Tag archive: LCD

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting development of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony will continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television manufacturer will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market. Sony first rolled out a model of an OLED for the consumer market in 2007, but the expensive price tag of the Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV was difficult to… Read More

Teaming up with chip maker Marvell, the One Laptop Per Child non-profit organization will be at CES displaying the XO 3.0 tablet designed for children in South American and African countries. Coming in at a scant $100 price tag for the base model, the tablet utilizes Marvell's 1Ghz PXA618 processor in addition to 512MB of RAM and runs on both Google Android Honeycomb as well as OLPC's custom Linux operating system. Shipping with an… Read More

New York State Attorney General A.G. Schneiderman has announced a multi-state settlement proposal that would see seven major LCD display manufacturers paying $553 million to settle charges they conspired to fix prices of flat-panel displays. The settlement has the companies paying a combined $538 million to settle price fixing charged; in addition, five of the companies will pay another $14 million to settle civil claims and penalties from… Read More

Quantum-dot technology has been on the verge of breaking into the mainstream for a while, with various companies exploring its use in all kinds of displays, and its advantages over LCD and OLED in televisions.  These advantages include lower power consumption, a longer lifetime and more physical flexibility. It's therefore only a matter of time before QD displays make it into stores, and British firm Nanoco has announced it's working… Read More

Art Lebedev, the Russian design studio behind the Optimus range of LCD keyboards, has made a new model available for pre-order on its site.  The Optimus Popularis is a more compact version of its full size models, such as the original Maximus we reviewed way back in 2008, but still boasts the same impressive level of customization. Here's how it works: Each key has a tiny 64 x 64 pixel LCD display beneath a plastic cover that can be… Read More

Whether you spend $400 or $4,000 on a new TV (or video projector), it is a sure bet that your new display needs some adjustments. It seems counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? You’d think that the manufacturers would set up their TVs to put out a beautiful, accurate image right out of the box. Aren’t they supposed to be the experts? Sure, but the manufacturers’ first priority is to get their TVs and projectors sold to you, and they have a lot of… Read More

Tired of your smartphone or laptop dying on you? UCLA engineers have figured out a way to use LCD screens to power electronic devices by harvesting energy from surrounding light sources. Liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, can be found in much of today's electronics such as TVs, smartphones, computers and more. These displays work using two polarized sheets sandwiching crystal molecules between them which act act as light valves. The… Read More

Panasonic, Japan's largest makers of consumer electronics, has announced a broad restructuring plan that will see the company shrink itself from five major divisions down to three, as well as cut some 17,000 jobs. The moves are intended to make the company more competitive with electronics manufacturers in South Korea and China, but also reflect Panasonic's efforts to cope with the disruptions and devastation generated by last… Read More

Sure, they might prove to be little more than a fad for stores looking for some unusual digital signage, but Samsung has begun mass production on 22-inch transparent LCD displays. That's right, you can see right through them. Samsung is making two versions—one with full color support and one that's black-and-white only—and the displays sport a 1,680 by 1,050-pixel resolution and a 500:1 contrast ratio. The idea behind… Read More

Notebook computers may have revolutionized the way most people think about computing, but if there's one thing desktop systems still have going for them, it's screen real estate. Desktop systems can support substantially larger monitors than a typical notebook—after all, there's a desk to put it on, and it doesn't have to fit in a bag! Moreover, many desktop systems these days support multiple monitor setups, and… Read More

A federal grand jury in San Francisco has returned an indictment against the current president of Taiwan's Hannstar Display Corporation, Ding Hui Joe (a.k.a. David Joe) for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices for TFT-LCD display panels from September 2001 through January 2006. The indictment makes Joe the 22nd executive to be charged in the broad-ranging conspiracy, which has also seen indictments, fines, and even jail… Read More

The head of Sony's TV division, Yoshihisa Ishida, expects TV prices to fall in the United States by the end of the year, reports Reuters. Weak demand and large inventories of unsold TVs are the main reasons for the price decline. “I think TV prices as a whole will of course fall. There is a lot of inventory in the market,” said Ishida at a press briefing in Tokyo. “But what is different from the past is that we cannot… Read More

Sometimes quality just takes a little longer. While Sharp may have disappointed CES audiences earlier this year by tweaking 2D quality rather than diving headfirst into 3D with every other major manufacturer, its hesitance appears to have paid off. With its recently unveiled Quattron 3D LCD televisions featuring a fourth yellow pixel, Sharp seems to have preserved the vivid color palette that made the Quattron technology a winner in two… Read More

Sharp's latest “Quattron” LCD HDTVs have attracted some attention via advertisements featuring an astonished George Takei (Star Trek's Mr. Sulu) gazing upon the red-green-blue-and-yellow four-color output of the displays. Now fans of high-definition digital video will have another reason to be astonished: the Aquos LE820 line will also feature support for DivX HD playback. Users will be able to load their DixV HD… Read More