TCL Multimedia Borrows Money for LED

TV Project
HUIZHOU, Jul 22, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) --

Not only TCL Corporation (SZSE: 000100), but also TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings
Ltd. (SEHK: 1070) is suffering from capital shortages. TCL Multimedia announces that a credit
financing agreement has been inked with Bank of China Limited (BOC, SEHK: 3988 and SHSE:
601988) and Standard Chartered Bank to obtain from the latter a four-year loan worth up to USD
120 million.

The first phase will reach USD 80 million, which will be used to make up the working capitals of
TCL Multimedia, disclosed a top executive of the company in charge of securities affairs, adding
that TCL needs more working capitals since it will enlarge its inputs in the LED TV field in the
second half of 2010.

Earlier, TCL Multimedia issued an announcement on July 15 predicting loss for the first half
year, saying that the growth of the Chinese TV market is worse than expectations and the
company is selling out stockpiles.

The stockpiles include complete TVs as well as LCD panels, which have consumed working
capitals of TCL Multimedia and will affect the company's operation if no more capitals are
financed, pointed out an insider familiar with TCL Multimedia.

However, the aforesaid top executive denies that the company is suffering from capital
shortages, saying that the financing is only carried out to enrich its working capitals.

Source: dycj.ynet.com (July 22, 2010)

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TV Using the 3D Function.

3D Viewing Conditions

 To watch in 3D mode, you need to put the 3D Active Glasses on and press the power button on
top of the glasses. Fluorescent lighting may cause a flickering effect and direct sunlight may
affect the operation of the 3D glasses. Turn off all fluorescent lighting and block sources of direct
sunlight before watching in 3D mode.

Photosensitive Seizure Warning and Other Health Risks

  Some viewers may experience an epileptic seizure or stroke when exposed to certain flashing
images or lights contained in certain television pictures or video games. If you or any of your
family has a history of epilepsy or stroke, please consult with a medical specialist before using
the 3D function.
 If you experience any of the following symptoms, immediately stop watching 3D pictures and
consult a medical specialist: (1) altered vision; (2) lightheadedness; (3) dizziness; (4) involuntary
movements such as eye or muscle twitching; (5) confusion; (6) nausea; (7) loss of awareness; (8)
convulsions; (9) cramps; and/or (10) disorientation. Parents should monitor and ask their
children about the above symptoms as children and teenagers may be more likely to experience
these symptoms than adults.
 Viewing in 3D mode may also cause motion sickness, perceptual after effects, disorientation, eye
strain, and decreased postural stability. It is recommended that users take frequent breaks to
lessen the likelihood of these effects. If you have any of the above symptoms, immediately
discontinue use of this device and do not resume until the symptoms have subsided.
 We do not recommend watching 3D if you are in bad physical condition, need sleep or have
been drinking alcohol.
 Watching TV while sitting too close to the screen for an extended period of time may damage
your eyesight. The ideal viewing distance should be at least three times the height of the TV
screen. It is recommended that the viewer's eyes are level with the screen.
 Watching TV while wearing 3D Active Glasses for an extended period of time may cause
headaches or fatigue. If you experience a headache, fatigue or dizziness, stop watching TV and
rest.
 Do not use the 3D Active Glasses for any purpose other than viewing 3D television. Wearing the
3D Active Glasses for any other purpose (as general spectacles, sunglasses, protective goggles,
etc.) may physically harm you or weaken your eyesight.
 Viewing in 3D mode may cause disorientation for some viewers. DO NOT place your television
near open stairwells, cables, balconies or other objects that may cause you to injure yourself.

Disadvantages

 Some Fluorescent lamps can be more efficient.

