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Old 07-05-2011, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyGiro View Post
I personally knew of super LCD display technologies in prototype back in the mid 90s, based on ferroelectric liquid crystals, that moved ten times faster than the present 'nematic' type of today. The reasons you don't see them for sale is that they cost about three times more to make the displays, and the companies are still selling the old technology at profit, so there's no economic incentive from their point of view to sell better stuff.
Ok. Now tell me if you call that "progress" or not.
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