Samsung mass producing 22-inch transparent LCD, your desktop monitor seethes with jealousy

They said they would do it, and by golly it’s nearly here — Samsung just revealed that its assembly lines are starting to churn out see-thru computer screens that don’t require power-sucking backlights to function. Unfortunately, it looks like the amazing AMOLED variety is still on the drawing board, but ambient light-powered LCDs are on the way, with Samsung offering a 22-inch, 1680 x 1050 resolution panel with a 500:1 contrast ratio to begin with. Sammy suggests we’ll see it in HDMI and USB-compatible monitors and suspects it’ll be used by advertisers, corporations and higher education first — which suggests this display won’t come cheap — but we all know the true killer app will be a nice big frameless laptop screen . We’ll take two, please. PR after the break. Continue reading Samsung mass producing 22-inch transparent LCD, your desktop monitor seethes with jealousy Samsung mass producing 22-inch transparent LCD, your desktop monitor seethes with jealousy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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