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LG's 100-inch LCD set for mass production
Stop trying to type faster, watch TV for hours, or organize the largest water balloon fight: there's now another way to get a Guinness world record holder in your home, as LG has just announced it is going to begin mass producing its record-setting 100-inch LCD. The 6-million pixel 1,920 x 1,080 display won't come cheap though -- while a final price has not been decided, the manufacturing costs alone are expected to be over $150,000 US. But anyway, how can we be satisfied with a 100-inch LCD HDTV featuring a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 92% color gamut and 5ms refresh time when we know Mark Cuban is just going to come over and start bragging about his $70,000 103-inch 1080p plasma from Panasonic? While sneaking in and watching Oxygen Network until the logo burns in on his precious plasma would be nice, we'll probably just wait for the first price drop and save everyone some pain and suffering.
LG's 100-inch LCD makes a Guinness World Record
Did you know the Guinness World Record people are still around, counting and tallying obscure achievements? Apparently so and they felt the need to crown LG the top honor for "largest LCD TV" thanks to their 100-inch big boy. Oh man, 100-inches is a lot of LCD goodness with the screen measuring 6.6 feet across and 3.6 feet high with the ability to produce 1.07 billion colors. The closest other LCD TV measures in at a mere 82-inch coming from Samsung but we have a feeling that this award was bestowed a little to late. Well, the TV has been out since March 8th, and while it is the largest LCD TV currently made, technology leap frogs and CES is just right around the corner and one of the other major LCD supporters (Sharp, Sony, Samsung) will outsize LG's 100-inch by at least an inch or two. We can only image how hard it must be for the record people to keep up with these technical achievements. (biggest this, smallest that, fastest other-thing) Maybe the should keep to the more constant accomplishment of shooting milk out of your tear ducts.
Japanese hardware sales, 4 September - 10 September: Thick Irish accent edition
So, weh here a' the Fanboy decided ta' switch nationalities for a Wii bit. (I could na' resist the pun!) It seems that o'er in Japan, the DS Lite has taken a bit of ah slide. The only explanation weh can offer is that a giant shipment ah Guinness draft arrived a' the pubs, and people were just too busy drinkin' to spend money on such a fine system. The PSP sales, o' course, went up, as people needed more fancy coasters to set their drinks upon. - DS Lite: 113,831 115,108 (50.28%) - PSP: 29,141 1,642 (5.97%) - PS2: 19,882 2,821 (12.43%) - GBA SP: 2,104 647 (23.52%) - Game Boy Micro: 1,801 10 (0.56%) - Xbox 360: 1,094 156 (12.48%) - DS Phat: 1,058 738 (230.63%) - Gamecube: 696 159 (18.60%) - GBA: 13 9 (40.91%) - Xbox: 5 5 (infinite%) - Wii: 0 0 (0%) Fellow blogger Ludwig, over a' Joystiq, decided ta' include the Wii in the sales charts for this one week, and since weh pretty much try ta' emulate his every whimsical notion are the Wii Fanboy, after oll, weh decided ta' do so as well.[Source: Media Create]
