Emerging technologies are always exciting and the same is true about OLED, but the problem with OLED flat-panel technology is that the screen sizes are still too small.
But now there is good news, as Samsung has announced that it will debut its 50-inch TV with OLED tech next year at Consumer Electronics Show that will be held in January.
This TV will be big in picture size, but it is being told that in build it is waif-like with lean and skinny OLED technology.
Televisions are being ushered into a complete different era. No longer do we have floor sets of television from earlier history. Now, we are buying LCD TVs and HDTVs, which costs several thousand dollars.While shelling out such an amount for television sets, an individual forgets the requirement for stands. Most of us try saving a little when it comes to television stand. Saving money means that you require being a little bit creative when it comes to shopping.
Alternative Options
Most HDTVs comes with stands along with them. However, those stands generally drain a nice sum from your pocket. Thankfully, you have other options to turn to. You can opt for steel kits. They are affordable, strong and come in a variety of size. Additional perk available with them is that they are very much easy to assemble. These types of TV stands usually have enough room for holding TV, DVD Player and cable box.
For most of us mobile TV is somewhat far off thing in the future, but for Orange it’s not so far at least its release of 60 high-definition mobile channels in France seems to suggest so.
Well, the news may be only of interest to the French at present, as the other European are inclined to join trendy mobile TV with a specific digital frequency that is being launched in the region gradually.
In France, Orange will bring mobile TV aside from these 60 hi-def channels and it will do so by bringing 3.5G power instead of associating it to a digital TV signal.
President of Sony Electronics, Stan Glasgow says that his company is putting focus on bringing larger OLED screens to televisions instead of following the footsteps of other rival companies that offering this technology to mobiles as well.
He explained that the company was concentrating to produce TV screens with OLED not the mobiles or other types of displays.
Samsung have been one of the busier bees at Flat Panel Display International this year, showing off a number of new technologies. But among the best of them has got to be the OLED window that lets you see through the screen.
To be fair, it’s not 100 per cent see-through (in fact only 30 per cent) but it still helps us imagine the day when we’ll be able to put a TV in a window and watch it whenever we want.
CMEL seems to believe that the time is right to bring forward its efforts in OLED TV production in the form of a 25-inch screen that is just 1mm thick.
According to the New York Times, its drawing large crowds at Flat Panel Display International and the current effort looks the largest so far at such thickness.
The post in which HANNspree announced a 28in TV with Full HD capabilities (the HT09) wasn’t less than a bombshell for many a major television manufacturers.
The HT09 has a 1920×1200 pixels screen with a 16:10 screen ratio (though not good enough for widescreen viewing, quite impressive however.)
The thing that has been especially cared for is connectivity. It has 2xHDMI ports and 2x Scart inputs aside from composite, component and VGA. Similarly, a 3ms response rate is quite helpful to jitter from quick-moving imagery.
Television is often accused of diminishing religious values, but the same accusation you can’t lay against LG’s two new 42-inch and 50-inch plasma panels as they will be available with built-in Holy Koran.
Now the high-minded viewers can read all 114 chapters of the Islamic text and hear them spoken out loud as well. It also allows them to bookmark up to ten chapters for further study.
The television has been especially launched, throughout the Middle East, at the time when the Muslims all around the world are observing fasts in the Muslim’s holy month of Ramadan that started earlier this month.
According to LG vice president Park Jong Seok, the product has been launched considering the devout Muslims who listen or read to the Koran everyday.”
Tax-free Dubai prices for these plasmas are $ 1,376 for the 42-inch model and $2,160 of the 50-inch TV.
Mitsubishi 65in TV with a side order of laserbeams will be available in $7000 as the company has made the announcement at CEDIA this year that is taking place in the US.
According to the company, its new 65in LaserVue rear-projection TV will be sold around $7K.
The cost hardly matches up with high-end HDTV that has almost similar specification. However, the company didn’t provide any detail the price of its 73in big bro.
This 10in deep LaserVue is quite larger as a modern TV, but if compared to its CRT ancestors, it is somewhat fragile. It has nice green credentials that make it consume minimal power if compared to other plasmas and LCDs.
Its mooted three dimensions are enough to make you mesmerized. The TVs will be shipped by the end of this month.
If you have got tired with the exhortations ‘ Press that red button now’, a novel twist on interactive TV , which allows you to have all chatting online while glued to the Google box, is waiting for you.
Oshaberi Terebi, a new Japanese service is behind the idea which has launched a public beta that offers real-time chatrooms to TV fans.
The users are given the option to join different chatrooms for every channel after downloading the software and starting a TV tuner. After doing that they can select avatars and start chatting with anyone who watches that show as well.
Yeah your guess is right, Oshaberi Terebei wants users to watch the mobile version of 1-seg, which is a well known digital TV in Japan and that can be added to a computer via flash drive in approx. £50.
At present, it seems that Chatterbox TV in Japan is limited to PC users but it has chances to make a nice move to mobile phones or TV sets with the Internet connection if it succeeds.
AP – August 20, 2008
Technology brings a new convergence between the traditional tube and the hottest chip manufacturer. Intel has teamed with Yahoo to bring TV widgets to reality. The new Intel Media Processor CE 3100 is embedded in television sets to bring interactive web to your living room. By partnering with Yahoo, users are provided an interface through which they can access their favorite websites.
Using the Internet to bring interactive services to television has long been a goal of many providers. However, due to a number of obstacles, it could not be achieved. There was for one slow internet connections, lack of internet-based content and few mass-marketed devices which prevented consumers from seeing internet on TV as a feasible option. With broadband coming into play, a burgeoning of content and now the CE 3100, things look set to change.
The history of TV experience shows an evolution from analogue based to the digital base. Now these traditional formats are being replaced by the internet based platforms. Intel is also working with industry to build software frameworks to bring the internet experience to the tube.
There is also plenty of data to support the market having shifted preferences for internet based TV. While watching TV, 69% 18 through 39 year olds are also on the internet according to Forrester’s North American Consumer Technology Adoption Studies. These statistics show that it was only a matter of time before the traditional and the cutting-edge merged.
A survey conducted by TV marketing body Thinkbox suggests that the surge of online catch-up services didn’t affect the traditional broadcast audience immensely.
The survey report concludes that besides broadband TV services, the traditional broadcast services are also growing with the same pace.
A spokesperson for Thinkbox said, “Broadcast as well as online TV platforms are growing at the same time; their growth greatly depends how they fulfill the needs for their viewers and they can also help to promote each other.”
Because of their on-demand nature many broadband TV services like the iPlayer, 4oD, ITV.com, Demand Five and the Sky Player are gaining popularity these days and many advertisers are trying to convert this popularity into profits.
The survey revealed that in UK, viewers spent an average 3.77 hours a day watching broadcast TV during the first six months of the year. This shows an increase of almost two percent in the five-year average for the same period.
It was also noticed that during the first half of the year there was six percent increase in TV ads viewership compared to the same period last year.
