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Why is Sharp the LCD Technology Leader for Large Tvs and Information Displays?

Did you know that Sony is looking to buy the LCD panels for its large TVs and information displays from the Osaka LCD plant two-thirds owned by Sharp? (Read: Business Week article: “Sony and Sharp’s LCD Linkup”, 27 February 2008).

It Starts with the Most Advanced LCD Manufacturing Plant: Since developing the world’s first 14-inch color TFT LCD TV in 1988, Sharp has consistently led the industry leading edge LCD technology. Today Sharp’s Kameyama, Japan manufacturing facility is the most advanced LCD panel manufacturing facility in the world. The plant uses 8th –generation technology to produce glass substrates for LCD panels. The new Osaka plant, to be operational by 2010, will use 10th –generation technology to produce the world’s largest LCD panel sheets, measuring 2.8 meters by 3 meters in size where each sheet can produce six 60-inch sets or three 108-inch sets. The LCD panel produced with this technology will be the thinnest and lightest than any LCD panel produced to date.

The Highest Resolution and Industry Leading Picture Quality: The Sharp’s LCD Information Display, with full high definition 1920 x 1080 native resolutions and with flicker-free, full color (16.7 million) TFT active matrix LCDs, delivers dynamic visual impact to audiences with true life color reproduction and crisp text image on a large screen format. Sharp’s monitors offer extensive color adjustment capabilities including black level (brightness), contrast tint, white balance (RGB manual setting) and gamma value. The LCD technology achieves high brightness, high contrast ratio and wide 176 degree viewing angle for large format displays with response times of 6ms or less. And these monitors come with anti-glare and low-reflection properties enabling Sharp monitors to be placed in bright areas where other screens might appear washed out. These full high definition displays are a must for a variety of applications like Conference Room LCD White Boards, Digital Signage, Exhibitions, Education, CAD/CAM Designing, Medical Imaging, Simulation, Process Control, and Stock Exchanges applications. It is also finding increasing use in Video-conferencing to deliver true to life images along with the Dolby 5.1 channel sound.

New Features and Sizes that will WOW! You: Sharp’s monitors can be operated in landscape or portrait modes. Very few competitors provide this feature for large monitors. A Black TFT/Bright Pixel Elimination feature ensures that if a pixel in the LCD monitor fails, it is effectively invisible to the viewer. And Sharp’s 108” LCD monitors are the world’s largest commercially available LCD monitors. In addition to leading the movement toward larger screen sizes, Sharp has met the demand for superior image quality by achieving such “firsts” as a resolution that is four times higher than that of current HD (4096×2160), the world’s highest contrast ratio (1,000,000:1) and the ultimate in fast-motion image processing with 120Hz frame rate conversion and an incredible pixel response time of 4ms.

Operational Efficiency and Reliability that Saves Money:Large screen display customers are experiencing lower operational costs, increased efficiencies and high reliability with Sharp LCD monitors. Sharp closed-box fan-less design protects the screens from dust to maintain the life of the screen

For more information on Sharp’s LCD monitors, check out Sharp’s official LCD monitor site!

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Television – Understanding the Liquid Crystal Display Technology

The Televisions that use Liquid Crystal Display for an improved image quality are termed as the LCD Televisions. This is one of the latest inventions of technologies in TV and computer monitors. LCD televisions are easy on the eye and the intensity of strain to the eye balls is greatly reduced. Thus they make prolonged viewing much more comfortable and stress free. In common parlance it can be said that there is a liquid in the screen and we see the image on the liquid screen.

Broadly, this modern technology uses thin film transistors to monitor voltages to the individualized pixels. Here the transistors constantly regulate voltage to three liquid crystal sub pixels of red, green and blue, which in turn control light dispersion through the wafer thin panel. But to be precise, LCD technology is based on the utilization of specified polarized light.

In this mechanism the pixels are actually the segregation of thin liquid crystalline gels which get sandwiched by two polarized panels. The separated pixels then get activated with the activation and stimulation of X/Y grid, a bunch of wires connected to them. The amount of voltage applied to the X/Y grid is directly proportional to the darkening of the pixels which in turn get polarized at 90 degrees, and thus to obtain a brighter appearance relatively lower voltage should be applied to the pixels and similarly for dark shadow area the pixels get a higher voltage from the grid. Irrespective of the voltage fluctuation a constant flow of charge keeps on passing through the pixels even at the absolute dark LCD pixel.

