LCD Developers Show Off Nev Breeds for Speed at SID 2003

摘要

In the race to start digital and high-definition TV broadcasting, display developments are accelerating. Organizers at the Society for Information Display (SID) say that was one of the principal trends at their latest U.S. show, SID 2003, which took place May 20 to 23 in Baltimore, Maryland. Exhibits and discussions also emphasized organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and displays that perform unusual functions like image input and three-dimensional (3-D) image representation. For many of the 57,000 SID visitors, though, the large-screen and TV-use panels were the most eye-catching items among the 451 exhibit booths. A press release by Nutmeg Consultants, editors of SID's Information Display magazine, notes, "(T)he increasing speed of LCD panels for TV was particularly striking. Leading manufacturers of LCD TV modules and receivers showed thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD panels with gray-to-gray switching times in the range of 10 to 12ms that go a long way toward elimi- nating the smeared moving images that marred earlier generations of LCD TVs. Sharp Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd. were notable members of this group, with Samsung and Sharp promising even faster 7ms panels within the next year."