Tag: SUPER-THIN TVS

The "bigger is better" TV trend has been around since the beginning of television, resulting in some refrigerator-sized monstrosities back in the '80s and early '90s. Today, big TVs are still hot, but thin big TVs are even hotter, with flat-panel displays getting spread out like high-tech crepes. The latest sets to enter the super-thin area are Sharp's new AQUOS X-series LCDs, which are just ...

Today, Pioneer showed off two significant concept models for its flat-panel plasma TV product line. Under the banner of Project KURO, a sci-fi-sounding internal anthem for change, Pioneer unveiled both the thinnest flat panel TV and a flat panel that boasts an unparalleled contrast ratio. To give you a better perspective, one TV has a screen frame 9mm thick (thinner than the iPhone!), as ...

Samsung will be using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week to show off a prototype OLED-TV set, a technology that promises less power-hungry display screens than what you find now in LCD panels. What is OLED, you ask? The folks at Kodak have a nice summary of the technology to help you get started. Production is expected to start later this year. While OLED screens will start ...

Back in October, Sony wowed us with delicious pictures of a ridiculously thin television, the XEL-1 OLED TV. Its screen enclosure was just three millimeters (about .1-inches!) thick -- or thin rather. Okay, so it's only 11-inches across, meaning you wouldn't want to make one the focal-piece of your home theater system. But it's hard to resist, given its lithe design. It was supposed to be ...