A REVOLUTIONARY display technology finally promises to make high-resolution,
widescreen televisions more affordable. The display, developed at Philips’s
research lab in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, uses a rotating prism to create a
large, full-colour image from a single, cheap liquid-crystal display chip.
The new screen costs about half as much as a conventional LCD or plasma
screen, and consumes much less power than a bulky cathode-ray tube.
Display designers have to find their way through a maze of compromises. The
size of CRT screens is limited by the weight of the glass needed to make sure
that the evacuated tube doesn’t…
