Toshiba Matsushita Display Announce World's Thinnest LCD

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Toshiba Matsushita Display Announce World's Thinnest LCD

Its not only the size that matters, its also the thickness

Toshiba and Matsushita came together back in 2001 to form a joint venture appropriately called Toshiba Matsushita Display. Since then the newly formed entity has worked to produce some innovative display products including the first 17-inch wide format OLED and the world's highest resolution 2.2-inch TFT-LCD and other advancements using Low Temperature Polysilicon.

The latest announcement by Toshiba Matsushita Display is the world's thinnest 12.1-inch LCD (English). The LCD panels are between 2.9mm and 4.5mm thick and weigh about 183g (about 6.46oz). The new thin LCD can display a resolution of 1280x800 in 16:10 format and has a brightness of 30 0cd/m2. The panel uses LED backlights instead of traditional CCFL tubes.

Toshiba Matsushita Display says these panels are already in the production stage but there has been no mention of it being used anywhere yet. It is safe to assume these displays will be used in notebooks due to the lightweight, low power consumption nature of the product.

Toshiba Corporation has its hands in many other technologies such as the desktop and notebook PC market as well as its recently launched HD-XA1 HD-DVD player. Matsushita, otherwise known in the States as Panasonic, has also had some interesting products lately, including DSLR cameras.

Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1764

Seems very nice, OLED and LCD combined displays... Wait till LED display panels become economically feasable

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2.2" - WOW! Wonder how long till then can achieve that thickness for LCDs with 55" screens and up.

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They probably can't. Air needs to pass... Circulation of air is important for those display to loose the heat produced by it's compontents. And they better not underestimate the thickness of wires! lol