Supposedly there’s going to be an oversupply of flat panels in the fourth quarter of this year, making your holiday shopping a little bit easier on the wallet. “iSuppli said already in the third quarter, production would outrun demand by 5 percent. “This glut is expected to cause pricing for LCD TVs and desktop PC monitor panels to decline in the coming months,” it said.”

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And Samsung is doing some interesting things with LCDs and PDPs (plasma display panels).

Samsung introduced a new type of LCD panel that can display a much better range of colours than LCD was previously capable of. “LCD panels using this high ‘color reviving’ CCFL have 92% of the color gamut specified by the NTSC(National Television System Committee) standard, while the previous LCD panels have only 72% of the color gamut for NTSC, and the PDP has 85%.”

Samsung is also working on PDP’s with a “micro lens film” that greatly reduces reflected light. This can only be a good thing. Of course, unless, it decreases the picture quality. But no mention was made of that, so don’t panic!

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