Samsung 82" LCD Display

[Star Alliance]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/08/samsung_lcd.jpg

Having shown off the world's largest plasma display panel late last year, Samsung this week claims the world's biggest LCD TV.

The monster display measures 82in (2.1m) in the diagonal, just short of the plasma panel's 102in (2.6m) size. It is designed for HDTV.

The screen will be the first to be offered by the S-LCD joint venture between Samsung and Sony. It was made at Samsung's Tangjeong, South Korea-based seventh-generation LCD fab, which goes into volume production through its single output line later this month. Samsung recently announced plans to open a second production line at the facility. Line two will begin mass production next year.

The fab will punch out 23, 26, 32, 40 and 46in panels for LCD TVs cut from 2.2m x 1.9m glass substrates. Samsung says it can get two 82in displays from one such substrate.

The 82in TFT LCD uses Samsung's patented Super Patterned-ITO Vertical Alignment (S-PVA) technology to achieve extra-wide viewing angles. It also boasts a low-dispersion colour filter and ultra high aperture ratio, achieving a contrast ratio of at least 1200:1 and brightness of 600cd/m². Response times are at 8ms or faster. Its backlight raises color saturation to 92 per cent.

Don't expect to be able to go out and buy one of these monster tellies - unless you have a very deep wallet. However, anyone attending the CeBIT show in Hanover later this week will be able to gawp in awe at its size.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/08/samsung_82in_lcd/

[fever]

Someone mentioned $80,000 as the price tag, but I can't confirm and this was a few weeks ago already.

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Isn't their ~50 inch plasma about $45,000?

[Anycall]

Someone mentioned $80,000 as the price tag, but I can't confirm and this was a few weeks ago already.

f

Isn't their ~50 inch plasma about $45,000?

woah....I don't think so.

Their 50" plasma's are 4,949.99.

http://www.circuitcity.com/IMAGE/product/enlarged/sam/EC.SAM.HPP5071.jpg

[mcurtiss1970]

but this is an LCD...they more expensive?

[Anycall]

Yes. LCD's are significantly more expensive.

[fever]

lol, I remember one of the first consumer plasma TV's available in the U.S. went for like $14,000, and I think it was in the ~45in. range, and it had that funky seperate receiver. Those were fun to look at... Now I find myself having conversations in my head about LCD vs. Plasma vs. DLP vs. Projectors...

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[640k]

I've noticed Sony has really taken a liking to Samsung LCD technology. The PSP will feature an LCD manuf. by Samsung.

I wonder if their 80" LCD will have any of the delay issues their DLP TVs do. Its a real shame. They have some of the clearest, brightest digital projection TVs on the market, but their processors suck.

[DigitalExciting]

Samsung and Sony made a tentative agreement to build a joint LCD facility in Korea.