HDTV: A Shopper’s Survival Guide

Check out the great BusinessWeek article on the current trends in digital television and HDTV. What are some of the latest technologies out there and what trends should we expect for the next few years. The article discusses topics at high-levels and is therefore not necessarily to informative for real home theater geeks.

Check it out if you’d like.

-Dr. D.

Side Projection Flat-Panel Display Startup Moves Forward

As mentioned in an earlier blog entry, the newly developed flat-panel technology by Cambridge Flat Projection Display Ltd. is raising a number of eye-brows in the display industry. The startup has now received funding to proceed in its development phase and also build capabilities to license the technology. United Kingdom's National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has provided £150,000 ($285,000) in funding to allow this emerging technology to develop additional prototypes and draw more interest from corporate sponsors.

Learn more at EE Times

- Dr. D.

LCD Display Technology Improved

Finnish company Oy Modilis, Ltd recently announced a new, unique lightguide which features controlled viewing angle for TFT-LCDs. This results in less display components and thinner, more cost-effective display solutions. Being able to offer flat-screen display solutions that are brighter, thinner and cheaper than the existing solutions is surely going to raise interest among manufactures of all hardware systems that uses lcd screens from digital cameras and desktop monitors to PDAs and mobile phones.

Learn more at PhysOrg.com

- Dr. D.

Dual Displays for Gaming

More and more video cards are available with multiple monitor support. Having two monitors can often improve your effectiveness in day-to-day tasks, allowing you to brows the Web on one display while checking email or writing a document on the other display. As dual (or sometimes more) displays become more and more common, it’s surprisingly few gaming companies that have developed games that can leverage dual displays. Tom’s Hardware Guide discusses this topic in an interesting article.

Learn more here.

- Dr. D.