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Sanyo-Epson Announce 7.1-inch 1080p LCD

voidunknown   on 17 October 2006 - 17:11 · 10 comments & 7061 views

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Crazy! But I have to wonder, WHY you would want 1080p on such a small display? I doubt you could tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p on a 7.1" display. Must be one of those "Because we can" deals.

"You'll hear people argue endlessly about the merits of paying that 1080p cost premium on say, television panels of 37-inches or below. Hell, you'll be lucky to find a 37-incher throwing that Full HD resolution in the first place. So hang on to your azzhats kids, 'cause Sanyo-Epson just announced this 7.1-inch TFT LCD panel capable of that "Full HD" 1080p sweetness.

Even with all those pixels, Sanyo-Epson is claiming that power consumption is "low" on this "thin" panel yet come up short on the details. Too bad 'cause we'd love to see how it stacks up against Samsung's single-chip 7-incher capable of a mere 854x480 pixels. What we do know is that these panels are destined for mobile digital TV devices and hopefully UMPCs to bump that all-too-common 7-inch, 800x480 display to a whopping 1920x1080 pixels -- assuming same or greater battery life, naturally. What, who ya callin' greedy!?

Now if that's still not small enough for you then try on their 2.6-inch TFT LCD panel also announced, touting a 1024x768 XGA resolution and destined for PMPs and cellphones. The panels will be on display at FPD International in Japan starting tomorrow where we hopes to gets additional details and wafer-thin snaps held by waffer-thin models -- you know, as these things tend to go."

News source: Engadget

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#1 hotdog963al on 17 Oct 2006 - 17:19
AWESOME!!!
#2 Spartan_X on 17 Oct 2006 - 17:21
sounds like something Sony will want to use on PSP2... Blu-Ray Nano anyone?

Ken Kutaragi "you need BDN and it's 7.5gb of data storage to jack your mobile games into the Matrix"
(1 reply) #3 Post-It Note on 17 Oct 2006 - 17:27
You laugh now, but the home-made projector people will be all over this.
#3.1 Jesse Carlton on 17 Oct 2006 - 18:43
Quote - Post-It Note said @ #3
You laugh now, but the home-made projector people will be all over this.


That's exactly what I thought! now would this be cheaper because it's smaller, or more expensive because it's advanced?
#4 redmosquito on 17 Oct 2006 - 17:40
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Crazy! But I have to wonder, WHY you would want 1080p on such a small display? I doubt you could tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p on a 7.1" display. Must be one of those "Because we can" deals.


is that a bad thing?

"we show you we actually CAN do it, now you think about how we could actually USE it", may be the intention and thats so freaking right. innovation.
(1 reply) #5 neufuse on 17 Oct 2006 - 17:52
why? because that is a HIGH number of dots per inch... the more DPI you can get in a small area the clear the text and image (if the image supports that DPI of course)
#5.1 QuarterSwede on 17 Oct 2006 - 18:30
Exactly! I've seen 1920x1200 on a 15" display and it was beautiful. I can't imagine seeing it on a 7" screen. The resolution is probably so good you can't even tell there are pixels looking at proper viewing distance. This is great for the future!
#6 eangulus on 17 Oct 2006 - 22:45
This would be great forincar entertainment.

7" is the usuall size for mounting in headrests.

High Def in the car. Now that wouldbe sweet.
#7 bluep3ace on 17 Oct 2006 - 23:25
If you can have 1920x1200 on a laptop, why not on a LCD monitor?
#8 predator001 on 18 Oct 2006 - 09:49
surely the army or hospitals could use good displays that are easily small enough for transport in vehicles/ambulances etc?

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