Pioneer to show ultra-black plasma TV
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Pioneer Corp., which is sticking to making plasma flat-panel TVs as other manufacturers are switching to LCD TVs, announced Sunday it will be demonstrating a prototype set that emits no light in black areas of the picture, improving contrast and image quality.
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Paper thin CES on Video Up close with Samsung's size-zero 52in LCD TV prototype...â¦
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Plasma panels are losing flat-screen battle to LCDs, research shows. If history has a say, more price cuts are on the way.
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SED TVs, coming next year, will offer bright, CRT-like pictures in a thin package.
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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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Pioneer has sued Samsung in the United States over alleged patent infringement involving plasma displays used primarily in television sets. The two companies were in licensing talks that apparently fell through, prompting Pioneer to file a lawsuit.
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Ahead: Larger HDTV sets, better color, more playback and recording choices.
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We may be watching very colorful TVs thanks to a new stretchable material that bends light, producing every color visible to the human eye. By SeÃ¡n Captain.
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Japanese electronics conglomerate  Matsushita Electric Industrial Co introduced on Monday a  150-inch plasma television, which it says is the world's  biggest.
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Sony Corp has denied plans to exit the plasma television business. The company plans to focus on the flat-panel TV market on liquid crystal display and rear-projection models, and analysts say that this would be a logical move.
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Straight from CES, we have laser TVs, concept TVs, and gaming LCD TVs, as well as an onslaught of new plasma and LCD TVs ready to invade your living room. Take a look.
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Take a look at Panasonic's 150-inch plasma TV, which has been the talk of the show at CES 2008.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.  (6752.T), the maker of Panasonic brand electronics, said on  Monday it hoped to start selling the world&#039;s largest plasma  television by early next year.
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Texas Instruments is prepping a new single-chip solution designed to bring live broadcast television to mobile phones and other portable devices.
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The first converter boxes to help consumers cope when over-the-air TV signals switch from analog to digital broadcasting will debut next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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Over this year, one of the biggest obstacles to buying a high-definition TV crumbled into dust. Even if you're looking for a big, flat-panel plasma or a liquid-crystal display screen, you no longer have to spend more than the cost of a good laptop computer.
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Device can improve the image quality of standard and high-definition images.