Tuesday

Top 5 Plasma HDTV Displays of 2006

HDTV Guides Edition 8 - Top 5 Plasma HDTV of 2006


These are the Top 5 Plasma Displays according to HDTV Magazine:

5.0 (6 reviews) Panasonic TH-50PHD8UK 50" Plasma HDTV - $2,465.00
5.0 (5 reviews) Toshiba 50HP66 50" Plasma HDTV - $1,700.00

Top 10 HDTV Displays of 2006

HDTV Guides Edition 7 - Top 10 HDTV of 2006





HDTV Magazine have compiled this list of 10 TVs that are rated highest by users.

5.0 (9 reviews) Samsung HL-R5688W 56" HD-Ready DLP TV - $5,199.99
5.0 (8 reviews) Samsung LNS4096D 40" 1080p LCD HDTV - $2,499.99
5.0 (7 reviews) Samsung LN-R3228W 32" HD-Ready LCD TV - $1,359.00
5.0 (6 reviews) Panasonic TH-50PHD8UK 50" Plasma HDTV - $2,465.00
5.0 (5 reviews) Samsung LN-S4052D 40" Wide LCD HDTV with Integrated Tuner - $1,799.99

Tomorrow I will post the top 5 Plasma HDTVs according to HDTV Magazine

LCoS TV Display

HDTV Guides Edition 6 - LCoS HDTV Display





Today we briefly talk about the LCoS TV Display basics.

The LCoS architecture borrows from DLP TV displays, which uses microscopic mirrors to direct light. Similar to projection, direct view and LCD TVs, LCoS uses tiny liquid crystals to create the colored pixels that make up the TV’s onscreen display. In an LCoS system, the crystal layer sits on top of a reflective mirror substrate. Instead of shining a backlight directly through the LCD layer, light is bounced off the mirror behind the liquid crystal. When an electrical charge is applied to a cell filled with the liquid crystals, the crystal's state is modified to allow or block light – turning the pixel on or off.


Some advantages of LCoS technology:

A) . The matrix lines that separate individual pixels are thinner, eliminating the “screen door” effect of black lines appearing between pixels unlike the LCD TVs on the market today.

B). No moving parts – no pivoting micro-mirrors or spinning color wheels. The color wheels is the culprit behind the “rainbow effect” artifacts that bother some DLP viewers... not me though.


Monday

SED Display Guide

HDTV Guides Edition 5 - SED Display Guides





Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology Developed by Toshiba - co-developed with Canon.

They say that SED Displays have:

  • "same picture quality as a CRT"
  • "wall-mounted large-screen TV displays that are only several centimeters thick"
  • "energy consumption that is roughly one-half that of a large-screen CRT and about one-third that of a plasma display panel"
Some news broadcasts had stated that the SED Displays would be available at low cost but Toshiba is considering its SED display TVs as their high end HDTV line. They claim the SED displays will have the best resolution and contrast ratio and response time.

There are boasts of very high capability of displaying black with contrast ratio's from 8400:1 to 100,000:1

Like conventional CRTs, SEDs use the collision of electrons with a phosphor-coated screen to emit light. Electron emitters, which correspond to an electron gun in a CRT, are distributed in an amount equal to the number of pixels on the display.