What's DTV, HDTV, DLP, SED and All That Stuff?
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NEWNEWVISUALVISUAL 2005 2005 SOLUTIONSSOLUTIONS THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE GUIDE TO DIGITAL VISUAL SOLUTIONS AND DIGITAL CONVERGENCE What’s DTV, HDTV, DLP, SED and all that stuff? How does it work? What can I really use it for? Who makes what? Who sells what? How can I choose? By Cleverdis ARTISTIC SERIES FLATRON L1940P 26mm Every high-performance machine needs a high-performance engine. The world’s first picture-enhancing chip for LCD monitors. FLATRON L1730S 17 TFT LCD Monitor Too fast to chase! response time breaks the speed limit. LG FLATRON EDITORIAL INFORMATION Contents A CLEVERDIS PUBLICATION 116 avenue Eugène Mirabel, 13480 Cabriès • France CHAPTER 1 Tel : + 33 4 42 77 46 00 - Fax : + 33 4 42 77 46 01 CES Innovations Honorees E-mail : [email protected] 07 www.cleverdis.com SARL capitalised at €128,250 - VAT FR 95413604471 08 LCD TV RCS Aix-en-Provence B 413 604 471 - 00024 11 Projection TV 13 Plasma Publisher: Gérard Lefebvre Publishing Director: Jean-Guy Bienfait 15 New CRT Technologies Editor-in-Chief: Richard Barnes 17 Monitors Design & Page Setting: Valentina Russo Cover: © LGe, Samsung, Brillian Printing: Imprimerie Toscane (Nice - 06) CHAPTER 2 With the participation of: Xin Corre, Tatiana Gerassimato, What’s good for what? How to choose? 19 Anne Michalczyk, Arnaud Monge, Raphaël Pinot, Marie-Armel Raut, Colin Sharp, Bettina Spegele. 20 The Flat Screen Revolution Selecting a Flat TV (LCD & Plasma TV) © CLEVERDIS 2005 22 Registration of Copyright January 2005 - ISSN pending 25 Display Quality Criteria - Yves Faroudja Information presented in this publication is purely indicative in 26 Rear Projection TV - The Bigger Brother for a Smaller Price order to illustrate subjects contained therein. No guarantee 28 What you need to know about Front Projectors can be given as to the accuracy of data or content at time of printing and thus the latter should not be used to professional 30 Projection Applications or commercial ends. While all efforts have been made as to accuracy and pertinence of content and data contained in 32 iMatte - Inhibition is good this publication, CLEVERDIS may in no case be held 33 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 responsible for the consequences, whatever their nature may be, that may result from the interpretation of this data or 34 How to choose a PC Monitor content, or any eventual errors therein. Forward Looking Statements: The information contained in this CHAPTER 3 publication, including any “forward-looking statements'' within Spotlight on HDTV the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 37 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 contained herein, should be reviewed in conjunction with all 38 HDTV publicly available information regarding those Companies cited herein, copies of which are available from those 40 Buying an HDTV Companies upon request. Such publicly available information 43 LCOS 1080p rear-projection TV sets forth many risks and uncertainties related to the business of those Companies and such statements, including risks and 44 High Definition Recording Formats uncertainties related to that are unpredictable and outside of the influence and/or control of the Company. CHAPTER 4 All rights are reserved. Any reproduction of the content of this The Evolution of the Visual Display Market 47 publication, even partial, by any procedure whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without the prior authorisation of the 48 The Roadmap - Ross Young - DisplaySearch publisher. Any copy, whether by photography, photography film, magnetic tape, disc or other means constitutes a forgery, 52 Microdisplay-based RPTV may dominate 46” TV sales liable to punishment under French law under the legislation of 11th March 1957 covering copyright. All brands cited in this publication are registered trade marks and/or belong to CHAPTER 5 companies which are their respective proprietors. The What’s Inside? 55 publishers and editorial staff decline all responsibilty as to opinions formulated in this publication by those interviewed LCD & Plasma Technology or cited therein. Their opinions are entirely their own, and are 56 included with the understanding that they contain, to our 58 DLP Technology knowledge, no malicious intent. The inclusion of all texts, photographs and other documents supplied by those included 59 LCoS + New Technology SED in the encyclopaedia imply the acceptance by their authors 60 Technology guru - Bruce Berkoff - LG.Philips LCD of their free publication therein. Documents and photgraphs are not returned. It should be understood that this publication 62 LCD vs Plasma (LG.Philips LCD) contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be CHAPTER 6 deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and Key Players Explain 63 assumptions include assumptions relating to the timing of the record date. