At CES 2007, many new technologies for televisions are creeping up. Companies including HP, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Sharp and LG Electronis have never offered a wider array of various models with different feature sets. If you’re planning on buying an HDTV soon, make sure to do your homework. You will want to wait, however, until June 2007, for everything to be released.
Here are the four main features to watch out for:
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News source: PC World
Here are the four main features to watch out for:
- High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1.3: Faster data throughput, higher color bit depth, higher-quality audio, among other things.
- Two-way CableCards: program guide information, video on demand, and so on.
- 120-Hz refresh rate LCDs: doubled refresh rate (standard is 60-Hz) equals less blur in motion scenes.
- LED-backlit LCDs: Better color, faster response (often found on sets with the 120-Hz refresh rate).
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On a monitor, the refresh rate only affects whether your eyes get tired or not, but they don't have that problem on a TV.
Heck, all computer LCDs are 60hz and nobody complains.
Look around in quake 3 or any other fps game with 500hz usb rate and 60fps/hz then do the same in 120hz/fps. Much easier on the eyes to watch big transitions at high fps (like looking around), and you get more responsive feel of the game. Fast and competitive online games like Battlefield 2, UT2004 and especially Quake 3 really benefits from 100ish fps/hz.
A 120hz high-PPI OLED that also can run at 100 (battlefield2) and 85 (ut 2004) would be all right
see Vista high dpi mode:
http://jooh.no/web/Vista_high_dpi.png
Most LCD panels are cross-application (that is, useful for multiple applications), so doubled-frequency LCD panels would indeed see more usage (not just in the HDTV sector, but even, perhaps especially, in the PC/console display sector) especially in terms of gaming, where the 60 Hz refresh rate is a disadvantage for LCD panels vs. the still-extant CRT.
In a semi-related story, Westinghouse Digital Electronics (actually longtime Chinese display manufacturer/marketer CMO, which used to sell PC displays in the US under its own brand) *continues* their re-invasion of the United States CE marketplace with two additional WS LCD displays (19" and 22"
Sony's got a 27" OLED, that's 11 mm thick.
I'm holding out for the wireless HDMI *drool*
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