Future Display Technologies
Just recently I have heard about some new technologies in the display field.
Thus far, the CRT has been regarded as the best display technology for personal computers. This has been because of color reproduction, contrast ratio, and brightness. People are now seeing the drawback of that 80lb beast many have sitting on their desks. However, the change to LCD's and other flat panel displays have brought the quality of the display down. CRT's are still used when high definition photo/video editing is needed.
These future technologies (if they ever come to fruition) may pose a real end to CRT's.
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New LCD
One new technology created by a company called eCinema has announced a new LCD technology that claims to outperform CRT's. (of course in every field, except cost). This new LCD claims to have 1000 to 4000 step gray-scales (as opposed to current LCD's roughly 256 step gray-scales). This new LCD is made to prevent that "always lit" backlight problems with creating dark blacks in current LCD's.
This new LCD also claims to have a 30,000:1 contrast ratio, matching the CR of top-of-the-line CRT's, beating most normal CRT's (4,000:1 - 10,000:1), beating the best plasma TV's (10,000:1), beating the best DLP projectors (4000:1), and demolishing current LCD's (1,000:1).
eCinema's technology also claims to support up to 48bit color support (currently at 36bit). This is on par with current CRT's but still beaten by plasma screens.
Also, the frame rates are true to the video (HD or SD). Current LCD's are at roughly 60 frames per second, whereas this new LCD will display 29.976fps as 29.976, a true 1080p display. And, a 15ms black to white to black response time (where as current LCD's cheat by measuring gray to gray).
This display is geared toward the high end video and photo editing groups, and is expected to go on the market in Q4 of this year. Just don't expect it to be in any reasonable price range.
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OLED
OLED's have been talked about for a little while not, so if you don't know much about them check out the Wikipedia page.
Basically OLED stands for "Organic Light-emanating Diode". The main benefit of OLED displays are the fact that they don't need a backlight to operate. Thus a much better battery life for notebook computers. Also, they are much cheaper to make than LCD's due to the "ink-jet printer" property (meaning that they can be printed on a substrate via the same technology that ink-jet's use.)
OLED's also have insanely fast response times (reported at roughly 1000 times faster than LCD's). Though its other aspects aren't breaking CRT's back, with a 5000:1 contrast ratio, and 500cd/m2 brightness.
Some other problems with OLED's hint at the organic part of the construction. Apparently if water comes in contact with the organic part of the unit then 'bye bye monitor'. (but then again when has water and electronics ever been good). Also, the life span of the displays may also be extremely short (some even say as short as a year or 1000 hour life).
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SED
SED displays caught my eye near the end of last year. The technology behind the display puts 3 electron emitters in each pixel (red, green, blue). This, in effect, is a CRT in each pixel.
So, SED equates to a thin, flat panel monitor that beats any CRT. The aspects are: a currently 10,000:1 contrast ratio (with a prototype reaching 100,000:1), a less than 1ms black to black response time, 180 degree viewing angle, and consumes less power than an LCD.
And if you want to read a whole lot more about SED's then go here.
SED's are supposed to be on the market at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008.
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Do I hear winner? I think so. As long as it fits into my budget that is.
P.S. if you happened to get through all that babble then you probably also have one of the same pet peeves I do: When a new display technology comes out they put a picture of the display with it's so-called High Defination display, and everyone marvels at it saying how good the display looks, when they are actually looking at their own monitor's representation of the display.
Thus far, the CRT has been regarded as the best display technology for personal computers. This has been because of color reproduction, contrast ratio, and brightness. People are now seeing the drawback of that 80lb beast many have sitting on their desks. However, the change to LCD's and other flat panel displays have brought the quality of the display down. CRT's are still used when high definition photo/video editing is needed.
These future technologies (if they ever come to fruition) may pose a real end to CRT's.
--------------------
New LCD
One new technology created by a company called eCinema has announced a new LCD technology that claims to outperform CRT's. (of course in every field, except cost). This new LCD claims to have 1000 to 4000 step gray-scales (as opposed to current LCD's roughly 256 step gray-scales). This new LCD is made to prevent that "always lit" backlight problems with creating dark blacks in current LCD's.
This new LCD also claims to have a 30,000:1 contrast ratio, matching the CR of top-of-the-line CRT's, beating most normal CRT's (4,000:1 - 10,000:1), beating the best plasma TV's (10,000:1), beating the best DLP projectors (4000:1), and demolishing current LCD's (1,000:1).
eCinema's technology also claims to support up to 48bit color support (currently at 36bit). This is on par with current CRT's but still beaten by plasma screens.
Also, the frame rates are true to the video (HD or SD). Current LCD's are at roughly 60 frames per second, whereas this new LCD will display 29.976fps as 29.976, a true 1080p display. And, a 15ms black to white to black response time (where as current LCD's cheat by measuring gray to gray).
This display is geared toward the high end video and photo editing groups, and is expected to go on the market in Q4 of this year. Just don't expect it to be in any reasonable price range.
--------------------
OLED
OLED's have been talked about for a little while not, so if you don't know much about them check out the Wikipedia page.
Basically OLED stands for "Organic Light-emanating Diode". The main benefit of OLED displays are the fact that they don't need a backlight to operate. Thus a much better battery life for notebook computers. Also, they are much cheaper to make than LCD's due to the "ink-jet printer" property (meaning that they can be printed on a substrate via the same technology that ink-jet's use.)
OLED's also have insanely fast response times (reported at roughly 1000 times faster than LCD's). Though its other aspects aren't breaking CRT's back, with a 5000:1 contrast ratio, and 500cd/m2 brightness.
Some other problems with OLED's hint at the organic part of the construction. Apparently if water comes in contact with the organic part of the unit then 'bye bye monitor'. (but then again when has water and electronics ever been good). Also, the life span of the displays may also be extremely short (some even say as short as a year or 1000 hour life).
--------------------
SED
SED displays caught my eye near the end of last year. The technology behind the display puts 3 electron emitters in each pixel (red, green, blue). This, in effect, is a CRT in each pixel.
So, SED equates to a thin, flat panel monitor that beats any CRT. The aspects are: a currently 10,000:1 contrast ratio (with a prototype reaching 100,000:1), a less than 1ms black to black response time, 180 degree viewing angle, and consumes less power than an LCD.
And if you want to read a whole lot more about SED's then go here.
SED's are supposed to be on the market at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008.
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Do I hear winner? I think so. As long as it fits into my budget that is.
P.S. if you happened to get through all that babble then you probably also have one of the same pet peeves I do: When a new display technology comes out they put a picture of the display with it's so-called High Defination display, and everyone marvels at it saying how good the display looks, when they are actually looking at their own monitor's representation of the display.
posted by Brandon Roberts at Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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