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Sharp launches 70-inch LCD HDTV to consumers

Peter — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:08:52 +0000

Electronics manufacturer, Sharp, has released a 70-inch LCD high definition television to the market, making it the largest of it’s kind commercially available at this time.

The Sharp AQUOS Quattron LC–70LE732U not only boasts a super-sized screen, but also manages to pack in some of the latest in HDTV technology. One such new technology is an improved version of the innovative Quad-Pixel technology that includes the addition of a yellow colour palette to the standard RGB set; allowing for richer colours. This TV takes it one step further with Quad-Pixel Plus, a further enhanced iteration of the technology.

One other feature worth mentioning in particular is the introduction of WiFi – something that is rapidly becoming more and more of a requirement for high-end televisions these days.

Transparent OLED Displays

Charlotte — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:35:11 +0000

Organic LED displays have many desirable qualities for large screen televisions of the future including they would be easy to fabricate using printing technologies, flexible, have a wide viewing angle and do not require a back light. We have already seen the commercial production of OLED screens in MP3 players and on the Sony XEL-1 television.

Now two manufacturers have produced transparent OLED screens for an electronics fair in Japan. The LG OLED screen meausures 15″ while Samsung are demoing a 2″ screen. This is an exciting development which has many applications, including head-up displays and GPS for cars. I can also see that they would be great if combined with emergent reality, for example in sun glasses. The screens have a transmitance of around 30%.

Videos of the Samsung display in action can be found here.