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S: Shutter (native)
P: Polarization (native)
G: Ghosting induced
by the display (other sources of ghosting still remain)
| Technology | S | P | G | Developer/Inventor | Availability | Comment |
| film photo-chemical 8/16/32/70mm/IMAX | Y | Y | N | current standard | still the best image quality;
stereo3D solutions available (anaglyph, shutter & polarization) |
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| CRT - Cathode Ray Tube | Y | N | Y | Karl Ferdinand Braun, Germany | current standard | stereo3D solutions available (shutterglasses/-screens) |
| EL - Electroluminescence | ||||||
| LCD (DST) - Double Scan Liquid Crystal Display | N | N? | ? | available | will hopefully become extinct soon | |
| LCD (TFT) - Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display | N | Y | Y | current standard | several stereo3D solution available:
micro-polarization by VRex , lenticular-lenses by Philips, holographic optical elements by Richmond Holographic Studios autostereo with eyetracking by Sanyo 2-projector solution by APEC |
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| Plasma | ? | Y? | ? | available | ||
| Plasma-Adressed LCD | ? | Y? | ? | Sony, Japan (?) | available | |
| ILA - Image Light Amplifier (contains some CRT technology) | ? | Y | Y | available | already replaced by D-ILA, expensive, hard to handle | |
| D-ILA - Direct/Digital Image Light Amplifier | ? | Y | ? | available | hot ! | |
| DLP - Digital Light Processing (Micro Mirror Device) | Y | Y? | N | Texas Instruments, USA | available | hot !
The technology should be shutter-compatible in principle, but current system most likely won't work due to their refresh strategy. |
| Laser | Y | Y? | N | Schneider/Daimler-Benz, Germany | available soon | hot !
very promising |
| LEP - Light Emitting Polymers
OLED - Organic Light Emitting Displays FOLED - Flexible OLED |
? | Y? | ? | small prototypes already working, small commercial version due in 2000, large screens due in 2003 | Plastic has a "bright" future! | |
| LED - Light Emitting Diodes | Y | Y? | N | Reflection Technology
and others |
monochrome monitors available;
color monitors in development; color miniature device available |
there are color versions already available, but they won't fit into
your house, they have a dot-pitch of about 10 mm (for sport-stadiums and
such),
LED monitors are expensive, but unbreakable - no wonder the military utilizes them in tanks etc. |
| FED - Ferro Electric Display ? | ? | Y? | ? | available soon(?) | ||
| FED - Field Emission Display | ||||||
| PDP - AC-plasma |
Why says the chart NO on CRT and Polarization glasses? Well, there are polar-glasses for CRT's, but they need a shutter on the screen, so in fact they are shutter-systems afterall, not native polar systems.
It seems that almost all future display technologies will have less problems with ghosting than the current CRT-technology. Some won't work with shutterglasses though.
For the latest updates on Flat Panel Display R&D visit the U.S.
Display Consortium.