 High initial price: LEDs are currently more expensive, price per lumen, on an initial capital cost
basis, than most conventional lighting technologies. The additional expense partially stems from
the relatively low lumen output and the drive circuitry and power supplies needed.
 Temperature dependence: LED performance largely depends on the ambient temperature of
the operating environment. Over-driving the LED in high ambient temperatures may result in
overheating of the LED package, eventually leading to device failure. Adequate heat-sinking is
required to maintain long life. This is especially important when considering automotive,
medical, and military applications where the device must operate over a large range of
temperatures, and is required to have a low failure rate.
 Voltage sensitivity: LEDs must be supplied with the voltage above the threshold and a current
below the rating. This can involve series resistors or current-regulated power supplies. [80]
 Area light source: LEDs do not approximate a “point source” of light, but rather a lambertian
distribution. So LEDs are difficult to use in applications requiring a spherical light field. LEDs are
not capable of providing divergence below a few degrees. This is contrasted with lasers, which
can produce beams with divergences of 0.2 degrees or less. [82]
  Blue hazard: There is a concern that blue LEDs and cool-white LEDs are now capable of
exceeding safe limits of the so-called blue-light hazard as defined in eye safety specifications
such as ANSI/IESNA RP-27.1-05: Recommended Practice for Photobiological Safety for Lamp and
Lamp Systems.[83][84]
 Blue pollution: Because cool-white LEDs (i.e., LEDs with high color temperature) emit
proportionally more blue light than conventional outdoor light sources such as high-pressure
sodium lamps, the strong wavelength dependence of Rayleigh scattering means that cool-white
LEDs can cause more light pollution than other light sources. The International Dark-Sky
Association discourages the use of white light sources with correlated color temperature above
3,000 K.[citation needed]

Advantage

LED TV’s are the latest innovation to hit the consumer electronics market, providing some really
promising developments for the television industry that will significantly affect the way tv’s are
considered and purchased for years to come.

LED backlights are now used in a range of displays, including billboards, monitors, industrial
equipment and portable devices. Their low power consumption is particularly suited to battery
powered displays, allowing significantly longer usage from one charge.

The key difference between LCD and LED displays is the backlight structure. While an LCD
uses a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) as a light source, an LED uses light emitting diodes
(LED’s), which are more power efficient and more capable at delivering a realistic graphic
display.

Despite their lower power consumption, LED displays also tend to be brighter and many have
non-reflective screens, making them particularly good in rooms with plenty of direct sunlight as
the image stands out better.

The most obvious advantage of an LED television is the size – they’re considerably thinner and
much lighter, making them easier to wall mount and more attractive as wall features as they
don’t protrude from the wall.

The thinness of LED panels is due to the way the light bulbs are placed around the screen, either
behind it, known as backlit, or around the edges, known as edge-lit. Edge-lit screens are the
thinner of the two and as they contain fewer diodes, they tend to be less expensive. However,
backlit versions can create deeper blacks using a technique known as ‘local dimming’, where
bulbs are shut off, preventing unwanted light shining through.

LED screens also show a great range of colors as the diodes that provide the light vary in the
three primary colors, red, green and blue. This makes for deeper and richer color combinations, a
wider colour spectrum and a better contrast ratio.

Light emitting diodes are also very robust, and have been quoted as lasting over 50,000 hours
without any degradation in quality – that’s 5 years of constant tv watching! The screens
themselves are also better for the environment as they don’t contain mercury and are easier to
recycle than their LCD counterparts.

However, LED displays can suffer in the viewing angle area, and often lose colour and black
levels when viewing at acute angles over 30 degrees. However, this issue is being addressed by
the manufacturers and many are using in-plane switching panels, so keep an eye out for those
when choosing your display.

Naturally all these advantages aren’t free and LED televisions tend to be more expensive than
others. But with all these great features, their lower power consumption and smaller physical
size, it’s no wonder that the future of tv’s looks to be LED. Prices can only go down, so get
yourself to a retailer and give them a look.

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new tv. For more information on the new Samsung Series 8 LED’s, visit LED TV.

The benefits of LED TVs

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By tyrrell123

The world is becoming increasingly technology integrated and we are seeing computing power
being integrated into every-day appliances and objects. The world of television and displays is
no different. Because of the mass global market it incorporates this has to be one of the fastest
evolving markets. Less than a decade ago high definition television was a new foreign
technology that was beginning its meteoric growth. However, now a quarter of all US
households have a Full HD TV.

