Hitachi to show off 1.5-inch thick plasma, .75-inch thick LCD prototypes at CES

Slimming down LCDs just wasn't enough, Hitachi will demo a 1.5-inch thick plasma HDTV at CES. Cutting more than a third of the thickness from previous displays, it ensures your screen will look as incredible from the side as it does the front. Also on display, but without concrete plans for release, are the "super" Ultra Thin LCD that's just .75-inches thick, a search technology for visual images, TV video sharing over the internet without a PC, a wireless video gateway and a prototype IPTV interface. Looking from the near future to the slightly further-off future, we'll get a look at it in Vegas. Check out a side profile of the skinny plasma after the break.

[Senor_Tom @ Jan 4th 2008 7:19PM]

Now, Microsoft, that...has the WOW factor.

[DespoticWolf @ Jan 4th 2008 9:04PM]

true that

[Will @ Jan 4th 2008 7:46PM]

"Its wafer thin!"

[ScareyJ @ Jan 5th 2008 12:38AM]

D@MN, it likes looking at a runway model from the side ... it almost disappears!

[Will @ Jan 5th 2008 12:55AM]

How is that replying to my comment at all?

[scott @ Jan 4th 2008 7:49PM]

is nice =D

[noxious @ Jan 4th 2008 8:20PM]

I bet the kids at Best Buy are glad these will start rollin' out so they wont have to break there backs moving them around.

[abiade @ Jan 4th 2008 8:31PM]

The review did not mention the sizes that will be to market first?
What sizes are in the works including resolution (should be absolutely HDTV however)...
Inputs - displayport, hdmi, dvi etc?

[LegendaryPro24 @ Jan 4th 2008 9:05PM]

Nice.

[Anton @ Jan 4th 2008 9:19PM]

Sexy

[Andir3.0 @ Jan 4th 2008 9:54PM]

Maybe it's just me, but isn't it weird to use a image with a woman trying to enhance her eyelashes (supposedly to make them longer and thicker) on a TV that is supposed to seem thinner?

Or am I seeing this wrong and she's applying makeup with a brush. I can't tell from the angle. ;P

[Davis Collins @ Jan 4th 2008 10:56PM]

That right there, is called thinking too hard.

[Andir3.0 @ Jan 5th 2008 7:43AM]

I do my best. =)

[bob sakamano @ Jan 5th 2008 2:48AM]

i thought plasma was already obsolete?

[stoner @ Jan 5th 2008 8:23AM]

due to the recent advances in plasma picture quality, as show by the Pioneer Elite KURO 60" Plasma. It's picture quality is amazing, and the blacks are truly black, not an off grey. Is handsdown the best plasma TV and potentially is better than a Sony Bravia LCD screen

[Jeff @ Jan 5th 2008 9:17AM]

The TV is cool and all, but I'd just like to say, if your apartment looks like the one in that picture, you have severe emotional deficiencies.

[ljw @ Jan 6th 2008 10:12PM]

漂亮啊，钱 钱 钱 赚钱哪

[Perrey Z. @ Jan 7th 2008 10:48AM]

Woo Hoo for WOOO! What sizes will the PDPs be available? although I HATE the stand I look forward to these. See kids, anorexic can be sexy too in a digital way.


Please, G*d make sure these folks make them in 55" and 60" Ultravision Cineform for the U.S.