I hope they implement this in the full, Brightside manner. For those not in the know, a Canadian company/research group called Brightside developed the locally-dimming LED backlight, HDR LCD technology. Dolby bought the rights to it.
I think Brightside's 37" prototype used 1400 individually modulated LED's in the back light. The first product to market using any part of this tech was Samsung's 81 series LCD panels...but they only used 70 IMLED's, so the effect was a bit disappointing as I've heard.
Yep, the Brightside technology is absolutely phenominal. Samsung's implementation of local dimming was an attempt to stir the waters I suppose--those 81 series sets were expensive and they wanted to gauge consumer interest/response.
SIM2 is a high end manufacturer so I wouldn't expect to see a reasonably priced (read: mass market) set this year.
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I hope they implement this in the full, Brightside manner. For those not in the know, a Canadian company/research group called Brightside developed the locally-dimming LED backlight, HDR LCD technology. Dolby bought the rights to it.
I think Brightside's 37" prototype used 1400 individually modulated LED's in the back light. The first product to market using any part of this tech was Samsung's 81 series LCD panels...but they only used 70 IMLED's, so the effect was a bit disappointing as I've heard.
Anyway, more explanation of Brightside's tech here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brightside_hdr_edr/1
The Dolby Buy-out here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/02/27/dolby_buys_brightside_technologies_hdr_lcd/1
Hopefully an actual product by the end of 08.
Yep, the Brightside technology is absolutely phenominal. Samsung's implementation of local dimming was an attempt to stir the waters I suppose--those 81 series sets were expensive and they wanted to gauge consumer interest/response.
SIM2 is a high end manufacturer so I wouldn't expect to see a reasonably priced (read: mass market) set this year.