Chi Mei's announces film-definition LCD TV
It's been a while since I wrote anything about high-definition flat panel TVs, but with CeBIT coming up next month, that is about to change. And a large Taiwan flat panel manufacturer is firing the first volley in that month-long battle for attention.
According to Gizmag, Chi Mei, the third largest producer of LCD's in the world, will show a 56-inch LCD TV, displaying 3840 x 2160 pixels at next month's CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There's no word about whether it will display in progressive or interlaced form at that resolution, but if it is progressive, that would make it a film definition TV by our terminology. That's only slightly less than the new digital projectors being put into movie theaters, such as Sony's digital film projector at that displays 4096 x 2160 pixels. But Chi Mei's product definite has serious bragging rights, since it is a direct view device, incorporating more than 28 million transistors and displaying more than 8 million pixels.
It would make an awesome display for my PowerMac -- if only there were a video card that would drive it. Perhaps this will provide some incentive for the plasma manufacturers to up the resolution of their direct-view home displays.
According to Gizmag, Chi Mei, the third largest producer of LCD's in the world, will show a 56-inch LCD TV, displaying 3840 x 2160 pixels at next month's CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There's no word about whether it will display in progressive or interlaced form at that resolution, but if it is progressive, that would make it a film definition TV by our terminology. That's only slightly less than the new digital projectors being put into movie theaters, such as Sony's digital film projector at that displays 4096 x 2160 pixels. But Chi Mei's product definite has serious bragging rights, since it is a direct view device, incorporating more than 28 million transistors and displaying more than 8 million pixels.
It would make an awesome display for my PowerMac -- if only there were a video card that would drive it. Perhaps this will provide some incentive for the plasma manufacturers to up the resolution of their direct-view home displays.
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