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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. Re:Google Link by akaina · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Story is "By JOHN MARKOFF" ???
    The same dude that demonized Mitnick to keep his paycheck?

    This guy is still working? What a jerkoff. He was probably paid by Intel to write that story.

    more detail here:
    http://www.simson.net/clips/96.IU.MitnickMa rkoff.h tml

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    Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
  2. Cheap panels by presearch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will there be $1000 panels or $3000 panels with a much higher profit margin?

    Then again, there might be a new, huge mass market for large panels...

    "Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.

    Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover,
    so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."

  3. Re:"TrustedTV(tm) by Ben+Hutchings · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I expect that in the future video cameras will detect watermarked images and refuse to record them.