CES 2006 - Day 2: Blu-ray/HD-DVD, PureVideo H.264, Viiv, Centrino Duo and a lot more
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on January 7, 2006 3:07 AM EST- Posted in
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Hitachi's OLED Tech Demo
Hitachi showed off their latest in Organic LED (OLED) display technology. What's unique about this technology is that each pixel on the screen emits its own light so there is no need for a backlight like in traditional LCD displays. The display on the show floor was looping video of bright, colorful scenes that Hitachi put together obviously attempting to show off the impressive color reproduction capability of the display.
The screen measured 7" diagonal with a WVGA resolution (854x480). The video being looped played smoothly with no indication of ghosting, although it did not include any fast motion scenes so we could not get a good idea of the response time.
Though the picture quality was good for a tech demo, what really impressed us was the thickness (or thinness, rather) of the screen. The display was barely over an eighth of an inch thick and completely flat (excluding the stand). Hitachi says they have no official plans to release any products using this technology yet, although considering how impressive the demo was, it's safe to assume we'll see this display being utilized in the next few years.
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DeathByDuke - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
damn right,electronic paper!
yay!
itd be cool to open a book of encyclopedia britannica and have each page display scrolling text from each article, and videos for each article too, all stored on some multi Gb flash storage in the book covers
highlandsun - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
All of the new display technologies look really intriguing. And I think it's about time someone got Uhura's earpiece done right.ComatoseDelirium - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
-Great News For AGP Users, I heard many claims that H.264 decoding wouldn't be possible, and is "broken" on the GeForce 6 series AGP cards. Good to hear from the horses mouth (owner of a 6600GT).
BTW The article index is messed up, the correct pages do not appear, can someone confirm this?
s2kpacifist - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
Need...OLED display...now... I hope they fix the problem with the life of the blue soon.shabby - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
Definetly good to hear, but its wierd that the broken cards can decode h.264 but cant accelerate wmv9.I really hope this hddvd/bluray shit gets worked out, i have no intention of buying players from both camps. Could of swore i saw a company come out with a player that read both formats some time ago.
Cygni - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
h.264 is accelerated by simply "reprograming", if you will, the standard APU's and hardware on the card. No special stuff is needed. Theoretically, its possible with ANY modern GPU. Just gotta have the drivers to do it, assuming the cards got the juice to do it. The dead video decode engine on the early 6800 AGP cards was on the other hand a specially designed piece of hardware only for decode.Nobody Else - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
I believe that was Samsung that intends to come out eith a dual player.http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?se...">Samsung Player
Aquila76 - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
The index seems to be a page ahead (clicking on Page 16 brings up Page 17)