Sony develops new LCD display panels for projectors
Martyn Williams
Sony has refined an existing liquid crystal display (LCD) technology to come up with a display that it claims will give projectors a crisper picture.
The company said the display panels, which were based on High-Temperature Polysilicon LCD technology, offered a five-fold improvement in contrast ratio at around 2000:1 and 10 per cent better light transmittance compared to panels currently used in most of Sony's front-projectors. Front projectors are used to project an image onto the front of a wall or white screen.
The LCD panels were able to deliver a picture of quality roughly between that available from standard projectors and that from Sony's high-end Qualia 004 projector, which used Sony's proprietary SXRD display panel technology, a Sony spokesperson, David Yang, said. more...