The competition amongst television manufacturers is intensely fast paced. With the innovation of
new technological advancements comes a competitive edge that drives profits. One of the latest
technologies that have come on the scene is the ‘LED TV’ from Samsung. What is it that makes
this breed of television different from the LCD TVs that we have seen over the last decade, is it
just advertising hype or a technological revolution?  

The difference with this new type of television is with the method of lighting that it uses to light
the screen. LEDs (light emitting diodes) are what are used to light the display. There are inherent
properties that give LEDs benefits when compared with CCFLs (cold cathode fluorescent lamps)
which have been previously used in LCD displays up to this point. Firstly LEDs are more energy
efficient and use less power to produce light. They can also produce brighter light and a fuller
spectrum of white light. They also have reliability benefits too as their performance does not
degrade like fluorescent lamps does and they have a longer lifespan. LEDs are physically more
compact than fluorescent lamps leading to design benefits.

Essentially an LED TV is just an ‘LED-lit’ LCD TV which may seem a bit misleading to label it
as this. But because of the benefits incorporating LED lighting into the design of televisions
rather than fluorescent lamps, there are some very real benefits to be had.

The colour reproduction of LED TVs is said to be improved because of the quality of light that
LEDs produce, this leads to more natural and vivid on-screen images. Also it is worth pointing
out that many LEDs are used to light the display and each LED can be individually controlled.
The significance of this is that areas of blackness were previously difficult to produce with
fluorescent lamps, but because individual LEDS or areas of LEDs can be turned off, this has
vastly improved the reproduction of blacks. Coupled with the brightness of light that can be
achieved with LEDs the contrast ratios have been massive improved.

If you think the fact that LEDs use less power is insignificant then maybe you reconsider this
fact. As power consumption is improved by up to 40% and considering the usage that an average
television gets over its lifetime this could add up to a considerable saving to you electricity bill
(as well as being comforting that it does its bit in helping the environment by ultimately reducing
CO2 emissions). Another financial advantage is that because LEDs are more reliable than
fluorescent lamps, the lifetime of an LED TV is increased.  

So if you are in the market for buying a new television surly LED TVs come into consideration.
They may not be a radical advance in technology but there are certainly many benefits to be had.

The LED TVs use less energy than their traditional counterpart, and produce far less heat. I have left an
edge-lit LED TV on all day, with little to no heat emanating from the set and it was cool to the
touch. Heat is the enemy of all electronics; the cooler the better. This information scratches the surface
regarding LED and traditional LCD Televisions. When it comes to electronics, baby steps is the best path
to making the proper purchasing decision, ultimately saving you time and possible hundreds of dollars.

DDDDDD

By Jon Stokes | 08.26.09

For the seven decades following the debut of television at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the
term "cathode ray tube" (CRT) was virtually synonymous with "display." Shortly after the turn
of the millennium, liquid crystal display (LCD) technology began to replace the venerable CRT
in desktop-computer applications, and by the middle of the decade LCD was rapidly squeezing
the CRT out the television market that the latter had invented. Just two years ago, it seemed
obvious that the display space was in the final stages of a relatively straightforward evolutionary
shift, with LCD replacing the CRT in the same way that the gas-powered automobile had
replaced the horse and buggy.
Or so it seemed, then.

In 2009, it turns out that the future of display technology is decidedly more complex than a
simple evolutionary advance from one technology to another, because multiple display
technologies are on the near-term horizon, and they'll most likely all coexist with one another in
a display ecosystem that consists of many different niches and market segments. None of them
will enjoy the kind of hegemony that CRT had in its heyday.

In the near-term, a new generation of LCD panels is poised to revolutionize the television market
with power-sipping displays that are 1 inch thin, boast very high contrast ratios, and can hang on
the wall like a framed poster. The secret is in the new style of backlighting—the new displays
replace compact fluorescent lamps with white LEDs that use much less power and enable a
thinner screen profile.

