Samsung Electronics presented the world's largest liquid crystal display yesterday, all 82 inches of it.
As it was considered technologically impossible to make liquid crystal displays, or LCD panels, so large, Samsung's development is expected to fire up competition with plasma display panels, or PDPs, in the big-TV market.
"This development smashes generally accepted notions that LCDs could not match the large sizes of PDPs or projection-type screens," Samsung senior vice president Kim Sang-soo said. The high-definition thin film transistor liquid crystal display, or TFT-LCD, replaced a 65-inch display developed by the Japanese firm Sharp in October last year as the world's biggest.
Previously, Samsung's largest LCD panels were 57 inches, and LG Philips LCD has developed 55-inch LCDs. The 82-inch LCD was cut from a single 1,870mm (73.6 inches) x 2,200mm glass sheet, which can produce two panels. According to Mr. Kim, the company will be able to develop a 97-inch model soon using an entire glass sheet.
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