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Sony Pursues New Digital Display Technology
ih8billy writes: "Looks like Sony is looking to replace their now patent-free Trinitron technology with something called GLV (Grating Light Valve) technology. Looks pretty promising as a digital display technology. It can do 1080p without breaking a sweat. GLV also has promise in optical signal routing."
I'm not sure how that effect could be eliminated from a device like this. It would be interesting to see it in action. The interference problem might be a little distracting.
It's also encouraging to hear that they are aiming for ultra-high resolutions like 8 million pixels. We might actually have a digital cinema system in the future that matches the resolution of 35mm film (about 10-12 million pixels). Sounds cool.
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I, for one, would be honestly surprised to learn that you did not own several thousand dollars worth of corporation-spawned leisure goods. Do you own a computer? TV? VCR? DVD Player? Stereo? Stereo in your car? CD player in your car? Playstation? Dreamcast? CD player that you can carry around with you? MP3 player that you can carry around with you? Microwave oven? Internet connection? Cell phone? Pager? Handheld computer? Laptop computer? Digital camera? Camcorder? Cordless phone? CD library? DVD library?
You're fooling yourself if you honestly think that the Big Bad Meanie Government is the driving force behind corporate corruption. It's the ever-growing leisure class that drives corporate corruption--companies put the latest and greatest thing out on the shelves and people camp out inside Wal-Mart just to get the first one. It's hard to say that the corporation is raping society when society is clawing it's clothes off like a nymphomaniac. Corporations get away with the crap they do because people just keep throwing money at them.
If you own a DVD player, you've let the RIAA/MPAA win. If you regularly buy CDs, you're part of the pipeline that feeds the recording industry. If you own a Walkman, a Discman, a Vaio, play Everquest, or buy any number of the things Sony puts on the market, then you are part of the hand that feeds Sony. How much do you think a corporation will care about what you think of their business practices if you continue to buy their products, especially when said products are not necessities by any stretch of the imagination?
Sony manufactures consumer goods. To suggest that the government is somehow responsible for their business practices is absurd. Sony does and gets away with what it does because the people care more about getting their toys than they do about the ethics of the corporation. Wake up and smell your own damn complacency.
Its almost laughable
Amen to that.
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So, will the GLV projectors have those nifty guide lines that the Trinitron tubes have? I don't think that I could type straight without them.
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Trinitrons look like dog wank once you have used one of these SGI 1600SW flat panels. Best part is, you can get them direct from SGI for either $1495 or $1395 w/video card if you know how.
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their now patent-free Trinitron technology
Thats a surprise, to think, Sony will now sell (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) after the monopoly rights runs out on their existing technology.
If there were no patents - wouldnt they have had to develop (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) sooner in order to justify selling their wares?
reminiscent of a similar move made by the company in the early 1960s. An American inventor of a new type of CRT display device called the Lawrence Tube (after the inventor) was unable to interest any U.S. television manufacturer in its worth. Sony seized the opportunity and the Lawrence Tube became the Trinitron in 1968
Had their been no patent available on the Trinitron - if the technology was freely available in the public domain - how long ago would we have been buying ourselves (GLV) The Next Big Thing(TM) Monitors?!?
It seems corporatists want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to do as they please (pollute, collude, rape), but they want the rest of us (via our Corporatist $whoring$ governments) to guarantee their pocket books...
Its almost laughable... what a wonderfully perfect display*...
This is good for more detailed technical data, etc. There are some white papers, etc. All the usual good stuff.
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That looks a little like the stuff Canon used to shave a few pounds off of it's 400mm lens. Wish I could buy (either!) now. (it's the "Multi-Layer Diffractive Optical Element" thatlooks a bit similar to some of the GLV...)
Did you not read the article yourself? "...nothing to do with replacing trinitron CRT's"? Perhaps you should read yourself, since your are now included in the "idiot" category.
"GLV technology can eliminate the CRT, replacing it with a small laser engine scanning an image on a rear-screen surface."
entire paragraph...
"A CRT is nothing more than a rear electron projector scanning the beam on a coated surface of the glass face. The glass is heavy, fragile and relatively expensive to manufacture and ship. GLV technology can eliminate the CRT, replacing it with a small laser engine scanning an image on a rear-screen surface. The elimination of the shadow-mask, a necessary part of the construction of three-gun CRT designs, will by itself allow a dramatic increase in resolution and brightness."
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Trinitrons use aperture grille technology, not traditional INVAR shadow masks. Every Trinitron is an aperture grille. The faint black line(s) you see on the screen are called damper wires - what you're actually seeing is the shadow of a very small filament that holds together the aperture grille and prevents distortion. I completely ignore them, to the point where I have to look for them to see them, but it drives some people crazy.
All Trinitron displays are at least vertically flat, meaning the screen has a cylindrical shape rather than a bulbous one (as with traditional shadow masks). Many Trinitrons are also horizontally flat, resulting in a visually flat screen, no curvature at all. The former is an example of Sony's Trinitron televisions, and their new Wegas are an example of the latter.
Trinitron technology is used in monitors other than ones made by Sony; they manufacture tubes for any number of other compaies, including Sun, Dell, and Gateway. Some SGI monitors use Trinitron tubes, as well. In fact, you can do a search and find any number of Trinitron-based CRTs.
Yes, they're damn expensive, and many technicians don't know their head from their ass around them (last week I needed to replace the 15-pin VGA connector and the tech said it took hours, instead of minutes, because Trinitrons use different color coding on the solder points than shadow masks, and mine was the first one he'd ever worked on), but if you use one, and you like it, it's hard to ever go back to shadow mask CRTs. Trinitrons produce a more crisp, detailed picture, with richer, more vibrant colors. And if you have a Wega TV (which I hope to have sometime this Spring), just walk down the aisle of your local Circuit City and look from the side at all the TVs that don't use Trinitron tubes - see how bulbous they are!
Trinitrons rock, and as far as I'm concerned I'm through with shadow masks. In fact, I probably wouldn't go for anything else outside of a direct view HDTV.
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I'd bet the price of a nice flat screen monitor made with this technology would make the price of current flat screen monitors seem pretty attractive to my boss ;)
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but in a class I'm taking right now we were discussing MPAA and DMCA. One of the (disturbing) trends in technology seems to be authentication between the host CPU and devices - basically, any peripheral you attach will authenticate with the host box, making sure they are "compatible."
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Sounds cool, doesn't it? But now companies could start being able to restrict what you hook up to your computer. Sony does like HP right now? Now Trinitrons won't work on your Pavilion PC.
DVD drives apparently have this technology already...in preparing to start your DVD drive, the CPU and the DVD drive exchange encrypted messages to make sure you can use the DVD functionality.
I didn't see it in the article, but does anyone know if this new monitor technology will definately be using this stuff? If so, be prepared to get a EULA with your next hardware purchase
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