HDTV and Moore's Law Meet?

Forbes is carrying a piece about LCoS being the display tech to watch. They make salient points about electromechanical tech like DLP being unable to shrink to the sizes expected in forthcoming Liquid Crystal On Silicon because of their moving parts and lack of transistor density.

Here's why.
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Since the backplane is actually a silicon chip, there is some benefit to using smaller geometry. It is possible to integrate all of the drive circuits and almost all of the circuitry needed to connect the chip to the outside world, including the decoders and interface, and still have plenty of room for the reflective imaging elements. An LCOS chip is essentially similar to a memory chip with the addition of a mirror layer. The mirror is also one of the electrodes connected to the output of a transistor so that when the video signal comes in, it gets translated to a voltage that is then used to rotate the liquid-crystal molecules. <<snip>>

It is is a reasonable argument for applying Moore's Law to LCoS Display tech (something that one wouldn't think would apply to displays--as the sheer density of transistors doesn't improve screen resolution on a 17" versus 40" for LCD/DLP, et al.

It is also fair to think that TRUE 1080p would quickly surpass the current gen of (hacked into place) Wobbulation 1080p DLP if the prices and the picture were as good or better.

We all want plenty of display options in the marketplace--as it would continue to drive competition for better and cheaper and AWESOME displays for just about any use.

So, in that regard... Go LCoS. Luck to you, Brillian, Hitachi, JVC (called D-ILA,)  Sony (called SXRD,) SpatialLight, and Kopin.

Please compete and hit the street with prices 'n resolutions can't be beat. [That sucked. Excuse the rhyme.]

Comments

[Erik]

The next Hdtv display generation is OLED technology! More about at http://www.oled-display.net or http://www.oled.at