Hitachi's whopping hi-res display
One of the only new product releases so far this week features another display acronym that's clamouring for a place in our affections: LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon). Hitachi has just unveiled two massive new LCOS displays, made up of four 50-inch or 70-inch screens, which it sees being used in places like traffic control centres and stock exchanges. As one might guess from that and the scale of the things, the price tags are firmly in luxury car territory: Y10.5 mn for the 70-inch model and Y8.4 mn for the 50-inch. That gets you (in the larger version) a screen measuring 1.4 m x 1 m, which sounds big enough to satisfy the most demanding viewer.
[Via Nikkei BP (Japanese); Hitachi press release (Japanese)]
[Update: According to an article on japan.cnet.com Hitachi is going to try and get a consumer model on sale within the year. They also claim theirs is the world's first commercial-use product, and emphasise the advantages over DLP in terms of resolution and colour reproduction.]
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