Betting on a Bright Future for Rear-Projection TVs
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Texas Instruments hopes that new chips can lead to more realistic video game play and 3-D DVDs.
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Move defies predictions that steep price falls in flat-screen TVs would make it tough to roll out the new technology.
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New technologies like OLED make possible thinner, lighter displays that use less energy.
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By Chris Flores, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 16--Consumers buying flat-panel high-definition televisions are facing a curious little feature that they aren't quite sure about.
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The mobile phone industry has been  predicting for years that the future of television is wireless.
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New lens technology creates a versatile sub-$5000 projector good for home theater or business.
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Colour television (CTV) makers expect Indian consumers to switch over to top-end plasma projection and liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions at a rapid rate.
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With over-the-air television broadcasts switching from analog to digital in just over a year, converter boxes are expected to be among the hot devices on display at next week's CES.
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New display technologies are emerging for laptops and other mobile devices that are thinner, lighter and use less energy than LCDs.
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(InfoWorld) - Even if you bought a TV in the last several months you may already feel like it's out of date. Your shiny new flat-screen arrives, you hook it up to the antenna and the first thing you see is a commercial for a bigger, better model. It might even have a cheaper price. It's the way things seem to work these days in the world of TVs. Things aren't likely to change any time soon. The latest buzz is around "100Hz" or "120Hz" technology, which relates to how often the image on the screen is refreshed or redrawn. The technology is already appearing in TVs, and if you haven't seen promotional stickers for it yet you probably will soon. Most TV sets today refresh the picture either 50 times per second (50Hz) or 60 times per second (60Hz) depending where in the world you live (different regions use different color formatting.) That rate is fine for most images, but when it comes to fast moving shows like sports events the images can appear blurry on an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. Doubling the rate at which images are displayed, to 100 or 120 frames per second, makes for a better, more high-definition picture. The need to improve LCD TVs has been especially acute because their chief competitor, PDP (plasma display panel) TVs, don't have the same blurring problem. Compounding the issue is that screen sizes are getting bigger, so any imperfections are more noticeable, said Mina Naito, a spokeswoman for Sony. PDP makers have trumpeted their advantage for some time, but things may be about to change. Compared to previous LCD panels, the new 100Hz and 120Hz models are "a big improvement," said Hisakazu Torii, a TV industry analyst with DisplaySearch in Tokyo. Prototype panels with the faster refresh rate began appearing last year. At the FPD International 2006 show in Yokohama in October, Samsung ElectronicsÂ demonstrated images and text scrolling across just such a panel, and they appeared to move more smoothly than on existing LCD TVs. Then at theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January, Sony announced a 120Hz model with the Samsung screen for the U.S. market. The 70-inch LCD TV is launched this month and carries the hefty price of $33,000. Samsung plans a 70-inch set, also based on the Samsung panel, which will go on sale in the first half of this year. Competitors including Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) are also promoting 120Hz sets in Japan. The latest company to join the party isÂ Sharp, which last week said it would put five sets in its Aquos range on sale in Japan from March. The price runs from Â¥500,000 for a 42-inch model to Â¥1 million for a 65-inch model.
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Can the latest high-powered consoles offer more than videogames? You bet.
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LCD TVs are well on their way to becoming the most popular television technology, and HDTV heads into the mainstream.
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Plasma television technology has a  bright future despite an onslaught on its home turf from rival  LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, makers of plasma screens told  Reuters at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.
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Bill Gates predicts a future for the entertainment industry in which traditional broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive vision, however, because new and better business models made possible by technology are emerging.
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An entirely new generation of digital TVs is being produced now, but manufacturers are using ingenuity and wherewithal to try to distinguish their products from each other's in unique ways.
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From big-screen TVs to big-time DVD players, here's what we'd like to receive this year.
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In less than two years, plasma TVs have gone from dominant format to afterthought, then back to a viable option.