From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Sharp Releases Full HD AQUOS LCD TVs from Kameyama

August 31, 2006

On August 31, Sharp announced Full HD AQUOS LCD TVs with panels made from its G8 Kameyama Plant No. 2. The worldwide launch of these models will be on October 1, 2006. Sharp’s Kameyama Plant No. 2 is the world’s first G8 TFT LCD fab that works with glass substrates with dimensions 2160 x 2460 [...]

One Laptop Per Child 2B1, not CM1

August 30, 2006

The One Laptop per Child Organization’s ~$100 notebook PC has another name: 2B1, a change from its other official name: Children’s Machine 1, or CM1. The 2B1 can create its own mesh network enabling connection between two computers without needing an Internet connection. Sharing an Internet connection is easy as long as one 2B1 has [...]

Philips’ Entertaible

August 29, 2006

Board games will never be the same again. In good ways and bad. Philips revealed a 32″ horizontal, multi-touch LCD gaming platform that is fully integrated in a 10cm height enclosure called Entertaible at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA). What an interesting name for a conference… Funk Auss Tell… Those Germans.

I think the folks in the [...]

Dai Nippon Printing to Build Color Filter Line for Sharp

August 28, 2006

DNP will invest 24-25 billion yen to build a color filter (CF) production line for Sharp. The CF plant will be located inside Sharp’s factory in the Mie Prefecture. DNP was established in 1876 as Japan’s first full-scale printing company and has grown to be the largest-scale all-inclusive printing company in the world.

In a related [...]

Humax LP32-TDR1: 32″ LCD TV with PVR

August 28, 2006

Humax, short for Human Maximum? Who knows. But it’s a name that I am not very familiar with. Maybe that will change in the near future. And its LP32-TDR1 will sure help bring that about. The LP32-TDR1 is a 32″ LCD TV with a 160GB Personal Video Recorder (PVR). Not much is known but it [...]

Automotive LED-based Displays

August 28, 2006

Currently, most if not all automotive displays use the typical CCFL as the light source. This will change, like most displays will, to having LED backlights. Taiwan’s Ligitek Electronics will start shipping LED backlights for 7″ and 9″ LCDs for use in autos in October. But don’t hold your breath. Usually, a component such as [...]

Epson EMP-1715: USB Front Projector

August 28, 2006

Epson EMP-1715 LCD Projector
Pixel Format: 1024 x 768
Display Engine: HTPS LCD
Brightness: 2700 ANSI Lumens
Color: 8-bit, 16.7 million
Dimension: 10.8 x 7.6 x 2.7″
Weight: 3.8lbs
The EMP-1715 wireless multimedia projector is the world’s first USB Plug-and-Play projector weighing 1.7kg with a height of 68mm and a footprint of 273mm x 193mm. Brightness is at 2700 ANSI lumens, which [...]

Samsung 1.98″ VGA LCD

August 25, 2006

Samsung’s 1.98″ 640 x 480 LCD uses a-Si glass and the company’s Amorphous Silicon Gate (ASG) technology. The extremely high-resolution 400dpi LCD can display 16 million colors, which is quite substantial for such a small size. Other specification includes a 300:1 contrast ratio, and 75-degree viewing angles.

Samsung’s ASG technology allows gate driver ICs to be [...]

HP LP2465

August 25, 2006

HP’s LP2465 is a 24″ wide LCD monitor with 1920 x 1200 resolution: 16:10 aspect ratio, 13ms pixel response time, 6ms Gray-To-Gray (GTG) response time, 178-degree viewing angle, 1000:1 contrast ratio and 500 cd/m2. The cheapest price for the LP2465 is around $750 w/o shipping and handling. But that seems way too expensive considering a [...]

Samsung SyncMaster 931C: 97% NTSC Color Gamut

August 25, 2006

Most LCD monitors use regular CCFLs that hasn’t seen performance increases in decades. Because of that, they are kept to a 72% NTSC color gamut. 72% seems to have been enough for most people because until recently nobody cared. So what happened recently? LED. LED folks began to package those little solid-state light sources into [...]


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