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  • Video: Sharp’s 30-screen display system boasts world’s thinnest frame width

    Video: Sharp’s 30-screen display system boasts world’s thinnest frame width

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Sharp today in Japan presented the PN-V601 [press release in English], a multi.screen display system, which - at 6.5mm - features the world's thinnest bezel separation. In other words, Sharp managed to design the display, which consists of up to thirty 60-inch LCDs, so that it (almost) looks like one gigantic, "individual" screen.

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  • HP stuffs 1 billion colors in the ZR30w 30-inch display

    HP stuffs 1 billion colors in the ZR30w 30-inch display

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    The new HP ZR30w can display all the colors of the rainbow, if the rainbow in question has 1.07 billion colors that is. That's about 64 times more than Apple's more expensive 30-inch Cinema HD Display. That's just a little tid-bit for those that like to keep track of these things.

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  • Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    OLEDs, which are said to lead the next wave of innovation in the TV space (after back-lit LCDs and 3D displays), come with plenty of advantages: they produce gorgeous images, they are self-luminous, light, and they're flexible - very flexible. Case in point: a super-thin, Sony-made 4.1-inch OLED that actually wraps around a pencil, shown today in Japan.

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  • Panasonic’s new VIERAs boast built-in Skype support, HDDs and Blu-ray recorders

    Panasonic’s new VIERAs boast built-in Skype support, HDDs and Blu-ray recorders

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Panasonic announced [JP] a set of two new VIERA TVs for the Japanese market today, the 37-inch TH-L37R2B and the 32-inch TH-L32R2B. And they somehow managed to squeeze quite a few features and functions into the LCDs, most notably Skype support, a 320 GB HDD and a Blu-ray recorder.

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  • Sharp announces another batch of AQUOS TVs with built-in Blu-ray recorders

    Sharp announces another batch of AQUOS TVs with built-in Blu-ray recorders

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    In Japan, Sharp has been offering AQUOS LCDs with integrated Blu-ray players or recorders for quite some time now. And today, the company announced [JP] the AQUOS DX3 series, which consists of another five of those TVs (with built-in Blu-ray recorders) for the Japanese market.

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  • REGZA 3D: Toshiba is now ready to sell 3D TVs, too

    REGZA 3D: Toshiba is now ready to sell 3D TVs, too

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Toshiba organized a big press conference in Tokyo today, and the company did not only unveil a total of 15 new REGZA LCDs for the Japanese market. Perhaps more importantly, Toshiba also announced the development of a new 3D TV. It seems Toshiba can't afford to let Sony, Panasonic, NEC, Sharp and Hitachi be the only Japanese tech companies try to create a new business for themselves.

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  • Daily Crunch: PSA Edition

    Daily Crunch: PSA Edition

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    DIY: Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a Ukulele Party people, wave your wristbands in the air DIY freestanding “Pogo” bookcase, AKA compression shelving Breakthrough? New spreadable electrode may pave way for cheaper LCDs If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

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  • NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've ever got upset about not being able to view what your cell phone screen displays while you are outside your house, NEC's new color-compensation chip is probably good news for you. The chip, which is specifically made for LCDs for mobile phones, helps to make them easier to view in bright outdoor settings.

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  • New NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    New NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've ever got upset about not being able to view what your cell phone screen displays while you are outside your house, NEC's new color-compensation chip is probably good news for you. The chip, which is specifically made for LCDs for mobile phones, helps to make them easier to view in bright outdoor settings.

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  • Daily Crunch: Tub Planet Edition

    Daily Crunch: Tub Planet Edition

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    A bathtub with portholes, so you can look out – or in Someone, please, find out where I can buy these Star Wars posters From 1978: Unbelievable Japanese “Star Wars” TV spot for “sea chicken”

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  • Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    We have seen curved plasmas, OLED TVs and LCDs in the past, both as prototypes and actual products. And while many people believe OLED screens and not LCDs or plasmas are the future, a Japanese consortium of 13 companies and institutions is working hard on developing super-thin, flexible LCDs. The companies claim they now have found a way to produce these LCDs by using plastic film instead of glass substrates.

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  • More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    LED-backlit panels are becoming more and more mainstream, with nearly every 16:9 laptop coming out lately boasting that feature. Apple said as early as 2008 they would start using LED backlights for every one of their notebooks (and the iPad has those, too). LED-backlit LCD TVs are catching on, too, providing greater dynamic contrast compared with CCFL-backlit LCDs and making it possible to design slimmer bodies. Today, Sharp in Japan announced [JP] another four models (LC-52SE1/pictured, LC-46SE1, LC-40SE1 and LC-32SC1) from their LED AQUOS series, and all have (white) LED backlights.

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  • Boogie Board writing tablet costs $30, features ‘no power LCD technology’

    Boogie Board writing tablet costs $30, features ‘no power LCD technology’

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Going completely paperless just got a bit easier with an LCD tablet that – wait for it – actually seems to be an affordable and useful way to replace paper pads. The Boogie Board from Improv Electronics features  technology from Ohio’s Kent Displays called “Reflex LCD,” a pressure-sensitive, flexible plastic that requires zero power to retain what’s written on it and only a small watch battery to erase the screen.

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  • Motion blur is a big fat lie

    Motion blur is a big fat lie

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Ever since Area 51 and the grassy knoll, we've all known the government was hiding something. What, exactly? Was it that Spain is really France? That hemp makes great rope? No. It's that motion blur in LCDs isn't that big a deal. And it's time to blow this cover-up wide open. Dr. Raymond Soneira at DisplayMate has blown the lid off this whole thing by writing a detail and somniferant look at LCD motion blur. His conclusions will surprise you: it doesn't exist and all that talk of megahertz and poodlefurtz was all smoke and mirrors. We are down the rabbit hole, people.

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  • Come on, everyone, of course Nintendo is working on the Wii HD

    Come on, everyone, of course Nintendo is working on the Wii HD

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Nintendo's generally vocal president, Reggie Fils-Aime, made headlines today when again he denied that Nintendo was working on the Wii HD. He said, "I don't know how forcefully we can say there is no Wii HD." That's pretty clear, but it's also mostly a lie. What do you expect the man to say two months before Christmas? "Psst, don't buy the $200 Wii for your kid this year. We've got something real special coming in a few months. You're going to want that instead." Does anyone seriously think that Nintendo is not building a high-def capable system? You can't even buy a SD TV larger than 20 inches anymore. Reggie probably told the truth when he said "there is no Wii HD" as it's probably not named Wii HD, but there has to be some sort of high-def gaming system in the works. If there isn't, Nintendo is in trouble.

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