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NEC reveals new 24-inch LCDs for U.S. market

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Jun 8th 2009 No Comments

NEC has made two new LCD displays available in the U.S. today to match the recent release of similar models in Japan. The LCD2490WUXi2 and the LCD2490W2 both sport 24-inch screens and feature IPS panels.

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JVC GD-32XI super-slim 1080p display hits Japan in August

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 8th 2009 No Comments

jvc gd 32x1 1 210x480 JVC have announced that their GD-32XI – the world’s slimmest 32-inch LCD display – will go on sale in Japan come August. The screen, announced back at CES in January, measures 6.4mm at its thinnest point, and is capable of displaying 1080p Full HD video.

The GD-32XI has a contrast ratio of 4,000:1 and brightness rating of 400cd/m2. It reportedly manages 100-percent coverage of sRGB colors and 90-percent of Adobe RGB, while cutting the number of necessary parts down by around 50-percent. JVC’s GENNESA image processing tech is also onboard, to reduce motion noise, improve color accuracy and boost still images.

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Pixel Qi 3Qi vs Amazon Kindle; Mary Lou Jepson Q&A [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 8th 2009 No Comments

Pixel Qi’s recent demonstrations of their clever 3Qi LCD display have prompted multiple questions from would-be users keen to stretch more battery life out of their notebooks and netbooks, and the company’s CTO (and 3Qi creator) Mary Lou Jepsen has stepped up to answer them. Among the most anticipated questions, Jepsen addresses price: according to her, the rumored $200 tag is not for the display itself but an estimated cost for an entire netbook using the indoor/outdoor 3Qi screen.

Video Q&A and 3Qi vs Kindle demo after the cut

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NEC CRV43 43-inch curved LCD arrives July for $8k

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 4th 2009 No Comments

NEC’s huge CRV43 LCD display – which offers a gently curving 43-inch 2,880 x 900 resolution panel – has finally got a release date and price, though don’t expect much change from $8k. Intended for graphic designers and command/control users, the CRV43 runs at double-WGXA resolution and connects with a single DVI-D or HDMI 1.3 connector.

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Sharp Memory LCD slashes power draw with persistent-pixels

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 3rd 2009 No Comments

Sharp have been wowing with their display technology at the SID conference; their five-color LCD stands to revolutionize accuracy-dependent industries like graphic design, and now they’re hoping to do similar things with mobile displays. The Sharp Memory LCD is intended to drastically cut power requirements of a traditional LCD display by reducing the energy each individual pixel requires to remain in its current state.

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Pixel Qi 3Qi prototype gets video demo

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 2nd 2009 No Comments

It may look like a slightly washed-out standard netbook screen, but this is actually one of Pixel Qi’s amazing 3Qi indoor/outdoor/e-ink panel prototypes being shown at Computex. As well as being usable as a standard LCD display, the 3Qi panel can be flipped into a monochrome e-ink mode that’s incredibly power-frugal and very easy to read even in direct sunlight.

Video demo after the cut

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ViewSonic unveils three 16:9 Graphic Series displays

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Jun 2nd 2009 No Comments

ViewSonic released three brand new displays this morning that all fall within the Graphic Series for the company. Each of these displays has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a bezel that’s super thin, making them ideal for use in multi-display configurations.

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Panasonic DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player lands June

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 1st 2009 No Comments

Panasonic have announced pricing and availability for their portable Blu-ray player, the DMP-B15. Complete with an 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD, HDMI output and BD Live support, the DMP-B15 also features Panasonic’s VIERA CAST internet access via an ethernet port; that means, as on the company’s standalone Blu-ray decks, you can access Amazon Video-on-Demand, YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg and other online information.

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Sharp Five-Color LCD over 99% of visible colors

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 29th 2009 No Comments

Sharp have apparently developed a new five-color LCD that’s capable of displaying more than 99-percent of real surface colors. That means that the display is able to show almost all of the colors the unaided human eye can see, including hitherto tricky or impossible shades such as the color of the sea (emerald blue), brass instruments (golden yellow), and roses (crimson red).

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Pixel Qi demo 3Qi indoor/outdoor/e-ink netbook display

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 29th 2009 No Comments

Pixel Qi have finally demonstrated their clever 3Qi screen, which mixes together indoor and outdoor readability together with an e-paper mode. The same panel is used in both halves of this picture: on the left, it’s set to full color saturation with its backlight on, while on the right the backlight is off and the panel is in e-paper mode. The latter will be incredibly power-frugal, as e-paper only draws power when changing the display, not to maintain an image.

After the cut, outdoor readability demonstrated

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