Musings on LCDs

On a sunny day (Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:35:17 -0500) it happened Spehro Pefhany wrote in :

Where will OLED go?

I like my flat piece of LCD BTW.

If they can do that, it might go the other way with wrap-around screens to give a more immersive viewing experience.

One of the theories of Cinerama was that having a screen whose effective curvature was the same as the human eyeball gave additional depth perception and 3D effects.

As a kid, I went the Cinerama Dome (Hollywood) and a similar thing at Disneyland. It didn't impress me (as I recall).

Elvira, however, even on a flat screen, really caught my eye.

Bob

Almost right but I'd guess that the curve will instead be concave and wrap-around using, say, two walls and the included corner of a room for a seamless panorama. Paris Hilton will have the first one and it will cost a bit more than a new BMW but market pressure will bring the price down to around that of a used Chevy in a couple of years.

Its major competition will be the head-mounted units that use head position and iris angle tracking to scroll a pair of eyepiece displays for virtual 3D. The trick there will be the real-time rendering that adjusts the apparent depth of field to match the wearer's point of focus.

Cool stuff, someday... ;-)

Yeah, maybe a retro model of a 1960's era color TV tube. Including artificially injected tint and hue drift and all that :-)

In the corner of the living room you'll then find the retro MP3/CD/MiniDisk player that is able to inject the pop and crackle of ye olde 78 rpm records.

The lifesize cardboard cutout of her looked pretty good, too. It was a long forgotten beer ad that I got it from a drive through beer and soda place in SW Ohio, over 20 years ago. My sister was really pissed at me for giving it to my 12 year old nephew, when I moved south. ;)

The first movie I saw in Cinerama was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, originally shot for Cinerama theatres in a single-camera Ultra-Panavision process.

When Jimmy Durante's car came over the cliff, I ducked.

The first Cinerama movie I saw (and I think it was THE first made) was called "This is Cinerama" or something like that. It was a huge sales pitch movie full of roller coaster rides and other stuff designed to make you sick to your stomach. Did a pretty good job of it too! The big problem was that always noticeable, however, was that the three projected images always had a "seam" between them in spite of the mechanical "fuzzer" that was designed to blur them a bit. Another was that because there were three projectors they could only hold so much film and an intermission was necessary. Still pretty decent entertainment for the era!

Today Imax is sort of the current version with no seams, much better sound and less screen curvature. They've also been doing lots of 3-D lately but I haven't been very impressed with it. It always feels a bit "strained" to me. Still I love the Imax idea. Which is to take the highest quality photography available and use it to take you places the ordinary person will never get to go in person: Mount Everest, space, sea bottom etc. Love it.

Damn lucky kid! Tell your sister that it will eliminate the possibility of him turning gay.

Bob

That was 20 years ago, now, he's "Married, With Children ;-)

BTW, this looks similar to the one I gave him:

I made two trips to Florida in a Chevy stepvan, when I moved south. For the first trip, I had the Elvira cutout standing in front of the doors to the cargo area. You should have seen all the looks 'she' got, and all of the near wrecks. :)

That's because Elvira, even on a flat screen, has curves.

What got me was the way he just went flying right out there!

On a sunny day (Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:39:18 -0500) it happened Boris Mohar wrote in :

I do not think this is real ? ;-)

It supposedly has a protective panel made from sapphire, like the crystal on a decent watch.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

On a sunny day (Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:06:39 -0500) it happened Spehro Pefhany wrote in :

Oh I see.

I have a watch with a sapphire window that my father used top own. It is indeed a tough material. Not to long ago I wanted to purchase as sheet of sapphire make a protective window for my welding mask. The plastic ones scratch all too easy and scatter light. I called around and was quoted some astronomical price. Asus has found a better source.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things)

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

All I want is one that will roll up...