The patterned vertical alignment or PVA and the super patterned vertical alignment or the SPVA technology is an added advantage of LCD televisions. The PVA and S-PVA offer a better and improved dark depth, and a wide viewing angles up to 178 degrees and S-PVA can offer additionally fast response times. An upgraded and dynamic contrast ratio or the ratios between brightest colors to that of the darkest shades are also proficiently delivered by the PVA and S-PVA LCD panels which offer a clear balanced and highly monitored display at any intensity of light at the surrounding. Thus each and every pixel emits consecutive lights to set intensity of the picture.

Today a number of companies are offering these manifold offerings with LCD technology and are marketing world wide. The prices vary with the manufacturer and so too the added features. Such as, Samsung is offering a high contrast ratio nearly 3000:1 with value-oriented PVA panels. Their S-PVA panels do not apply color simulation or replication methods instead they use true electronics of 8-bit colors. Another new company Eizo uses even 10-bit colors and upgraded S-PVA panels.

With these entire multiple and diverse benefits the most important caution against the usage of this liquid crystal display suggested by the authorities must be followed by the users. Such as, the liquid crystal inside the display are much toxic and can be fatal at times if it comes at a close contact with the skin or at any wounded area of the body part or even with the clothes. It must not be ingested either. In case of accident, if spills occur, the area should be cleaned with soap and water immediately. However, there is a very low risk of such an accident taking place and there is no need of panic. Only if someone is totally irresponsible will he tear open the screen and cause an accident!

It has been said that the improvement and advancement of LCD technology has increased the customer expectancy towards the quality resolution at a reasonable market price of this gadget and a minimal power consumption at the same time.

This article can also be accessed in portuguese language from the Article section of page www.polomercantil.com.br/televisores.php

Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for www.PoloMercantil.com.br

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The Technology in a LCD Monitor

Liquid Crystal display or LCD monitor is a thin and flat device for display. It is made by large number of color or monochromatic pixels which are arrayed in way of a light source or a reflector. It uses very small amount of electric power and hence is used often in battery powered electronic devices. The technology used is very much dissimilar to CRT technology which is used by many desktop monitors. It was used only on notebook computers for a very long time. Only recently they have been offered as an alternative to CRT monitors. They take up very less desk space and are much lighter than the CRT monitors. But they are also quite expensive.

Each pixel of LCD monitor display has a layer of aligned molecules between two electrodes which are transparent and two polarizing filters. Because there is no liquid crystal between the aligned polarizing filters, light which has passed through the first filter will be blocked by the second polarizer. The surface which is in contact with the crystal is treated to align it in particular direction. The direction of alignment is defined by direction of rubbing.

Resolution, in terms of horizontal and vertical size expressed in pixels, is native supported for the best display effects. This is one of the things that sets LCD monitor apart. Dot Pitch is defined as the distance between two adjacent pixels. It is the minimum for sharper image. Each pixel is divided into three cells, or sub pixels. These are colored red, green and blue. Each sub pixel can be controlled independently for millions of combinations and hence colors. Older CRT monitors use phosphors for sub pixel structure. The analog electron beam though does not hit the exact sub pixel.

Color components can be arrayed in various geometries, depending on how the monitor is to be used. If the software being used knows the geometry, it can be used to increase the apparent number of pixels using sub pixel rendering. This kind of technique is often used in text anti-aliasing. LCDs which are used in digital watches and calculators have separate contact for each segment. Thus an external dedicated circuit charges each segment individually. This is not possible if the number of elements increases.

Small monochrome displays like the ones used in Personal Organizers or in older laptops have passive matrix like structure and employ super twisted nematic or double layer STN technology. Here, each row or each column has a single electrical circuit and the pixels are hence addressed according to rows and columns. But as the number of pixels increases, the response time decreases and the technique no longer remains feasible.

Color displays used in modern LCD monitors and televisions use active matrix structure. An array of thin film transistors (TFT) is added. Each pixel has a dedicated transistor. Active Matrix display looks brighter and sharper than passive matrix display of similar size and has better response time.

LCD technology has some critical drawbacks too. Resolution of a CRT monitor can be changed without introduction of any new artifact. But LCDs can produce only their native resolution and non native resolutions are achieved by scaling. The blacks of LCDs are actually grey because of presence of a light source. This results in lower contrast ratio when compared to CRTs. LCDs with cheaper parts cannot display as many colors plasma or CRT counterparts.

Also, LCD display has longer response time when compared to Plasma or CRT counterparts. Input lag is also present and the viewing angle is limited. In spite of these drawbacks, LCD display is quickly gaining prominence.

This article can also be accessed in portuguese language from the Article section of page www.polomercantil.com.br/monitor-lcd.php

Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for www.PoloMercantil.com.br

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