New LCD Technology Outperforms CRT

This news is outstanding! I have been waiting for this to happen and happen in such a way that it actually affects the typical user. Hooray for LCDs!

LCD panels have traditionally been lagging behind CRT monitors in terms of color response, saturation, accuracy and overall black-level response. Because LCDs are “always lit” by a backlight, deep dark blacks have been the Achilles heel of LCD technology. However, a company named eCinema Systems has announced a new LCD technology that it claims surpasses CRT in virtually every respect.

eCinema’s new LCD technology is being called high dynamic range LCD, and also supports “deep color”, which is higher than 24-bit color, starting at 30-bit or 36-bit and can go up to 48-bit. The new panels are able to display 36-bit color (12-bits per color channel), and 1000 to 4000 step gray-scales, producing fantastic gradients. Most LCDs today produce only 256 gray steps at most. This new “deep color” technology will be standard with the new HDMI 1.3 specification. What’s most spectacular about eCinema’s LCD display however, is its contrast ratio: 30,000:1. At this rating, eCinema’s new DCM40HDR panel can achieve black levels that even CRTs cannot match. eCinema CEO Martin Euredjian said…. Source: DailyTech