TV – Blogvaria https://blog.evaria.com The personal pages Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:18:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 1077093 Have we reached the end of plasma panel display production? https://blog.evaria.com/2014/have-we-reached-the-end-of-plasma-panel-display-production/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:12:08 +0000 http://blog.evaria.com/?p=1532 (Reuters) – Samsung SDI Co Ltd said on Tuesday that it will shut down its plasma panel production business, citing the decline in overall demand for plasma display panel televisions. Samsung SDI, in a statement, said it will concentrate its resources on growing its energy and materials businesses. The firm plans to end all plasma display operations by November 30 2014. This follows after Panasonic’s statement from last year outlining that Panasonic’s latest television, the ZT60, is the best plasma the company has ever made. It will also be the last plasma panel to come out of the company’s research and development department, which means Panasonic will never make a higher-quality plasma television.

Rumors that Panasonic would end plasma research and development first surfaced in December 2013, and a report from Nikkei the following month said the company had closed down R&D with plans to pull out of plasma altogether as early as 2014. Panasonic Display Vice President Kiyoshi Okamoto confirmed to The Verge today at an event in New York that development has ceased, and said that the ZT60 uses “the last plasma panel” from research and development. Okamoto was quick to note, however, that panel development is not the same as television production: he made it clear that Panasonic would continue to make and sell plasma televisions into 2014 at the very least, saying that “we have a responsibility” to customers to continue production.

The only main company still producing and developing is LG, but now with all other main actors leaving the ship this might also come to an end… what do you all think?

]]> 1532 The future of Television https://blog.evaria.com/2011/the-future-of-television/ Fri, 20 May 2011 08:18:58 +0000 http://blog.evaria.com/?p=1297 Japan’s Sharp has developed an 85-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) panel with resolution equivalent to 16 times that of today’s HDTV panels. The screen, which is only a prototype, was developed for Super Hi-Vision, a next-generation television system currently under development in Japan.


Picture above obviously doesn’t illustrate anything more but the size…

At 7,680 pixels by 4,320 pixels, Super Hi-Vision images will have four times as much detail horizontally and vertically than the best of today’s HDTV images.

The system is being developed by Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), and demonstrations of early prototypes have shown a very detailed image with beautiful colours. The images are so good, the viewer can feel immersed in a scene in a way not possible with current 3D TV technology.

The first public trials of Super Hi-Vision are due to start around 2020 and the development of the LCD screen is the latest in a number of steps towards that goal.

Because of the large amount of detail in each Super Hi-Vision image – each frame is equivalent to a 33-megapixel picture – highly complex cameras, mixing and switching systems, and recorders and transmission equipment need to be made to handle the huge bandwidth of the video image.

I for one really wish they’ll make this available much sooner 🙂 Really sounds like your Blue Ray player could end up in the closet along your VHS and Beta player…

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