5 inch, 444 ppi displays to appear in the second half 2012

[HansTWN]

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/27/l...ve-inch-1080p/

Now that is progress.

[carpetmojo]

But it ain't flexy...... at least not that one.

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

But it ain't flexy...... at least not that one.

They will sell the screen to other device makers, I think.

[elemenoP]

I dunno. I am REALLY fussy about displays, and I think the iPhone display is excellent. I don't think my eyes could tell the difference between that and a higher density display.

eP

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

I dunno. I am REALLY fussy about displays, and I think the iPhone display is excellent. I don't think my eyes could tell the difference between that and a higher density display.

eP

You could tell the difference with a magnifying glass.

[frostschutz]

awww no eink

[LovesMacs]

Better than a 444 inch 5 ppi display.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by LovesMacs

Better than a 444 inch 5 ppi display.

That depends on whether you want to view it from 1 foot away or 90 feet away!

[SeaKing]

I think it all sounds very very good.
The retina displays supposedly are good enough that you can't see the pixels. When I was a kid, I had vision of 20/5 and 20/10 on different tests and at the same time I could see the eyes of tiny bugs about 1" away.

CORRECTION!
Above should have been 20/15 and 20/10. I remembered wrong.

Of course lot of water (literally, and figuratively) has passed under the bow these days, and I notice if I read a lot, that I need about a 1 diopter correction to get that perfectly clear and sharp picture up close but still the more detail the better.

I want to see the total effect. The sharpness, the color, the wide angles. We are getting to the point where we can demand PERFECTION in our displays.

I love my lady's new laptop. It is an amazing machine except for the display. You have to be at a pretty sharp angle of 90 degrees + or - maybe 15 degrees to see it well. It is hard for two people to sit at it and both get a good view at the same time. Next time, I will get one with a wider angle display.

[JSWolf]

LG has a poor track record when it comes to screens. They made eink screens that faded in the sunlight, the flexible hi-res screens they can't make yet reliably enough. So what's going to be the issue with this new 5" color screen?

[RainingLemur]

Get some eink going with that, and I'd be more excited. That said, I would still like to see something like that make it to a solid quality handset.

[Barty]

I think ppi will be like megapixel on cameras. At some point, it'll be just overkill. Worse, focus on this one spec allows mgfrs to neglect on improving other equally important ones, like color accuracy, color gamut coverage, black levels, etc. simply because it's easier to explain and market.

[plib]

Originally Posted by Barty

I think ppi will be like megapixel on cameras. At some point, it'll be just overkill. Worse, focus on this one spec allows mgfrs to neglect on improving other equally important ones, like color accuracy, color gamut coverage, black levels, etc. simply because it's easier to explain and market.

Valid concern. On little point and shoots with sensors the size of a pinhead more megapixels can actually degrade the quality of the photograph, doesn't stop them doing it and trumpeting it though, because it's simple one-line advertising copy.

[teh603]

Originally Posted by Barty

I think ppi will be like megapixel on cameras. At some point, it'll be just overkill. Worse, focus on this one spec allows mgfrs to neglect on improving other equally important ones, like color accuracy, color gamut coverage, black levels, etc. simply because it's easier to explain and market.

Or what I've been running into with Linux on a 120-DPI laptop screen- software designers who think that the screen DPI is fixed at 96 and have important buttons and controls that are based on a number of pixels of width instead of a percentage of the screen or window.

So when you get that new 444-DPI screen, you suddenly discover that everything is a quarter of the size you expected, but since its capacitive you're still restricted to about a half- inch square worth of accuracy.

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by Barty

I think ppi will be like megapixel on cameras. At some point, it'll be just overkill. Worse, focus on this one spec allows mgfrs to neglect on improving other equally important ones, like color accuracy, color gamut coverage, black levels, etc. simply because it's easier to explain and market.

And we are not there yet. The human eye has a resolution of 530 ppi.