Sony debuts flexible TV screen
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The company claims to have developed a new technology that uses plastic instead of glass. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Personal TV Channel system is making its debut at IFA consumer electronics show.
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More efficient video compression; receiver add-on for TV.
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Joint Sony-Samsung factory in South Korea uses the latest production technology to make less-expensive LCD TV panels.
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TOKYO - Sony is focusing its TV business strategy on liquid-crystal displays and rear-projection television sets, but will continue to assemble and sell plasma display sets for now, the company said Monday.
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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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(CP) - SONY has introduced it&#39;s Clie PEG-VZ90, an entertainment multimedia handheld using Palm OS 5.2.1. The unit boasts the world&#39;s largest 480x320 pixels organic electroluminescent (EL) display, which many regard as a next-generation technology capable
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Sony debuted its first combination HDTV/PC including Blu-ray technology on Monday, although the price tag still remains rather high.
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Electronics conglomerate Sony Corp.  unveiled eight new flat-screen televisions on Thursday in a  product push it hopes will help it secure a leading 35 percent  of the domestic market in the key month of December.
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Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said on Wednesday.
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Device features an OLED display, which the company says is better than an LCD.
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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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A dense thin film of carbon nanotubes is transparent, electrically conductive and flexible -- key properties for making flexible displays.
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LG.Philips LCD is planning to unveil a 52-inch multi-touch LCD (liquid crystal display) at next week&#39;s Consumer Electronics Show, it said Monday. The screen is 5-inches larger than one it&#160;recently showed in Japan&#160;and is the largest display of its type in the world, the company said.Multi-touch screens differ from conventional touchpanels because they allow input from more than one spot on the screen so, for example, an image can be manipulated from opposite corners. Probably the most famous current example of the technology is the display on Apple&#39;s hit iPhone and iPod Touch devices.With the technology helping to make the iPhone a smash hit display makers are now pursuing its inclusion in screens. The LG.Philips 52-inch screen uses an infrared image sensor to gauge input from fingers or other instruments and can recognize gestures such as the movement of fingers. It boasts full HD resolution (1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels).Additionally, the company will be showing an 84-inch multi-touch display that is made up of four 42-inch panels joined together.LG.Philips LCD will also unveil a 47-inch &quot;triple-view&quot; screen. This has a filter over the front that sends light from pixels in one of three different directions so that three images can be displayed at once: one to viewers on the right of the screen, one to people in front of it and one to those on the left. The feature is being positioned at public display applications for use in advertising.Also at CES the company will show a 47-inch double-sided screen that is made up of a single backlight sandwiched between two LCD panels and a 42-inch transreflective panel for outdoor advertising use.International CES opens in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.&#160;
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A new generation of OLED displays, which are thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs, is working its way to market. But it could be years before they're cheap enough to displace LCD screens.
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South Korean display screen maker Samsung  SDI Co  said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch  ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an  accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
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In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all &#151; a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.