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Intel Delays TV Chip Launch
portscan writes "The Financial Times is reporting that Intel has dropped a planned technology that would have halved the price of big-screen televisions by year end. This is the latest mistep in Intel's consumer market strategy. Slashdot has reported on the technology, LCOS, before."
Now that it can continue its hold on big-screen technology, Texas Instruments can implement its new plan to please geeks everywhere...the big screen graphing calculator! No more squinting to see how that integral came out with the TI-8900--no sir!
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be sold very near the price of a similary sized rear projection
Rear projections have not been very successful in Europe. I guess it is cultural thing. We just don't have big enough rears to make it worthwhile projecting anything.
Does this new chip make the Internet go faster like other Intel chips?
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
I heard that Intel only discovered late on that light couldn't get from the LCOS chip to the screen because of the 6lb copper heatsink on the LCOS chip required to keep it cool.
No, No, No!
You've got it all wrong.
You don't want to block the competition from working on it.
The "American" way is to patent the idea, let the others work on it while you sit back and do nothing, then make them pay you for the right to use "your" invention that they developed.
[some time ago]:
Intel will be releasing [product] that will change [computers|entertainment] forever, [real soon now].
6 months later:
Yes, really very soon now, any day actually...
[some indeterminate time in future]
Intel has used the Chewbacca defense mixed with the Monty Python "it's not dead yet" slogan.
Real technology you can buy today. For everything else, there is marketing...
Note the marketing talk: "wide-screen". Surely "wide" must be better than, well, standard, no ?
I've been irritating TV salesmen by saying "No, I want a TV with a tall screen, not one that looks like a midget."
How on earth is that interesting? They're not trying to make it sound "illegal". You only got that impression because that's what you want to think. "Stolen the lead" is a perfectly accepted, neutral phrase, meaning "to lose the lead to someone performing better than you", not "to have the lead mercilessly and cruelly ripped from your oh-so-righteous hands, like dingoes snatching a beautiful little baby".
Of course, this is slashdot, where every post that panders to the common consensus is modded up, and vice versa.