Posted on 09/28/2005 4:08:10 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
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They're going to make TVs out of OLEO?? Wow! Think how the dairy market will benefit!
See what happens when you only read the headline? :)
Too early to say.. but it's likely 10 years before
they start rolling these 40"ers or better off the
assembly line in great enough numbers for the
average consumer. The big screen manufacturers have
got a lot of big bucks invested in some brand spankin
new LCD Plants, and they are not going to want
to switch over until the market makes it neccesary
to their bottom lines.. But it seems that day is
getting sooner and sooner, instead of staying in
the 'Long Term Goals' column... :o)
Mmmmmmm...whole wall screen TVs...
(Bowing to the wall screen...) :o)
I seem to recall that projectors have lifespan issues, but don't go by me, my memory may be faulty. There are some larger LCD TVs that look pretty good. A friend of mine got one a year ago and she likes it. You might want to read some reviews of later-model plasma TVs. They've supposedly solved some of the problems of the early models.
Me, I don't go for this newfangled stuff. I'm sticking with my good old Radiation King.
I'm waiting until they develop TV nannites that you can paint on the wall. Or direct-to-brain implants.
My opinion, at present, is go for a good LCD
projector. Makes it a lot easir to dust behind..
or move into the bedroom for some "ceiling theatre"
that'll put any Drive In to shame! :o)
If ya got a white ceiling.... i've seen
they've got a special paint, that you can
use on a wall, that mimics a projection
screens surface....you just paint it on, let
it dry, and Viola! ,you got a screen that
is big as you want it to be.
I hope not. Blu-Ray is the work of the
Devil! ( a bit of hyperbole there) But it
is not the end users best friend, it is
the Enteretainnent and copyright owners
method to gouge the consumer even more
than they allready do.
The Weirdest Technology Ever Invented
" At the heart of every DLP™ projection system is an optical semiconductor known as the Digital Micromirror Device, or DLP™ chip, which was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments in 1987".
The DLP™ chip is probably the world's most sophisticated light switch. It contains a rectangular array of up to 2 million hinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micromirrors measures less than one-fifth the width of a human hair. "
"When a DLP™ chip is coordinated with a digital video or graphic signal, a light source, and a projection lens, its mirrors can reflect an all-digital image onto a screen or other surface. The DLP™ chip and the sophisticated electronics that surround it are what we call Digital Light Processing™ technology."
I want to see the new 1080p models, but was disappointed to learn that the only was to input 1080p on those sets is from a broadcast signal. That's unfortunate because 1080p would be a great computer screen. They don't have the burn-in problem associated with CRT screens.
I work at a retailer who sells DLP projector TVs. I'm fairly impressed with the technology; the only drawbacks I see are that the contrast is difficult to adjust between too dark and whiteout, and the incandescent lamp is a great space heater if your room is too cold.
You going to have email in your casket?
Plus the back lighting is suppose to be more even.
Or is that the LED back lighting.
I wonder how much of that technology I can enjoy since I
watch so few TV shows, or movies, or concerts. Is it
really worth it???
Like the earlier poster said, ping me when its under $200.
I wonder how much of that technology I can enjoy since I
watch so few TV shows, or movies, or concerts. Is it
really worth it???
Like the earlier poster said, ping me when its under $200.
Considered it. At the time, I calculated I'd be buying 18 bulbs a year, and they're not cheap. Fan noise is a downer, plus all the heat they pour into my small apartment, plus the noise of the extra air conditioning to counteract. Need to close the blinds on a sunny day or the image washes out. Just couldn't balance all the negatives. If I could put it under glass, inside a soundproof closet, separately vented I might rethink it.
I'm about to buy a low-priced plasma on the theory that it'll tide me over for 6 years before the image deteriorates, at which time something like OLED will have become affordable.
My philosophy: I'm always buying the next-to-last TV/VCR/computer I'll ever buy.
You sound like me. I have Directv with 130 channels and I watch about six of them. A $127 RCA 27" TV sitting ten feet away works for me. :-)
My LCD wa the best thing I ever bought. More desk space, easier on the eyes, easier to move around the room, soooo much less heat in summer. The satisfaction return on investment was immediate.
I'd say don't wait for the next thing.
I think they deliberately cut off hurricane season in Nov. so that Christmmas shopping season can't be usurped by Christmas looting season.
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