Hi all, this week's EE-Times has more monitor articles:
LCD monitors continue to drop in price. I have a friend who just bought one for $800. This was a lot more than the corresponding monitor, but he wanted the small size. And no, it wasn't for a lap top.
This 19" 1280x1024 with 200 to 1 contrast ratio sounds pretty nice to me, but I'm not the "early adopter" (i.e. rich) type. Yeah, LCDs are knocking on the door of the CRT monitor makers. (Used to be that "television" automatically implied black and white. Also used to be that "monitor" automatically implied CRT.)
Panasonic's 19-in. monitor undercuts some 18-in. tags
At a time when many monitor makers are launching 18-inch LCD monitors in the $3,000 price range, the Display Monitors Division of Panasonic Computer Peripheral Co. is introducing a 19-inch LCD monitor with an estimated street price of just $2,000. Dubbed the PanaFlat LC90s, the 1,280 x 1,024-pixel SXGA-format monitor features
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There are a huge number of different alternative technologies to CRT monitors being developed right now, and the writing is on the wall. The last refuge of major vacuum tube technology is going to go the way of the magnetic core memory. CRT monitors are heavy, dangerous (drop one and find out what happens) tend to flicker due to bandwidth restrictions on drive signals, are quite sensitive to magnetic fields, are inherently analog as opposed to digital, and are a mature technology, and so are difficult to advance. The CRT manufacturers know this, and are expanding into newer technologies, like FED:
Micron sells unit to PixTech, exits field-emission displays
At the same time, Mezger announced "a joint-development program with one of the world's largest Japanese CRT manufacturers."
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-- Carl
P.S. note to self:
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