Displays

19 July 2006 - We've been waiting on this one for a good long while, but we're pleased to say that if your chosen flavor of TV happens to be a 1080p, LED-based DLP set with 56-inches of screen real estate and a hard to remember model number, Samsung has just the display for you. Their HL-S5679W packs in a 4000:1 contrast ratio, HDMI input, analog/digital tuner, and of course that 20,000 hour lifespan, speedy startup and heat and energy savings provided by the LED backlit pixels. It's shipping now with a MSRP of $4,199, but the word is you can nab one for around $4,000 on a certain proverbial street.

14 July 2006 - Prices for 42-inch panels may fall to US$700 before the fourth quarter of 2006, despite being priced at US$800 in the second quarter, already below the cash-cost of 42-inch panels from LG.Philips LCD, the company said at its investors conference in the second quarter.

11 May 2006 - Dell has a new revision of its 3007WFP, called A01. Comparing both the A00 and A01 units can confirm that the new A01 unit significantly improves backlight uniformity. The severe hotspots that were noticeable on A00 units are now gone with the A01 unit.

7 May 2006 - Samsung has recently entered the HL-S5679W 56-inch DLP TV in its product line which features an LED-based rear-projection light engine as opposed to expensive light bulb based models of previous generations. Samsung announced the company's first LED DLP during CES 2006 back in January of this year.

7 May 2006 - DVI-I, DVI-D, UDI, HDMI -- a confusing group of abbreviation for many. Interestingly, all of them do similar things and the two later ones attempt to address the same issues including backwards compatibility while being different themselves. As far as standards go, computer and digital displays have pretty much been using one big standard, DVI. However, industry supporters say that connectivity is too confusing, and in fact, will now launch a newer standard, called DisplayPort. DisplayPort, designed by the VESA group, attempts to do one thing: unify digital display connection interfaces. Like UDI and HDMI, DisplayPort will be backwards compatible with DVI. The specification claims however, that DisplayPort offers greater bandwidth for HD video while at the same time offering a connection interface that's simple and easy to use.

16 April 2006 - Samsung has just applied for a patent on a virtual screen technology, according to Unwiredview.com, for mobile phones which is an innovative version a PDA screen. The Virtual Display technology is a combination of multiple components which work together to take written text and transform it into an electronic form of text.

28 March 2006 - DailyTech's sources at Samsung LCD whispered to them a few weeks ago that Dell will feature a 27" LCD this fall with a 1920x1200 resolution.

24 March 2006 - Corning, Inc., announced recently that they will be launching their EAGLE XG LCD glass which is manufactured without the heavy metals used in previous LCD glass products. The new glass will rid the production process of harmful waste and also to cut manufacturing costs and, in turn, reduce prices.

14 July 2006 - If you like to watch high definition video-- and we mean really, really like to watch it-- then Pioneer has a new 50-inch plasma on the market that promises unrivaled picture quality and realism -- for a pretty steep price. We first heard of the Elite PureVision PRO-FHD1 back at CES in January, where we instantly knew from the specs that this was a pretty special model: it delivers full 1080p resolution using over two million pixels that are just .576 millimeters across, features a 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 1,000cd/m2 peak brightness, and sports two HDMI, one DVI, and one component input. For Interested readers, they might want to take a look at the press release here.

14 July 2006 - China-based TV vendors recently cut prices for LCD TVs by 13-28%, according to the Chinese-language website Sina.com. Hisense is offering one of its 42-inch LCD TVs for 13,000 yuan (US$1,625), down from 14,900 yuan, while Skyworth is reducing its 46-inch LCD TV by 18% to 17,000 yuan. The price of 32-inch LCD TVs from Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronics (Xoceco) and TCL is now 5,000 yuan, down 28.5% from 6,999 yuan, the report said.

9 May 2006 - Digital-Tigers test hundreds of different components and offer only the industry's top-of-the-line, professional-grade LCD and computer graphics technology. They integrate it all with their exclusive Zenview Manager software that fully extends Microsoft Windows for multiple monitors. Take look at some of their top notch stuff here.

7 May 2006 - Webcams have been around for a few years and commonly used for taking personal mug shots, video conferencing, etc... The recent trend with webcams has been to integrate them into newer laptops such as Apple’s MacBook Pro. Desktops such as Apple’s iMac come equipped with an integrated web cam as well. There hasn’t been any means for a user who wants to build their own system or purchase an off the shelf system to have their own webcam integrated into the monitor. ASUS has realized this and released the new PW201 LCD monitor. The PW201 is a 20.1” widescreen LCD display with a 16:10 aspect ratio capable of a 1680x1050 resolution. What sets the PW201 apart from other 20.1” LCD monitors is the integration of a mega-pixel webcam towards the top edge of the bezel, eliminating clunky stand alone USB webcams. Aside from the convenience of an integrated webcam the PW201 has pretty standard specs including an 800:1 contrast ratio and brightness levels of 300 nits.

4 May 2006 - LG Electronics, a leader in LCD TVs and monitors, announced a line of flat-panel LCD TVs with built-in DVR functionality, upgraded hard drive capacities and more. LG Electronics' previous line of high definition LCD TVs also featured a hard disk drive based DVR system with a capacity of 160GB. This year's models will feature an upgraded 250GB hard drive for up to 13 hours of high definition recording.

2 April 2006 - Many users have been waiting to see OLED technology come into the mainstream for computer displays. Sure, OLED screens are available on some cell phones and MP3 players (and even the C6 Corvette's gauge cluster), but those are relatively small displays compared to what would be seen on a typical laptop, desktop or TV display.

24 March 2006 - $1499 CAD for the $2300 USD 30" display. How much cheaper can it get? A quick conversion shows that $1499 CAD is approximately $1290 USD!

23 March 2006 - Further comfirmation that prices of LCD TVs and monitors will fall over the next few months has come from a Merrill Lynch analyst. Speaking to the Taipei Times, the analyst said overcapacity of LCD panels used in monitors and TVs is the problem. It's not demand that's the problem, it's oversupply, Daniel Kim told the newspaper. It's the two LCD giants, Samsung and LG Philips, which are largely responsible for the overcapacity problem. And prices are expected to be weak for several months ahead, he warned.