Move Over Plasma TVs: Nano-Screens Are Coming

Motorola revealed its first working nano-emissive display  
 

 


  Motorola revealed its first working nano-emissive display (NED) prototype on Monday at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Boston. The company hopes its five-inch diagonal proto-television will attract licensees not yet convinced that Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and plasma screens are the future of high-definition entertainment.

The wafer-thin display -- it's just one-eighth of an inch thick -- is actually just one section of a theoretical 42-inch television, which could be mounted on a wall and play DVD movies that look just as bright and clear as they would on LCDs. If companies such as Panasonic and Sony choose NED, they could start manufacturing high-definition sets as early as 2007 -- and at the highly competitive price of under $1000.

Read the full article in Technology Review

Posted: May 25, 2005 6:32AM by dave

 
 
 
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