Samsung's 40-inch TFT-LCD is Just One Centimeter Thick

AddyDugdale — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:10:56 EDT

Samsung is to unveil a bunch of new screens in Japan at the end of this week, including the 40-inch beauty you see here, with a thickness of just 1 cm. The first of the Korean electronics giant's next wave of large-screen TVs, the 40-incher is as thick as a 10- to 20-inch LCD desktop monitor, and has a bezel of just 14.6 mm, reduced from 30 mm. LED backlighting reduces power consumption to around 90 watts. Another pic, and info on what to keep your eyes peeled for in Yokohama this week below.

15.4" LCD with active white-LED backlight.
22" desktop LCD with DisplayPort interface
46" digital information display (1500nits)
7" mobile display with touch screen
2.1" LCD with sensor-based automatic brightness control
14.3" plastic display
8.1"e-paper
14.1"active-matrix OLED. [via Press Release]

Bigger LCD TVs Take Lead

tgrumet — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:10:27 EST

It's taken a while, but it looks like 40-inch LCD TVs are now the fastest and largest-growing trend in the market (at least in Korea). With a drastic price cut in LCD larger screen prices just this month (by 12-20 percent), we can expect to see a lot more of these products in the market next year.

Sales of Samsung's LCD TVs rose by 417.8 percent compared to a year ago. Among them, sales of 42-inch LCD TVs soared by a whopping 1,188 percent.

Now if we can just get them up to 60 inches, LCD can really give plasma a run for its money.

Sales of 40-inch LCD TVs grow explosively [Korea Herald]

Specs and pricing on 40" LCD TVs [Amazon]

Gizmodo: 40-inch

Samsung's 40-inch TFT-LCD is Just One Centimeter Thick

Bigger LCD TVs Take Lead