CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept
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Anorexic Displays At a certain point, it doesn't really matter how thin a TV is, because you're watching the front of it, not checking out the side of it, especially if it's already hung on the wall. But the idea of ever-thinner displays still intrigues us, though I won't really be excited until the day you could just stick a self-adhesive TV on the wall. Nonetheless, the waif-ish trend in display design continues, with Sharp unveiling its Aquos X-series LCD TVs with bezels a mere 22.8mm thick, Hitachi showing off 35mm plasmas and 15mm LCDs, and Sony topping them both with an 11.1-inch OLED display that's a mere 0.3mm thick.
3D: Yesterday's Tomorrow Technology Today I had to suffer through that Miley Cyrus concert movie filmed in 3D (a sacrifice nobody warned me about before I became a parent), and I still can't believe that 3D is becoming a hot trend again. And yet, everyone's working on the ultimate way to display that elusive third dimension. Panasonic demoed 1080p HD content that used modified monitors to create the illusion of depth, but that requires special glasses (which always doomed 3D), whereas JVC previewed a giant (72-inch) 1080p prototype display that simulates 3D without the need for extra eyeware. In case you missed those awkward spectacles, JVC also showed off a new set of glasses that convert 2D video into 3D.
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