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialises 64 Vision of a market leader - Stan Oh - LGE or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the expectations outlined in these 66 Vision of a market leader - Shin Man Yong - Samsung statements. Cleverdis assumes no obligation and does not Don’t You Listen to What the Man Says - Ian Miller - Samsung intend to update these forward-looking statements during the 68 period of publication. 71 Appendix - Glossary Photo Credits and Copyright: All Rights Reserved. 4 I New Visual Solutions •January 2005 www.cleverdis.com Preface by Gérard Lefebvre Publisher When I attended work in North America, in which we have but a rear-projection TV. The sales guy had last September’s broadened our reach to span many kinds of actually sold it as a plasma TV! This is a pretty HDTV conference buyers and indeed resellers of “New Visual extreme case, but our own surveys in various in Los Angeles organized by DisplaySearch Solutions”. Indeed, we take this educational shops around the US have found a particularly and Insight Media, I noted there was an role very seriously, and are working towards low level of sophistication among sales-people. underlying theme through all the sessions: We major distribution through the sales channel to Add to this the fact we’re all bombarded with have to educate the market. Over and over those who probably need to be informed more too much confusing and sometimes downright again I heard this said, by manufacturers, than anyone else – the resellers. false information, and you can understand that broadcasters and those involved in the there’s a real problem here. distribution and sales of digital products and While we hear a lot of rhetoric about educating It also has to be said that there are some HDTVs, and I said to myself, “hey, we can help and informing people, it has to be said that companies pushing not only to innovate, but to here!” there are some players in the market who are quite happy to keep buyers in the dark. We educate and inform buyers to the best of their Over the past seven years, Cleverdis has been even heard of at least one person who had ability. One way of doing this has been by instrumental in educating corporate and been sold a lovely plasma screen and took it supporting this guide through advertising and I institutional buyers of display solutions around home only to be told by a more technically would like to thank those who have supported the world. 2005 marks a turning point in our aware friend that it wasn’t a plasma TV at all, this work in this way. Editorial by Richard Barnes Editor in Chief Welcome to the informing the public, it’s important to reward Insight Media. Constantly hearing people new world: a innovation, and as the CES honors the top talking about LCD, PDP, DLP, LCoS, SED and so world where your eyes feast on a sea of light innovations of our time, we highlight those on can give the best of us a headache. In our and color, and everything seems just that little innovations in the next pages. “What’s Inside” section, we give you the bit more real. Colors are truer, images are lowdown on all that “techie” stuff. To wrap up, sharper, and the choice of ways to view this When looking for a “visual solution” the first we look at the visual display industry through world is virtually infinite. thing people want to know, among the plethora Welcome to the first publication to concentrate of new-tech monitors and TVs, is “what’s good the eyes of some of its highest fliers, with the solely on the “visual” side of audio-visual for what?” With this in mind, we outline all the outlook from two market leaders, those who solutions, a field that’s daunting for even the basic kinds of visual displays on the market at probably have the biggest presence at CES – best educated buyer. the moment and what they’re best at doing. LG Electronics and Samsung. Through numerous initiatives, the CEA is doing With HDTV becoming all the rage, we then an exceptional job in helping people make the have a chapter dedicated to HDTV. Of course, We sincerely hope you get good use out of this right choice when delving into digital price and availability are extremely important guide and look forward to your comments and technologies, and we’re very proud to be able factors… so to get a better understanding on to work alongside them by launching this guide how the market is evolving, we hear from top feedback! (Please contact us through our at CES Las Vegas 2005. While educating and analysts in the field – from DisplaySearch and website – www.cleverdis.com ) www.cleverdis.com New Visual Solutions •January 2005 I 5 CLEVERDIS•2005 I NEW VISUAL SOLUTIONS CES INNOVATIONS HONOREES 08 >LCD TV 11>Projection TV 13 >Plasma 15>New CRT Technologies 17>Monitors www.cleverdis.com New Visual Solutions •January 2005 I 7 WHAT’S NEW IN 2005 > CES INNOVATIONS HONOREES IN THIS SECTION, WE HIGHLIGHT THE HONOREES OF THE CES INNOVATIONS 2005 DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SHOWCASE.