Samsung Unveils 82 Inch LCD

karvind writes "Physorg is reporting that Samsung Electronics has developed the world's largest liquid crystal display panel. This 82-inch TFT-LCD is 17 inches larger than LCD flat panel previously developed by Sharp. This development challenges plasma display panels in this market area. This full HD image quality (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) TFT-LCD panel was developed at the company's new production complex in Tangjeong, Korea. The soon-to-be operational 7th-generation production facility uses glass substrates that measure 1.87m x 2.20m."

Comments

size/resolution

[Boeboe]

1,920 x 1,080 pixels. It could be me, but it does look quite low for a screen that big.

Re:size/resolution

[Silwenae]

1920x1080 is the MPEG HDTV standard. The TV does exactly what it should do.

Now granted, if you wanted to use it as a computer monitor, it would be different, but 99% of folks are going to use this as a TV, so that resolution is right on.

Re:size/resolution

[dfn5]

It could be me, but it does look quite low for a screen that big.

This display is mainly intended for portable MP3 players, so they really didn't need a high resolution.

Re:size/resolution

[EulerX07]

My beef is that since it's the same resolution, you could probably go with a 40-60" one, sit a few feet closer to the tv, and buy yourself a small car with the money you save.

Re:size/resolution

[uradu]

Your beef?! Do go buy yourself a 40-60" one, along with that small car. This particular model is for those who already have a fleet of small (and large) cars, and need a large central TV to frame with all the other 40-60" ones they already have. IOW, you're NOT the target market for this model, so don't take it personally that it doesn't come bundled with a small car.

rejects

[solarlux]

I wonder how many get tossed to make that one 82-incher....

Re:rejects

[Jagen]

Probably not anymore than when they make an apple 23inch dislay, the number of transistors is the same in both (same res).
In fact given that the size of each transistor is larger in this screen it probably has a lower reject rate than the apple displays.

Re:rejects

[Vihai]

Probably it's the opposite; when the surface gets bigger, the probability of finding impurites (and thus bad pixels) gets higher.

Re:rejects

[jackstack]

There's got to be other factors other than transistors per unit area. These displays are made up of many different layers. Getting 5-10 micron features to line up perfectly from layer to layer over 2 meters can be nontrivial. Also, I've heard that the glass sheets used to make the active matrix of transistors can begin to behave like paper when they get that large (i.e. they can bend quite easily).

Also - the transistors are still photolithographically defined... which means they have to spin coat a photoresist. The wafers used to make your pentium chips are about a 1ft (.3m) in diameter. These are nearly 7 times larger and are not circular. So... imagine a rectangular piece of glass 2m in one dimension spinning at 3000 revolutions per minute. How does this effect yield? I don't know. But one thing I'm pretty sure about is that larger is not easier.

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean that
I'm eventually going to see a naked woman in 1:1 scale?

Re:So...

[Dogtanian]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean that I'm eventually going to see a naked woman in 1:1 scale?

Don't know about that; but I'm overjoyed personally, as it's the first time my 82-inch penis will be able to be seen in 1:1 scale on an LCD.

Bleh.... seriously, would anyone *really* want an 82-inch penis? Truth is, I'm not that big, but I'm perfectly happy with my 82cm.

What was that at the back? "82mm more like"? Yeah, well maybe so, but it's what you do with it that counts. I hope... *sob*

Re:So...

[Tony Hoyle]

If you can afford that screen try going into the big blue room.. you can buy some real 3d women for a lot less (often the cost of a couple of drinks).

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll need to take out two loans; one to buy the thing and the other to afford power it

Re:Great

[imsabbel]

its no plasma, so it shouldnt need much more power than your CRT TV.

But one thing is to be considered: if it is as bright as a small tv, a white picture should be seriously blinding... 2 or 3000 lumen are headlight quality...

Press release from Samsung + pic!

[binaryDigit]

Here is the press release striaght from Samsung along with a picture of the beast. Wonder how much power this thing soaks up and how much heat it puts out?

Nice but...

[Ironsides]

82" is nice and all, but I'd rather have their 102" Plasma"

Larger Than....

[goneutt]

So now we have an 82 inch TV. And 60 inch waistlines.

Priorities People.

Correcting your math, as requested

[Animaether]

Without pulling up the actual specs...
2.2m = 220cm
220cm / 1920pixels = 0.114583cm/pixel
Or, in other terms, about 1.15mm/pixel

1.86m = 187cm
187 / 1080pixels = 0.173148cm/pixel
Or, in other terms, about 1.73mm/pixel

Slightly non-square, I'd imagine if I'd pull up the actual specs of the display panel itself (not the entire casing) I'd get square, and smaller, pixels yet.

What a waste

[Perl-Pusher]

High Resolution 82 inch monitor, low resolution internet porn. Is that a fuzzy breast or a sand dune?

What advantages over a DLP projector?

[ites]

Why would anyone buy such a piece of equipment in preference over a good DLP projector?

A projector is light and can be easily moved. It gives you a huge display, with comparable resolution and brightness. It is cheaper. It can double up for business use, and can be carried in one hand. And when it's switched off, you get your living room back.

The only disadvantage of a projector is that it can be a little noisy - DLP chips get very hot and need a lot of cooling.

And perhaps there are no projectors with built-in TV decoding, which I don't care about personally since I don't have TV, and only watch DVDs.

Re:What advantages over a DLP projector?

[Steve525]

The only disadvantage of a projector is that it can be a little noisy

Actually, the biggest disadvantage of a front projector is that they are only good in dim to dark rooms. The white screen necessary to reflect the projected light also reflects all the other light in the room. Perhaps if Sony's ChromaVue screen becomes readily available, this will change.

Megapixels?

[imroy]

From TFA:

Pixels: 6.22 million (number of RGB sub-pixels)

Yes, that's 1920 x 1080 x 3 = 6220800. I can't wait until the camera manufacturers catch onto this new method to inflate the number of "megapixels" in their cameras. Fifteen megapixels here we come!

(Just don't mention the bayer pattern used on CCD's)

Re:Eventually?

[TGK]

Clearly you and I are interested in different kinds of pr0n...

Re:Blue pixels?

[iainl]

No, my LCD runs Windows just fine ;-)

Being sensible for a moment, it's OLED that has the "blue pixel death" problem, not LCD, so you should be fine. LCDs don't have the short half-life of plasma and OLED (they just look like crap to start with).