On Saturday 10 September 2005 3:58 am, James Ogle wrote: > Devan Lippman wrote: > > On 9/9/05, *Brandon Beattie* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Personally, I think plasmas are a bad choice and LCD has too slow of > > a pixel response time. DLP is by far my choice for best > > picture. Single > > unit (rear projection) units use projectors in them anyway. I > > find the > > fact that the viewing able is critical in them so the image isn't too > > dark from a side, or when sitting on the floor. A projector and > > screen > > give much better results for view angle. > > > > > > > > Save your money for OLED, prolly one to two years away but I'm > > guessing with all the money dumped into the TFT Fabs the same > > companies are gonna keep the price point high on the OLEDs. The nice > > thing about them however is they are an active device so they control > > the light emitted (almost 100% energy efficient too so low on heat) > > rather than filtering it like LCD so you get incredible viewing angles > > and fantastic contrast (I think they were saying something like 5000:1 > > for contrast and a brightness of 600 nits). Its also pretty fast and > > super thin. Once they get these babies lasting 30000 hrs plus I don't > > think there'll be much to compete. In fact I might have seen the link > > here talking about Samsung getting ready to release a 40" or 50" model > > thats 3" deep! > > Lifetime is still a problem with OLED, The O stands for organic. It > breaks down in the presence of UV light, and deteriorates with heat. > They have made some big gains in lifetime recently, 5 years ago they > were measuring lifetime in 10's of hours. > > The process to make the OLED is basically a printing process, and > promises to be much much cheaper in the long run then manufacturing LED. > Makers are planning on thin replaceable screens that you can get for not > too much money (i hope) that you replace every few years. The materials > that go into a 60" screen will eventually be cheaper then the refined > quartz in projector bulbs.
I think the technology you're looking for is SED. Google for "sed toshiba" for the details. Basically, it's a flat CRT - all the advantages of a CRT with the power usage of an LCD. Each pixel is its own CRT, but only has to discharge across a tiny distance. I believe the first sets are due out in late Q4 or early Q1. -- Harry O. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
