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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by jjp on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:59AM (#10834871)
Can't much off the electronics be off-board? Given I could buy a Fire, Apple, Roku etc. I've always wondered whether there is a market for just a panel with a single HDMI input.
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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:08AM (#10834894)
Not sure if you can drive 4K and above with 3D with 1mm thick screen like LG showed. They've "cheated" on the demo's the screens were fed with through a flex connector and had only a few still images on them, even the LCD driver is something that would require a bigger package than what you can put on flex today, and those solid state components aren't flexible...

>I've always wondered whether there is a market for just a panel with a single HDMI input.

Checkout the Korean white label TV's and monitors Ebay they use LG and Samsung panels usually come with the most basic features (the vast majority of them don't have a tuner cheaper, and avoids hideous import taxes for most the world) but then again you get a 65" 4K TV for less than 2000$.... e.g. http://stores.ebay.com/Dream-Seller/UHD-3840-x-2160-/_i.html...

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by jacquesm on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:01AM (#10835081)
> They've "cheated" on the demo's the screens were fed with through a flex connector and had only a few still images on them

How is that cheating? Display technology goes through a bunch of stages before being ready for mass consumption and the first stage after getting 'off the drawing board' would be to feed it data and to see what it looks like with stills. Still images are much harder to get right than motion in display technology because you have just about forever to determine what it looks like. With moving images the eye is much more forgiving.

Display calibration is always done with stills.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:29AM (#10835210)
Hence the quotation marks "cheated" isn't in a bad way, just pointing that the driving part of the display isn't on a nice thin flex package, and we've yet to seen these displays produce high refresh rate images there's a reason why prototypes always show stills things go funky once you have to start turning 8 million odd pixels on and off....
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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by jacquesm on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:06AM (#10835386)
What about that pony?

Really, this is a huge step for display tech and it seems a bit much to demand systems integration at that same level right away as well. This is not a product, it's a technology demo.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @09:07AM (#10835664)
Which is exactly what I'm saying, were quite a few years away from this being really commercial judging by the current track record of display tech probably about 10 years until its some what widely available in fully integrated systems.
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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by xerography on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:33AM (#10835507)
Which pony?
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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by ksec on Monday January 04, 2016 @09:02AM (#10835642)
Exactly what i have in mind for a long time. The TV, should just be a Panel with one connection. The electronics will live in another box.
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