What Are The Next Generation Of TVs Like?

Posted in Flat Screen Television by mageadmin on May 3, 2010

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I remember our huge 40 inch CRT TV we had in the front room, I thought that was as good as TVs could be, even though the back stuck out a few feet! Then the plasma TV came onto the market and suddenly you had a TV you could hang on the wall, that caused quite a stir. LCD televisions were the next onto the market, and they started to draw people away from plasma TVs that suffered with screen burn, then HDTV sprang up, so what is next on the horizon?

A new development with LCD TVs is the use of LEDs to provide a backlight instead of the bulky CCFLs (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) that have been used for years. You can get a version with LEDs that span the entire back of the screen, and that provides the best solution, or you can get ones where the LEDs just sit at the side instead, with either version then you get a super slim TV to enjoy.

Just starting to emerge now are the 3DTVs, although that technology is still in its infancy so the reaction has not been that good at the moment. Don't get me wrong, 3DTV is going to be amazing in the future, but at the moment you have to wear special glasses which ruin the experience. Currently the TVs use 'active shutter' technology which means the glasses need to have shutters in them that open and close many times a second, that gives the experience a strange flickering effect, plus reports suggest that the 3D effect on the TVs won't work if you sit more than a few feet away from the unit.

Remember these are the first generation of 3DTVs though, so the people who like to have the newest toys will buy these models, then the rest of us will wait for them to improve the technology and buy the later versions of them. There are one or two companies working on commercial applications of 3D viewing without having to wear glasses, so hopefully that will filter down into our TVs soon.

OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) are also a promising technology, which unfortunately at the moment is limited to very small computer monitors about 13 inches in size. They are still trying to make the technology work for larger screens, but if they can make it work then expect screens mere millimeters thick to grace our walls in years to come! So the future of TV is certainly interesting, I can't wait to see what things will be like in 5 years time…

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