I think the proof will be in seeing it, but as someone else pointed out, it's not pixel smear during fast motion that seems to be the biggest problem with LCD's it's the lack of 'black' caused by light bleeding through pixels that are supposedly completely off. This reduces the contrast ratio noticeably and also interferes with low level light perception. Very dark images are much harder to make out on an LCD than on a crt because of that.
I'm not even gonna comment on what technology they are going to use for the light but I do have this to say : if it's LED I expect that the 'white' won't be a very good white.
I don't like the 'white' that current 'white' LEDS make. It seems very cold and lacking in warmth to me. Maybe they should try tacking TWO lcd's in front of each other to increase the black level instead.
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I think the proof will be in seeing it, but as someone else pointed out, it's not pixel smear during fast motion that seems to be the biggest problem with LCD's it's the lack of 'black' caused by light bleeding through pixels that are supposedly completely off. This reduces the contrast ratio noticeably and also interferes with low level light perception. Very dark images are much harder to make out on an LCD than on a crt because of that.
I'm not even gonna comment on what technology they are going to use for the light but I do have this to say : if it's LED I expect that the 'white' won't be a very good white.
I don't like the 'white' that current 'white' LEDS make. It seems very cold and lacking in warmth to me. Maybe they should try tacking TWO lcd's in front of each other to increase the black level instead.