While the LCD-backlit LED has so far brought incremental advances to the mobile-computing
space, the place where it's poised to have the most dramatic impact is in televisions. A high-end
LCD HDTV has a contrast ratio of about 30,000:1, whereas LED LCDs have contrast ratios
between 1,000,000:1 and 2,000,000:1. Power consumption and weight savings of LED-backlit
LCDs are between 30 and 50 percent, and these savings translate into very attractive form factors
—the latest LED LCD TVs from Sharp and others are only a little over 1 inch thick, despite their
large (46 inch and up) screen sizes.

Research firm iSuppli recently predicted that the percentage of these LED-backlit TVs will grow
from 3 percent of TV sales in 2009 to 39 percent in 2013.

With LED LCD poised to dominate at ever larger screen sizes, the smaller end of the screen size
spectrum will soon belong to organic LED (OLED). The viewing angle for OLED screens is
very wide, and it derives its unique visual effect from the fact that each individual pixel on the
screen consists of a glowing LED. So, unlike even the LED LCD technology, an OLED needs no
backlighting because the pixel grid itself is an array of colored lights. Such "active-matrix"
OLED displays are also brighter than active-matrix LCD technology (TFT-LCD), and they
maintain 100 percent of their color gamut at all gray levels.
Not only do OLED screens have every other screen technology beat in the contrast and
brightness departments, they're also thinner. Sony's 11-inch XEL-1 is currently the only
commercially available OLED TV, and it boasts a thickness of 3 millimeters. LG has announced
a 15-inch OLED TV that will be a scant 0.85 millimeters thick, which will launch Korea at the
end of this year.

You might think that with all of these benefits, OLED would be poised to take the living room
by storm and put the brakes on the aforementioned LED LCD HDTV trend. Unfortunately,
OLED has been confined to small screen sizes, and that will probably continue to be the case for
a while.

There are a few problems that need to be solved before OLED screens can be fabricated at larger
sizes. Once those problems are solved, and they soon will be, then biggest obstacle of all looms:
Costly fabrication facilities will need to be built, and that takes either money, which cash-
strapped companies are hoarding right now, or credit, which is still hard to come by. But once
credit loosens up and those fabs come online, OLED will finally be able to break out of its small-
screen niche.

Ultimately, OLED has potential applications far beyond HDTV. OLED displays can be printed
on a flexible plastic substrate, and foldable screens with the thickness of a credit card have
already been demonstrated at CES 2009. Clear OLED screens will also eventually be possible, so
that a window in your house could double as a TV screen.

While thin, flexible OLED displays will be put to some novel uses when they arrive, they
probably won't replace the printed page—that job will fall to E-Ink technology, which is already
used by Amazon's Kindle and competing e-book readers from Sony and others. Right now, most
E-Ink users are reading books and periodicals with the technology, but soon, business users will
be able to eliminate most of their laser printing by viewing word processor files, spreadsheets,
PDFs, and other business documents on an 8½ x 11 E-Ink screen. Indeed, Amazon's Kindle DX
is aimed at precisely this type of application, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made clear at the
product's launch that he had priced it to compete with laser printer ink refills.

E-Ink works by embedding a grid of particles on a page; these particles are black on one side,
and white on the other, and applying an electrical charge to them causes them to flip. Because an
E-Ink screen only uses electricity when it is being changed or refreshed, devices based on the
technology have excellent battery life. (The display is typically the largest power draw in a
modern mobile device.)

E-Ink's ultra-low power usage and daylight readability make it an ideal replacement for printing
in another application: signs. Signs in grocery stores for displaying product prices and specials
were among the earliest commercial uses for E-Ink, and as the technology gets cheaper and gains
new features like color and faster refresh times, it will see more widespread use in such signage
applications.

2009 is the first year that we're really seeing all of the display types mentioned here—LED LCD,
OLED, E-Ink, and legacy CFL LCD, plasma and others—all coexist in the market and establish
themselves in their respective niches. Each of these technologies has its own development track,
backers, and ideal use cases, and in some applications they'll compete with one another. But by
the end of this year, many early-adopter households will have at least one example of each
display type, all finding different uses. Clearly, the future of display belongs not to one
technology, but to many.

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