Posted on 10/04/2006 4:58:24 AM PDT by AZRepublican
MAKUHARI, Japan--Anyway you look at it, 8.84 million pixels is a lot of points of light.
Sharp has produced a 64-inch LCD monitor that provides screen resolution four times that of normal high-definition screens. Normal HD screens have 2 million pixel points. The new Sharp monitor, which is being shown off by the company at the Ceatec consumer technology trade show in Japan this week, sports a 4096 x 2160 pixel-line resolution--double the number of vertical and horizontal pixel lines offered by a normal HD screen. This comes to almost nine million pixel points.
Small details, like plumes of smoke over an aerial shot of a rural village, can be picked out. The monitor can be divided into quarters and display four high-definition videos at once.
The screen, still in the development phase, will be targeted at film and television producers as well as medical researchers, a Sharp representative said. The exhibit is one of the more popular at the weeklong trade show taking place outside Tokyo. But eventually, these technologies trickle down to the consumer market.
The company is using the show to emphasize its role in the screen world. In August, Sharp formally began producing LCD panels out of its second Kameyama plant. The plant processes eighth-generation glass sheets, which measure 2.16 meters by 2.46 meters. Six 52-inch LCDs can be popped out of a single sheet. The smaller glass sheets processed in sixth- and seventh-generation plants can only produce two and three 52-inch panels, respectively, out of a single piece of glass.
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"Incrediable!" seriesly!!! this is hugh.
LOL Could NOT resist busting ya.
Read even farther in the article to the end. There's another fantastic item, a hand held Japanese to English/English to Japanese translator. You speak English into it and a Japanese translation comes out. You speak Japanese into it and English comes out. Given all the troubles of translating one language into another, that's even more fantastic than the LCD screen.
Of course, the data to drive it has to come in on a 2" thick 18,000 strand cable...
"There's another fantastic item, a hand held Japanese to English/English to Japanese translator. You speak English into it and a Japanese translation comes out. You speak Japanese into it and English comes out. Given all the troubles of translating one language into another, that's even more fantastic than the LCD screen."
That's pretty cool, but now we need a translater that can be put on any media mouth where the gibberish goes in and the truth is spoken.
Believe it or not, you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Such a device would be good for absolutely technical translations such as "Whereis the restroom?" but not for nuanced communications. I wonder if the reverse translation from the Japanese would come back as "The lestloom is over there on the light...watch out for godzirra!"
What amazes me even more is 35 plus years ago a TV show had this technology. As the years go by it always gives me a giggle when I see some new innovation come about and Star Trek had thunk it up back in the 60s.
I can't wait to get my hands on one!
Yech! There's such a thing as too much definition. Of course it would be cool to be able to watch four stations on election night ....
Yeah Right! Tell that to Sister Mary Margaret! Who never graded me higher than a "D" in spelling. :~D
Hdray har! Thta's a garet pciee.
Thnkas
I hope my dear hubby doesn't hear about this.
Sounds a lot like my sears washing machine. I keep renewing my insurance on it so they'll have to come out about three times a year to fix the same problem over and over. It's cost them more to keep fixing it than if they had just replaced it years ago. hehehe(diabolical laugh)
My Sharp Aquos 'rocks' also. Never thought I would like it so much.
Just what I need to watch "Dancing With the Stars", "American Idol" and other such drivel that fills our airwaves.
I had a 1990 Plymouth Voyager, the year they decided to improve the transmission.....long story short, after the first two transmissions in the first year, they gave me a letter that said they'd replace it for free as long as I owned the car....all told? 6 transmissions in under 100K......
When is the holodeck coming out?
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