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Toshiba develops circular LCD screen |
Having square LCD monitors in the back of your vehicle’s headrests may soon be a thing of the past because Toshiba has figured out how to make a circular LCD screen. The electronics giant will unveil its no corner LCD screens next week in Yokohama at the FPD International 2007 convention. The screens use Toshiba’s proprietary low temperature poly silicon technology and allow for panel instrumentation to be circular too. Imagine having a built-in rear and side door views available on your car’s dashboard or an odometer whose background color you can change.
Toshiba can currently get these LCD screens down to 2.4-inches in diameter with a contrast ratio of 600:1 , 240 x 240 resolution and 250K of colors. We’re probably still a good couple of years away from seeing this technology trickle down to the everyday marketplace but we can start imagining now the fun it will be to watch widescreen movies on circular screens.
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well they won’t film movies in a circular format, which means you’d either have to crop the edges off, or shrink down the picture and leave giant areas completely black to fit it on a round screne.. i cant even think of how thats a good thing.
im sure there are some awesome applications, but watching movies is NOT one of them.
I wish I could find 4×4, 4.5×4.5 or 5×5 inch square aspect 1:1 LCD monitor, with a controller card for a reasonable price.
There are a few companies who will cut down a larger monitor, but they want $3,000 US Dollars apiece for cutting them. That is ridiculous. It is fortunate that the governments and the aircraft manufacturers are finally moving to the 4×3 aspect ratio screens, but there are quite a few people who would buy them for building flight simulators of fast jets. This is the one piece that no one can find for a reasonable price.
Someone, PLEASE start making them…..