Product category: Displays
News Release from: Display Technology | Subject: Large TFT panels
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 September 2005
Big TFTs drop in to replace plasma
Display Technology has already designed its first 40 and 42in TFT panels into applications outside the TV market
The large TFT panel (30in and larger) revolution is here, but it was expected that these panels would only be available to the large TV manufacturers and the massive flat screen TV market. But Display Technology (DT) has disproved this by designing-in and shipping the first Samsung 40in and LG Philips 42in panels.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 September 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Using the latest technology such as PVA (patterned vertical alignment) these panels offer fast response time, 170 degree viewing angles, high brightness and enhanced contrast to give the optimum solution.
Coupled with DT's interface solutions (RGB, video and DVI), single board computer (SBC) and touchscreen options customers can source exactly the solutions they need.
There is a huge 'plasma replacement' market, which has suffered from image burn-in, unreliable fans and heat dissipation issues, whereas TFTs offer higher resolution, lower power, reduced weight, no burn in, as well as excellent viewing angles, higher brightness and contrast.
Although still more expensive than plasma, many companies have now calculated that the TFT LCD still offers the lower cost long-term option than Plasma.
TFTs have a 5 year plus lifetime expectancy and their backlights can be replaced, whereas plasma often needs to be replaced after only around 2 years.
The lifetime costs are in fact lower for TFT than plasma, plus they offer the aforementioned advantages.
Display Technology reckons that manufacturing yields will improve and volumes will increase this year, resulting in TFT pricing dropping significantly to reduce plasma eventually to a relatively niche application product.
'We are seeing it grow month on month', said a company spokesman.
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