Some market watchers believe self-emitting displays, such as OLED panels, will emerge as the next-generation flat panels of choice, said Mikio Katayama, president and COO of Sharp. But he questioned whether "self-emitting panel technology will really replace LCD TVs!

For the near future Sharp has developed a 1-inch thick LCD panel that it says will be integrated into mainstream displays produced at a 10th generation (10G) fab scheduled to go online in 2010.

To ensure design flexibility for the 52-inch prototype, Sharp developed a set of millimeter-wave transmitters and receivers for wireless transmission of full-high-definition image data in the HDMI format. The company's spec sheet for the panel suggests it achieves higher performance than existing displays. The contrast ratio is 100,000:1 in a dark room. Color reproduction is 150 percent of the NTSC color gamut. Motion picture response time is 4ms.

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