HDTV/3D TV News
Samsung has announced that it expects to sell 2 million LED TV units this year, as the LED market hots up.
The LED-backlit TV market is expect to grow to a peak in 2011-2012, competing with LCD and Plasma TV’s as conventional cathod-ray tube TV’s are replaced.
Samsung already claims that it expects to cover a third of the LED TV market by that time.
The company introduced a set of LED TV’s in March, and says it has sold a half million sets from orders in July alone. Samsung is currently showcasing the LED TV Couple at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany today
LED TV sets are still more expensive than LCD and Plasma TV’s, but are far thinner, with Samsung showcasing a proof of concept TV at the Berlin IFA that is only 6mm thick.
LED TV is also expected to serve as a stepping stone to more advanced Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode technology – AM-OLED for short. AM-OLED TV’s do not require backlighting, use less power, are thinner, yet offer a detailed high definition picture.
Samsung’s announcement is a shot across the bows to rivals LG, who also aim to be big in the LED market.
Hopefully LG’s foray into LED will be better than their push into the Plasma TV market, which saw LG trying to sell TV’s at consumers that suffered from time delay on the audio, as well as solarisation problems.
so thats a third of people watching tvs with awful colour rendering, greens look like traffic lights on all samsung tvs and monitors i have seen, very distracting once you’ve noticed it.
As a design engineer in electronics, it never ceases to amaze me how badly adjusted most TV’s are. Either too bright, too much contrast, or the colour is turned way up.
So long as people can’t tell a good picture from a bad one, HD will never catch on. Digital TV is also lower quality than the old analogue, but no-one seems to have noticed… I wonder why?
LED, Plasma, LCD, CRT, projection- the only reason they are popular is because themarketing people tell us they are. Compare an old Sony trinitron side by side to any new TV, and you’ll see that twenty year old technology still walks all over the modern stuff.
I agree Fred that CRT has a better quality picture than LED /LCD but for me to have a 46″ tv screen in CRT I would need a massive TV and would be difficult to hang it on the wall :)
We need to move on and these big screens are improving year on year
Yes Peter we need to move on, but do we really need to move backwards !
Only when they equal what went before, or improved upon it, should these things reach the market place.
In some households these wall hanging jokes are considered a status symbol, not as a mark of the buyers stupidity.
I agree with Fred, CRT is better but then one could argue that an expensive record player with a new pickup and brand new vinyl record could produce a sound better than a CD. I never bought that argument.
LCD / Plasma TV’s are set up for showroom display so that they can “outshine” the sets next to them. Proper adjustment is paramount and indeed there are some companies offering to do this for customer.
I have held off getting a large HDTV set because of the lack of source material. Now Freesat HD is avaialble I’m likely to get an LED or Plasma TV – 46 inch or 50 inch. My 32 inch CRT is still good but HD is compelling.
I have a 20″ DELL Trinitron CRT that’s probably 20 years old, and its picture is still FAR superior to any LCD/LED flat panel I’ve ever seen, in terms of color depth/contrast/brightness/sharpness.
All this HD 1080p is such hype. When I first heard about “HD” and saw the resolution, I was like HUH? Excuse me, but my old-ass monitor’s highest reported resolution is 1800×1440 and has been for two decades. For a standard 3×4 picture, that’s almost 400 more lines of resolution than 1080p, so I really don’t know what all the hype is about. I normally have it set to 1600×1200, because frankly anything sharper at this size is overkill.
On the other hand, 1080p on a 46″ screen is not nearly crisp enough to use it as a computer monitor. It looks blurry, and it’s even worse if one sits far away from it and happens to be near-sighted.