Zeon display filter ameliorates backlight bleed, improves LCD contrast and viewing angles

Is your LCD TV not fulfilling your primordial need for contrast, more contrast? If so, you could do worse than to check out these so-called polarizer plates from Zeon, which promise up to ten times better contrast ratios than current LCD tech. The Japanese company's latest wares are compatible with IPS panels (yay!) and it even has a version for OLEDs on tap, though we hardly think weak contrast is the problem with OLED displays right now. Still, the expansion of viewing angles is always welcome, so let's hope the projected mass production by the middle of this year materializes, so that we can all be talking about awesome new displays come CES 2011. Onwards and upwards. [Warning: source link requires paid subscription.]

[Brent1700 Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:25AM]

who cares? this dude HAS an apple tablet>>> twitter.com/jason

[Sor1 Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:38AM]

@Brent1700
Yes, i agree who cares?? -1

[n0ne Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:53AM]

@Brent1700

You fanboys are just a nuisance to society, go back to your Starbucks and there burnt coffee.

[Kennykenken Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:20AM]

@n0ne - Strange.... even their iced coffee tastes burnt.

[n0ne Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:30AM]

@Kennykenken

Do some research, you'll find out that Starbucks buys low quality beans, roasts them at a temperature that's to height so they roast faster. Which burns them. I dunno how anyone can drink that ass water.

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:30AM]

IPS has good viewing viewing angles as it is, however. Does it worth for PVA? A lot of nice TVs are PVA for the better blacks. And no love for the angle poor TNs that dominate our increasingly laptop-fied lives?

[grumbles Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:43AM]

This sounds a lot like the A-TW Polarizer that the now discontinued NEC 2490WUXi. Essentially what it did was get rid of off-angle glow commonly found on IPS panels.

[grumbles Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:44AM]

@grumbles

**That the 2490WUXi used to use.... Engadget won't let me delete or edit my comments, apparently :)

[shadowj0 Posted Jan 27th 2010 9:18AM]

@grumbles

I don't think you've been here long enough to know that Engadget does not permit this yet.

Welcome to Engadget. Again.

[Yankee Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:06AM]

This is off-topic, but does anyone know if they figured out how to make OLED screens that can last as long as LCDs?

[barkingghos Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:16AM]

@Yankee I've wondered about this for some time now. The lifetime that they are providing in any flat panel display technology is such that at the end of that time the light output is halved.

I do not know about others, nor you, but I can figure what a new display in my home would be expected to last as a primary display, and that is only about three years. So, if I use it for 12 hours per day, every day for three years we are talking about 13K hours.

From what I thought, I thought OLED was already in excess of this figure. Those needing 50K hours seems like they plan on keeping a display for a very long time, which is counter to the embracement of technological change.

[barkingghos Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:17AM]

@Yankee @Yankee I've wondered about this for some time now. The lifetime that they are providing in any flat panel display technology is such that at the end of that time the light output is halved.

I do not know about others, nor you, but I can figure what a new display in my home would be expected to last as a primary display, and that is only about three years. So, if I use it for 12 hours per day, every day for three years we are talking about 13K hours.

From what I thought, I thought OLED was already in excess of this figure. Those needing 50K hours seems like they plan on keeping a display for a very long time, which is counter to the embracement of technological change.

[Entourage Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:13AM]

Siege ZEON?

[journalismnazi Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:01AM]

Just get rid of the bezel already !

[derrty Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:09AM]

Zeon...do they build Zaku II?

[BladeSling Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:45AM]

Maybe if they stuck this in OLED tech it could become cheaper because they could find a slightly cheaper solution to make bigger screens while still being amazing...

[truelove79 Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:48PM]

Yes, you can employ all sorts of tricks and gadgets to try to make LCD look better (240Hz, polarization, dynamic backlighting, LED backlighting, etc. etc.) or you could just stick with plasma.

[SophT Posted Jan 28th 2010 12:55AM]

it's about time they started working on increasing the viewing angle. We've been stuck at 178 degrees for years. It's like the freaking stone age around here.