Sony has awed audiences at CES 2012 with what it is calling its "Crystal LED Display". The technology for the display is new to the consumer market, but it has been around for some time in the electronic billboard and sign market.
The "Crystal LED Display" is a 55-inch, Full-HD self-emitting display that uses Sony's methods to mount ultrafine LEDs in each of the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) colors, equivalent to the number of pixels ( about 2 million RGB LEDs or approximately six-million LEDs). The RGB LEDs are mounted directly on the display. Sony says that this results in images with strikingly higher contrast (in both light and dark environments), wider color gamut, superb video image response time, and wider viewing angles when compared to existing LCD and plasma displays, with low power consumption.
Sony boasts that compared to existing LCD displays, the 55-inch prototype exhibited at CES has approximately 3.5 times higher contrast in light environment, approximately 1.4 times wider color gamut, and approximately 10 times faster video image response time (all values based on current Sony models). Sony says it envisages a wide range of applications for its "Crystal LED Display", ranging from professional to consumer use. Parallel to its continued development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, Sony will work conscientiously to bring the "Crystal LED Display" to market.
The TV consumes about 70W of electricity and has a brightness of about 400 cd/ m2. The full HD resolution is 1,920 x 1,080. It reportedly has an almost 180 degree viewing angle. Interestingly, Sony claims that its contrast in a dark environment is more than measurable limit values.
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