUK's Guide to the Ultimate High Definition Home Cinema Experience – Part One: High Definition TV
Our friends over at HDTV UK are doing a series to help you create the Ultimate High Definition Home Cinema Experience (er, in case the title of this post didn't give that away). The first part looks at the best way to start your HD experience – buying your first HDTV.
Samsung develops technology to use soda-lime bottle glass for LCD panels
Samsung’s gone bankrupt, donncha know? Well why else would they be manufacturing LCD panels using cheap-as-chips soda-lime bottle glass? It can’t produce a crisp, clear image with all those brilliant colours, can it? According to Samsung, it can.
They’ve just shown off a 19″ LCD panel at the FPD International show, and are currently planning to mass produce the…
Gain some geek cred this Halloween, and dress like an iPhone
Still looking for a geektacular costume to wear this Wednesday for Halloween? Quicksticks, call in sick at work for the next few days, so you have time to make what is bound to be the most marvelled-at costume at whatever party you attend.
Yes, it’s an iPhone costume, which has been created by hooked up an LCD TV to a video iPod, with the case made…
Waterproof Freeview LCD TV for your bathroom
Watching TV in the bathroom – the height of luxury. You may as well be eating truffles out of Evangeline Lilly’s belly button, it is THAT MUCH FUN.
Usually the preserve of the rich and decadent, only the finest hotels and fanciest apartments…
Sharp retaliates to Toshiba's claims of world's thinnest LCD, by announcing 0.68mm thin screen
Gee whiz, does Sharp move fast or what! It was only 24 hours ago Andy reported that Toshiba had eclipsed Sharp’s claims of having the world’s thinnest LCD TV, beating them by a crucial 6mm at the thickest part of the screen.
It appears once Sharp caught wind of Toshiba’s claims, they released details of a prototype LCD screen that measures just 0.68mm thick. Yes, that’s under one milimetre thick. How did they do it, you eager, HDTV-hungry readers ask? Well, err, the screen’s just 2.2-inches big. Sadly it’s been designed…
Toshiba claims thinnest LCD TV – for now – 23mm
In the world of high definition televisions, it's not just how big the TV is that counts, it seems, but how thin it is. Two months ago, it was Sharp boasting thin screens, with a prototype LCD TV just 20mm…
