Articles By shweta sharma

Did you know that in 2005 when Prince of Wales, the future King of England, got engaged to Camilla Parker Bowles, the diamond ring was a platinum engagement ring with 1920s platinum setting with a square-cut central diamond flanked by six diamond baguettes? Platinum settings are considered one of the more sophisticated settings for engagement rings and are currently a hot trend.

Financial institutions are using technology to improve the quality of services being offered. LCD screens are prime contributors to quality improvement and improving the overall "look and feel" of various financial institutions like banks and stock markets trading centres.

European Union and California wants to ban plasma screen televisions plasma screen televisions as they "guzzle" too much power and adds to the global warming issue.

Lately businesses are buying large format (>32 inch) LCDs for video conferencing, boardrooms, receptions, and for a number of applications such as retail showroom advertising and surveillance. A key question being asked is whether they should buy an LCD monitor (also called LCD information display panel) or an LCD TV. Some people think that an LCD TV is an LCD monitor plus a TV tuner and they are surprised to find that an LCD monitor may cost more than an LCD TV. For them, it just doesn’t make sense.

Did you know that Sony is looking to buy the LCD panels for its large TVs and information displays from the Osaka LCD plant two-thirds owned by Sharp? (Read: Business Week article: “Sony and Sharp’s LCD Linkup”, 27 February 2008).

An LCD monitor, or Liquid Crystal Display monitor, is a screen actively sought after as a large format TV screen or an advertising screen as a result of the highest quality images produced on these screens.

Businesses are rapidly adopting large high definition TVs and monitors for advertising, video conferencing, conference rooms, entertainment and information display, among other uses. We talked with a number of audio visual consultants, system integrators, distributors, vendors and customers and found there was confusion and misunderstanding as to what is better – LCD or Plasma for large screen use for various applications.