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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. Google Link by pegr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obligatory reg-free Google link here.

    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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  2. "TrustedTV(tm) by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Such a powerful marketing and technology combination could blend easily with Microsoft's media center software, which is aimed at using personal computing technology as the heart of home entertainment centers.

    That concerns me. Microsoft makes no bones about their "Trusted-this" and "DRM-that" direction. Considering their relationship with Intel I don't doubt that we'll see some sort of DRM crud built right into the TV to "protect consumers from themselves".

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    1. 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.

  3. You can always put it off ... by El+Cubano · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    You can always put it off for another year. Eventually you just have to take the plunge and buy it, realizing that you will kick yourself in 6 months when the same product is available for 25 - 50% less. But if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.

    1. Re:You can always put it off ... by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.

      You say that like it's a bad thing.

  4. 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

  5. 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?
  6. 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?

  7. 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."

  8. Re:What about the Light Bulb? by djbentle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article: "The true market test only started this summer," he said. "Rear-projection D.L.P. systems are flying off the shelf."

    If it hasn't slowed down DLP, it probably won't slow this down either. Besides when you pay the $200 to replace the bulb in 5 years, your DLP will look brand new, exactly as it did the day you bought it. Try that with a five year old CRT rear projection set.

    David

  9. 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.

  10. 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? ;-)

  11. is LCoS for you by HogGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read this to find out...

  12. 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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