Motorola Debuts Nano-Emissive Flat Screen

brain1 writes "PhysOrg is reporting that Motorola has developed a 5" flat-screen prototype display that uses carbon nanotubes. The display appears to promise lower costs for a full 40" HDTV screen bringing the price down to $400. The technology uses standard color TV phosphors, has a response time equaling CRTs', all in a package 1/8" thick. The display characteristics meet or exceed CRTs', such as fast response time, wide viewing angle, and wide operation temperature. All these are areas that LCDs are weak in. Is this the breakthrough we needed to finally make HDTV and flat-panel computer displays *really* affordable?"

"Affordable?"

[Pantero Blanco]

400 bucks buys a used car...I won't really consider these affordable until they're down to 200 or less.

Re:Very NICE press release!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well i looked at those screenshots and the quality doesn't seem any better than the screen i'm using now.

Re:Race yes, finish no.

[AVIDJockey]

They'll keep improving this stuff until we're all wearing XHDTV contacts or retinal implants or having our video directly beamed to the pleasure center ^W^W visual cortex.

Agreed. That's when a shift will be made to improve on mop and wetvac technology

Re:At $400 a pop...

[Just Some Guy]

However, I'd say for most people, its not worth paying $400 dollars for a TV of any size or picture quality.

You're on crack. I know a lot of people who've shelled out a lot more than that on smaller CRTs (I dropped $700+ on a Sony Wega a couple years ago).

Especially when you consider for all intensive purposes

<grammar>Not even for the more relaxed purposes!</grammar>

Re:At $400 a pop...

[JamesO]

....Near-infinite brightness....

Dammit, I'm going to need some new sunglasses...

"Infinite"?

[Hortensia Patel]

Near-infinite brightness [...] infinite sharpness?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:Very NICE press release!

[Jemima's Witness]

Yeah kinda like those old DVD comercials that were on VHS tapes.

Re:Color palatte?

[EpsCylonB]

Still digitally driven. Ok, uses phosphors, which in the old CRT's were fired from 'color guns'

Lol, reminds me of my physics teacher who told us about a student who answered a question about TV's work. Apparently you have different coloured electrons, red ones, green ones and blue ones.

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Re:Color palatte?

[Detritus]

Haven't you heard of quantum chromodynamics [wikipedia.org]? Electrons are white, so every color television set contains a particle disintegrator, designed to produce a constant supply of red, green and blue quarks.