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LCD Pixel Response Time Halved

Posted by Hemos on from the speeding-things-up dept.

kagaku writes "Japanese newspaper the Nihon Kaizai Shimbun (evil registration required) said that Mitsubishi has mastered a technology to improve the response speed of pixels on LCDs by 100 per cent or more. It's done this by getting rid of the afterimages on screens which known as "ghosts", said the newspaper, and invented a proprietary system called Dual Domain Bend. It cites unnamed sources at Mitsubishi saying that this method produces a response speed of one millisecond when power is applied and five milliseconds when the lights go off and the power goes down. That, the paper said, compares to up to forty milliseconds to switch pixels on and off. While the technique, when it gets to the manufacturing stage, will have immediate benefits for PC monitors, it will also help narrow the gap between LCD TVs and plasma displays, which have a quicker response speed. Here's a non-registration required link."

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  1. I like the link by bert.cl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the non-registration link really tells me a lot more than the blurb... or not ... them evil registrations...

    1. Re:I like the link by flonker · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, you read the article?

    2. Re:I like the link by bert.cl · · Score: 5, Funny
      Why yes,

      I am new here, can you tell?

  2. read again by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 5, Funny

    "100 per cent or more"

    It is actually less than 0ms. The images will appear on your screen before your GPU is even done with it!

    Perfect for duke nukem forever!

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  3. Article Text... by OzRoy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow! This is a great way to preempt a dying web server. Post the entire article in the summary instead of relying on karma whores.

  4. Re:Plasma Televisions are not ready for primetime. by neonstz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...or maybe your eyes are just tired of watching TV 16-18 hours every day in 9 months?

  5. Re:Plasma Televisions are not ready for primetime. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep, but it it was rather easily fixed when I realized my cat had been playing with the remote control.

  6. Great: by headqtrs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just in time for Doom 3....

  7. Re:Not exactly an explanation by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well they tried exorcism on the individual pixels first and that didn't seem to work.

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  8. Re:Not exactly an explanation by T-Kir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although the swivel base kept turning the display unit around in circles.

    ;-)

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  9. Re:Not exactly an explanation by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but who wants a monitor that keeps spitting grean soup at you and telling you that your mother is in there?
    I'll keep my 16ms thank you.

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  10. What good is such a display ... by MarkoNo5 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... if the pixels only respond half of the time ?

  11. Re:The Samsung 710T has basically no ghosting. by Nahor · · Score: 2, Funny
    And I have never noticed any ghosting whatsoever while playing games like [...] Doom 3 [...]
    It's easy, switching from a black image to a back image never flickers. I can even play without turning the monitor on!!