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Samsung SDI shows off 63-inch 4k x 2k plasma

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 30th 2008 at 11:47PM

There's a slight possibility that you haven't noticed, but Samsung SDI is on fire. Like, seriously burning down FPD International 2008. After treating onlookers to a flexible OLED, a 40-inch Full HD OLED display and an assortment of other eye-enticing panels, the outfit has one-upped itself once more with a 63-inch 4k x 2k plasma. Sure, actually finding 4k x 2k content will be a challenge, but who wouldn't want to be ready for the inevitable worldwide domination of Super Hi-Vision? Most of the other specs (contrast ratio, luminance, where it's being stored with loose security, etc.) were sadly absent, but with a native resolution like this, the rest takes a back seat anyway.

Samsung titillates with transparent and 0.05mm 'flapping' OLED panels

by Thomas Ricker, posted Oct 29th 2008 at 7:01AM

Samsung's all up in Sony's OLED space this morning at the FPD International 2008 show. They started by trotting out that 40-inch OLED TV again, with a Full HD resolution, 8.9-mm depth, and contrast ratio so high they just call it 1,000,000:1. Then they upped the ante while dialing down the dimensions to a 4-inch, ultra-thin 0.05-mm OLED (pictured above) with 480 x 272 pixel resolution, 100,000:1 contrast, 200cd/m2 brightness -- so thin that it was displayed flapping in the wind. Take that Sony and your 0.3-mm OLED chubster. Sammy then reached deep into its bag of tricks with a transparent AMOLED display (first hinted at around these parts in early 2006) with an appropriately clad model presumably meant to invoke your pubescent fantasies of x-ray vision. Or maybe that's just us. Click through to see what we mean.

[Via OLED-Display]

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FPD International: yeah, we're there with Samsung's 1-cm thin 40-inch LCD

by Thomas Ricker, posted Oct 24th 2007 at 2:50AM

See that? No, not the panel on the wall, the 1-cm thin 40-incher standing in profile. That's the new Samsung we told you about yesterday all unwrapped and on the floor live at the FPD (Flat Panel Display) International show in Japan. More good news: although yesterday's press shot featured a Photoshopped display, this functional prototype is flaunting a true video feed. So head on over to Engadget Japan who's doing it up live if you just can't wait for our English translation.

Samsung's 40-inch 1080p LCD TV panel -- just 0.39-inches thin

by Thomas Ricker, posted Oct 22nd 2007 at 3:56AM

With Sharp, Hitachi, and LG.Philips all announcing ultra-thin LCDs we were beginning to wonder, where's Samsung with their world's first / biggest / thinnest boasting? No more. Meet the 10-mm (0.39-inch) thin, 40-inch LED-backlit, Full HD LCD TV panel which covers 92% of the NTSC color gamut while consuming less than 90 watts of power. That profile easily bests the crazy thin measurements we've already seen. At the moment, however, no price or production run details are available. That could change on Wednesday when the panel goes on display at FPD International in Japan.