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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Woody Allen also got a huge jump on technological development, one that hasn't be surpassed to date. In "Sleeper" (early 1970s) he and Diane Keaton cloned a "great leader" who'd been blown up by a bomb back from nothing but his nose. Raelians, try to beat that!!
I still say my hi res crt is the best.
Katie Couric in hi-def gag alert
I'm getting my pound of flesh and sounds like you did too. lol
We got the Sharp 42 and its great. Bose 5 speaker sound system backs it up.
I'm waiting for the SED TV's coming out late next year.
NFL Sunday Ticket... WOOHOO!!!!!
Might be time to get one of these. I need one with at least a 60 inch screen to replace my 60" Hitachi projection TV. But the current LCDs are too small for my taste. I saw a 40" Samsung model the other day at Best Buy and it was fantastic but I want a bigger one. Hope the price comes down pretty soon. My Hitachi is getting a little long in the tooth at 10 years old but it has been rock solid and we flog it daily.
Fiber optics would do the trick nicely.
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