Picture fuzzy for organic thin TVs
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OLED TVs are thin and have a great picture. But most manufacturers will hold off for several years.
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By Stephanie Hoo, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 8--Picture this: A palm-sized video camera that you don't have to be a genius to operate. Or, a gizmo that slings your TV signal to any computer, anywhere.
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Thinner flat-panel displays were abuzz at this year's CES trade show, with OLED TVs shown that were less than an inch thick.
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The picture is grainy and the technology won't last, but TV programming is here to stay.
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(InfoWorld) - lTwo of the world's biggest flat-panel display makers, Sony and LG.Philips LCD Co., unveiled flexible full-color displays at a display industry show in California this week. Sony took the wraps off its prototype on Thursday and released an impressive video showing the display being bent to form a semi-circle while still displaying a moving video image. The 2.5-inch display has a resolution of 160 pixels by 120 pixels making it a little larger than the typical cell phone screen and a little lower resolution. The screen from LG.Philips LCD is larger at 4 inches in diagonal width and has a higher resolution of 320 pixels by 240 pixels. In contrast to Sony's video, LG.Philips LCD released only a photo that showed the display curved at a slight angle. Typically flat-panel displays are built onto thin sheets of glass but the Sony and LG.Philips screens are made on thin sheets of plastic and metal, respectively. That allows them to be bent but also introduces a range of other problems such as keeping everything aligned and working while the panel is flexed. Indeed the video of Sony's prototype showed several bad pixels and other problems. Neither company has said when it thinks the displays will be ready to go on sale but early customers might be attracted to them for reasons other than their flexibility, said Paul Semenza, an analyst with iSuppli, who attended the Society for Information Display conference where they were announced. "What tends to get forgotten is that these displays are also rugged and lightweight," he said. "Those are valuable properties." Sony sees OLED technology as important for its future products and is putting a lot of research and development resources behind screens like that unveiled this week. The screens are different from today's LCD (liquid crystal display) and PDP (plasma display panel) screens in that OLED pixels use an organic material that emits its own light, so no backlight is needed. That means the screens consume less power and can be made thinner. OLEDs also handle fast-moving images better and offer good color reproduction. At theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January the company showed off prototype televisions based on larger, non-flexible 11-inch and 27-inch OLED panels. Thanks to the lack of a backlight the 11-inch prototype was just 11 millimeters thick but displayed a vibrant, colorful image. Sony plans to have its first OLED TVs on sale in Japan this year. Last week in Tokyo Sony unveiled its latest OLED TV prototypes, which appeared to be close to commercialization. The sets had an integrated digital TV tuner and could also accept a high-definition input via an HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) connector. Â
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As recently as 1 B.C. (that's Before Cable), snow was the bane of our TV screens. Devices of all types were utilized -- from coat hangers to rooftop antennas -- to help us get a clear picture. Remember your dad saying, "That's it. Stand there and hold the rabbit ears. The picture's perfect." Of course, you had become part of ...
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Sony Corp.'s Creation Box makes images from any TV clearer, flicker-free and more vivid. Users can zoom in on high-definition video without distortion. But at &#36;4,800, it's not for everyone.
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Flat or fat? EDTV or HDTV? LCD or plasma? Anyone who&#39;s on the hunt for a new TV set these days knows getting a dream screen can be more confusing than the plotline of Days of Our Lives.
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TV makers at the Consumer Electronics Show boast their sets are thin, sharp and rich in content.
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Digital photo frames are reaching home appliances like cordless phones and refrigerators, as will be evident at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show.
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Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can't fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.
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Don't get too attached to your widescreen TV -- it'll soon be obsolete.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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This yearâs crop of flat panel TVs features rounded edges, clear plastic frames, and, in the case of LG and Samsung, dark red accents burned into the bezel.
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It's not just black. It's deep, penetrating black in the new Kuro concept TV. That means better contrast.
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Carbon nanotube technology could lead to flatter, cheaper TVs.
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By Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 10--On the gizmo glamour scale, the TV set-top box is a bit of a frump -- something the cable company dumps on the doorstep, not the quarry of a shopping spree at Best Buy.