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Intel To Produce Cheap LCoS Chips

Posted by timothy on from the thinner-is-better dept.

SeattleGameboy writes "NY Times has an article about Intel's plan to produce low-cost liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) chips. This could result in high-resolution 7"-thick rear-projection TV costing around $1000 by next Christmas (not to mention cheap projectors). I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ..."

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  1. Forecasting. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ...

    Yeah, that's what I said when I read that HDTV was "right around the corner." In _Commodore Magazine_. In 1988.

    Long fucking corner, that's for sure.

    --saint

  2. Oh really? by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quoth the article:
    The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing.
    They're going to bully out competition and make ethically questionable deals with other companies (cable, movie and videogame most likely) to maintain their market dominance?
  3. Moore's law for TVs??? by Beek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we going to have to upgrade our TVs as often as we upgrade computers?

  4. AAAAAAAARGH by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 4, Funny
    Intel, as well as other large chip manufacturers, should be able to expand the benefits of Moore's Law, named for Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, which accurately predicted decades ago that computer chips would continue to double in capacity roughly every 18 months, while their price would continue to fall.

    Can we please, please, PLEASE stop mentioning Moore's Law in every single freaking article about Intel?

    What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?
    1. Re:AAAAAAAARGH by keep_it_simple_stupi · · Score: 4, Funny

      What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?

      No, even better. Half as much and twice as BIG after 18 months. In 20 years we should all have drive-in theaters in our back yards. :)

  5. Re:Oops, by The_K4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I stand in front of it and say "Engage" will the whole house move?

  6. In other news: by holysin · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD has announced it will be producing even lower cost chips that while rated for lower resolution, achieve higher resolution, but only when used with much larger cooling solutions.

  7. Intel... by DaneelGiskard · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing

    Get 3.999998456 digital television sets for the price of 2.00000000 + 2.000000000? ;-)

  8. Moore's second Law by Iowaguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Moore's Second Law: The number of mentions of Moore's first law on slashdot will double every 18 months.

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    "He who laughs last, didn't get the joke."-Cap
  9. Content by raider_red · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, can someone please make a television that shows something worth watching?

    --
    It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.