Monitors - Projectors- Conferencing
Retailers, Makers Fined $6.6 Million for Digital TV
US federal regulators fined Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Sears, Frys and other retailers $3.9 million in all for not properly labeling analog-only TVs for the switch to digital TV next year. The FCC also gave $2.7 million in fines to other companies for violating other digital TV rules that involve shipping analog equipment and blocking technologies such as the V-chip. Retailers in USA must display or affix "consumer alert" labels to analog-only TV equipment (TVs, DVDs, videocassette Continue reading...
LaserVue, Laser TV by Mitsubishi
While other makers are downplaying LaserTV as a future standard, Mitsubishi gives its laser-based DLP HDTV a brand name: LaserVue. The company says LaserVue will be "in stores and for sale during Q3" at least in USA.Today’s HDTVs display less than 40% of the color spectrum that the eye can see. Laser, says Mitsubishi, produces as much as twice the color.
Go LaserVue
NEW 24” WIDECREEN LCD
V7 introduces their first 24 inch widescreen LCD monitor. The D24W33 has good specs (especially for a 399 Euro model): a brightness of 250 cd/m² , a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, and a contrast of 1,000:1.
But it’s not all about specs, is it? Demand for large displays in widescreen format has increased because of the new Windows Vista OS. This widescreen monitor comes with show-boating pivot function that graphic artists, CAD specialists and others need several applications shown Continue reading...
Flatland, Battleground for Displays
It’s no secret that flat panels have made a lot of money for retailers, VARs and distributors in the past few years, certainly far more than high-def DVD. Yet, the news about the skirmishes in the DVD wars got far more attention than the equally decisive battles in display technology at the moment.
Growing video usage, VISTA, and aggressive pricing are skyrocketing sales of wide-format LCD desktop computer monitors over the next five years, making this the dominant format by 2009, iSuppli Corp. Continue reading...
Panasonic’s Plasma Plan: Neo PDP
Panasonic showed for the first time in Europe, the prototype of the world’s largest Flat Panel Display, 150-inch advanced high definition (HD) PDP.
Maybe even larger than the world’s largest flat panel display was the promise, the commitment Panasonic showed plasma by announcing a plan for a next generation: Neo PDP.
“Neo PDP” will combines advances for plasma in cell structure, process technology, and new drive technology. Neo PDP will save power, double Continue reading...
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