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Displays buying advice

Posted March 28, 2011 - 12:43 pm

Here's how to select the correct display for your needs.
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Add a second screen to your PC or laptop

Posted February 24, 2011 - 12:28 pm

Adding a second screen to your PC or laptop gives you more space to multitask: you can browse the web, check emails and complete work tasks, all while displaying your video or photo slideshows on a second screen.
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Samsung develops see-through screens to replace windows

Posted November 10, 2010 - 2:08 pm

Samsung Electronics has developed see-through flat-panel screens intended to be used as high-tech windows. They could overlay news or the time on office windows, or flash special offers on store windows while still allowing shoppers to see inside.
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Report: Apple scrambling for MacBook Air fix

Posted November 4, 2010 - 1:32 pm

Some of Apple's new 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks have been suffering from screen problems, including horizontal and vertical lines appearing across the screen, color changes, and blank and gray screen crashes. Others have reported odd kernel problems (essentially the Blue Screen of Death). So far the only Band-Aid for the screen defects is a CPU reboot.
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Reports: New MacBook Airs suffer screen problems

Posted November 3, 2010 - 9:42 am

It doesn't matter how gorgeous your laptop is if your screen blanks out. Has it happened to you?
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Basic video cabling for computer users

Posted May 26, 2010 - 5:07 pm

You've got stuff on a computer here, and you want it to appear on a display there. What's it take?
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Lamenting the Death of Features

Posted February 12, 2010 - 3:14 pm

We have all become accustomed to having new features added to our operating systems and applications: plug and play, USB support, browser extensions, docking station support, dual-head display settings. It's a nice feeling to play with new tools. Except, of course, when some of these features are removed in newer versions of the software.
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Mitsubishi wants to cover buildings, trains with OLEDs

Posted October 7, 2009 - 1:30 pm

Mitsubishi Electric hopes to soon see buildings, trains, and buses in Japan plastered with its flexible OLED displays.
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Review

6 HD displays, from midsize to massive

Posted June 12, 2009 - 2:19 pm

Until recently, the perceived wisdom about HD was that bigger was always better. We look at 6 HD displays, from 21.5 inches to 46 inches, to see whether size matters when looking for a great monitor.
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Bye-bye Kindle, e-reader screens coming for netbooks

Posted May 29, 2009 - 9:22 am

Netbook screens from Pixel Qi will be in devices by the end of this year.
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Seiko Epson works towards printable big-screen OLEDs

Posted May 26, 2009 - 11:00 am

Seiko Epson has made an advance in ink-jet technology that could be used to mass-produce large OLED (organic LED) screens by the middle of the next decade, making them more competitive with rival technologies for big-screen TVs.
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Plasma Sales Slip In Early 2009

Posted April 29, 2009 - 10:14 am

Sales of plasma display panels are slipping, some new research released Tuesday suggests. Plasma shipments fell a full 22 percent in the first quarter of 2009 compared with the same time last year, according to a report by tech analysis firm DisplaySearch. From quarter to quarter, demand for plasma displays dropped 28 percent.
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Nanotouch technology shrinks touchscreen displays

Posted April 7, 2009 - 1:53 pm

Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso Plattner Institut in Germany called Nanotouch allows a touchscreen device to be controlled from its backside, preventing fingers from occluding the screen.
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LG Display wins big LCD contract from Apple

Posted January 12, 2009 - 10:43 am

LG Display on Monday said it has signed a five-year deal to supply LCD panels to Apple.
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Sony unveils small, flexible OLED screen

Posted January 8, 2009 - 5:21 pm

Sony has brought to CES a flexible color OLED screen that could be seen in future, highly portable electronics devices.
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Jepsen works to raise laptop battery life to 20-40 hours

Posted November 26, 2008 - 10:29 am

Mary Lou Jepsen's Pixel Qi plans to start shipping low-power screens in the second half of next year.
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Flexible 125-inch plasma display coming in 2009

Posted October 30, 2008 - 11:30 am

A Japanese display start-up is well on the way to commercializing a 3-meter wide flexible plasma display and expects the first models to appear next year. (see video demo)
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NEC to debut latest e-paper displays

Posted October 27, 2008 - 11:11 am

NEC will later this week unveil new electronic paper displays that are said to offer higher visibility than newspapers.
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Quadruple your fun with a four-monitor system

Posted September 3, 2008 - 2:53 pm

Now here's an alternative to consider: Instead of one big screen, use four smaller ones. You can get four 19-inch wide-screen monitors for significantly less than $800 total. Add $300 for an extra graphics board and a desktop monitor stand, and the cost is still lower than that of one 30-inch display.
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Time to put off buying LCD TVs, displays

Posted August 8, 2008 - 9:54 am

The LCD panel industry is suffering from over supply and falling demand, and in this case, what's bad for Wall Street and stock prices is good for consumers.
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Build a three-screen workstation

Posted July 18, 2008 - 2:49 pm

Unlike buying a McMansion, boosting your on-screen real estate is more than an exercise in wasteful vanity -- it boosts productivity. I myself have three displays adorning my desktop. On the left: A 19-in. Dell CRT on which I keep open a minimum of a dozen Firefox tabs at any given time. In the middle: A 19-in. ViewSonic LCD on which I take notes and write articles in Word, read PDF and Excel attachments, and watch Windows Media files. On the right: The 15-in. LCD screen of my ThinkPad T42, on which I do e-mail and IM chat.
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