{"id":1330,"date":"2003-11-08T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T00:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2010-03-14T21:16:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:16:30","slug":"true-hd-panels-coming-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"True HD panels coming at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese computer peripheral maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benq.com.au\/\">BenQ<\/a> (formerly Acer Multimedia) has been seeking to get more into home entertainment equipment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/NewsShow\/Article.asp?datePublish=2003\/10\/30&amp;pages=A7&amp;seq=48\">Now it says<\/a> that it will be offering a true high definition (1,920 by 1,080 pixel) LCD panel in 2004, priced at 299,000 in Taiwanese dollars. This works out to less than $AUD13,000. This is promising.<\/p>\n<p>The main drawback of LCD panels, aside from their early pricing, is their relatively low contrast ratio. They just don&#8217;t do blacks as well as I&#8217;d like. Still, this ought to improve. The colour rendition, speed and viewing angle has improved amazingly lately, so I expect they&#8217;ll work on black levels as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese computer peripheral maker BenQ (formerly Acer Multimedia) has been seeking to get more into home entertainment equipment. Now it says that it will be offering a true high definition (1,920 by 1,080 pixel) LCD panel in 2004, priced at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}