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Philips Working on LCD TV Ghosting

Posted by Hemos on from the ghost-in-the-machine dept.

agentfive writes "Philips is working on a new lamp technology to eliminate ghosting. Ghosting is a problem in LCD TVs when tiny pixels creating the image take time to switch on and off and can't do it fast enough. The problem, widely recognized as the main drawback of LCD TVs, is apparent in fast moving objects such as tennis balls, but even slower moving images get fuzzy. Philips will do something similiar to a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) by switching the fluorescent backlight on and off at a rapid pace."

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  1. So... I guess you could say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're ghostbusting.

    1. Re:So... I guess you could say by datafr0g · · Score: 5, Funny

      "There's something I forgot to tell you guys, don't cross the beams"

      "Why?"

      "It would be bad"

      "Bad?"

      "Imagine every pixel on the screen exploding at the speed of light"

      "Ok, good safety tip there guys!"

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  2. Stick a fork in this LCD garbage by systemic+chaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    FINALLY. Boy will I be glad when CRT technology becomes cheap enough to replace those dinky, thin, horridly outdated panel displays. Then we can fully realize the classic sci-fi television wet dream of dozens of small egg-shaped monitors placed mere fractions of feet apart to simulate a single, moderate-sized screen!

  3. Did a little too much LDS? by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny
  4. Re:motion blur. :D by bfischer · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your "megahurts", then maybe you are doing it wrong. ;)

  5. Re:Great. by fingerfucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yaeh, I ovelrooked taht one. Mabye I'm dyslecix.

  6. They do this out of spite... by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly, they are doing this simply to spit those of us who use XMAME. We just got rid of refresh-rate mismatches by switching to LCDs, and now the LCDs are going to be getting a 60Hz refresh-rate...

    DAMN YOU PHILIPS!!! WHY WON'T YOU JUST LET ME PLAY SHINOBI???

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