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A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money. ',Senator Everett Dicksen (1896-1969)" - 1 "279"
HD arrives for virtually every home, finally
HIGH DEFINITION has now moved beyond TV onto movies with Blu-ray seemingly winning the disc game, and HD IPTV options appearing as well.
The HD TV sets now combine full HD resolution with 100 or 120Hz double scan, improved colour in sizes well above 40 inches, while even 24-inch and larger computer screens can handle all the content at full quality with the 1920x1200 or better resolution. On the content creation side, 1080p capable SDHC camcorders with true 1920x1080 resolution, yet skinny and lithe like the typical Far Eastern booth babes, are around as well.
What about the price, though? HD could also mean spending High Dosh on all this ware. This Computex, that wasn't the case anymore.
There was myriad LCD TV maker booths in Hall 3 here: most vendors willing to talk mentioned that, this summer, their selling price of a typical, say, 46-inch FullHD 1920x1080 TV set with the about 100/120Hz and 10-bit per colour processing is in the US$1,200 range. Not bad at all, especially for those nations whose currencies are gaining aganist Uncle Sam's. The brand new LED backlight LCD sets with the same size are some three times more expensive still, but the picture quality is superb.
What about the LCD monitors with that ideal 1920x1200 resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio for computer usage? Happy with 24 inches? OEM price is now around US$260 only! Well why not jump then to a 26-incher for just US$320 then, to get the 'bigger picture'.
Finally, the cameras: a few vendors displaying such stuff now have FullHD 1920x1080 SDHC cameras with 5 - 6X optical zoom at around US$ 250. Get yourself a 16GB SDHC card for a few quid more and, voila, you got a decent HD movie recording device that can keep several hours of the stuff on a single memory card.
These price reductions have brought HD to a level where (nearly) everyone can have it - to watch on TV and PC, record and create it, too. And, you can get that from almost all vendors showing that stuff, branded or not. Next step: making the QuadHD 4K content cheaply, anyone? µ
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"almost everyone can afford HD" is true only in developed countries,and when you add 10% from everywhere else you still have some 5 billions that can't
120 refresh cycles second is bit much, unless you are refreshing only half screen. NOT Progresive scan. YOU can See difference when half pixels are cold at all times, just change brightness to low level & whole thing rides like Flicka, from terribleness.

World just went thru 4 years of upgrading to end up in same crummy place, Must be jesuses' story, too.

Intentionally broken before it even got built. Dubba scan, come on. Dubba vision too or have eye removed?
Drashek
Hello,

Your article mentions the availability of 26" LCD monitors with 1920x1200 resolution for $320US OEM. I am unable to find any offered for anything NEAR $320US. 

Can you tell me who is offering these at $320?

Thank you
Deb
Unless US is 11 hrk (croatian kunas) I'm not having any 24" LCDs for 260$. Btw, USD/HRK is 1:4,3 and not 1:11.

I know it's OEM price, but I still don't see HD resolution being cheap around here. HD TVs are around 1600$, and you have to pay around 1000$ for cheapest HD cam (I'm not talking mini-DV as I'd buy only HDD or SD one, and HDD or SD cam+SD memory is not far away one from another).

All in all, I'd have to spend around 3800$ for LCD 24", LCD TV with full HD, and a camera that shoots in same resolution.
I currently sitting here watching 1080p on a 110" screen for £1000 and have been for a while!!! How i hear you ask! Mitsubishi HC4900 Projector. ANd it will go to 200"!!! Get that out of a TV for £1000! I dont think!