万花筒 2008-09-07&09-08 最薄的液晶电视

Centre stage at this year's IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin is the device that has long had a central spot in people's homes.

Televisions may seem like the most familiar of technologies, but both form and function are undergoing a significant rethink.

The president of Sony Europe, Fujio NISHIDA, made a string of global announcements, among them the launch of the world's thinnest LCD TV, the ZX1, which measures 9.9 millimetres.

 

"Quite an impressive product. I'm sure you will believe."

 

Sony also unveiled a new LCD TV with 200Hz motion flow technology, to help eliminate jitter² caused by fast moving action. For those want to move beyond LCD panels, organic light emitting diode TVs will soon make their European debut³.

"I am pleased announce that the XEL1 will be the world first all LED TV to reach the European market, at just three millimeter deep and with over a one million to one contrast ratio, the super TV image quality and crisp natural colors need to be seen to be believed. "

 

Philips also has a few new concepts to freshen up its flat panel offerings which range from colorful to understated. Des Power's the television division's senior vice¹ president of marketing⁴.

 

"Consumers have told us for years that the dream is to be able to hang a flat TV on the wall, just (as) your would (hang) a painting or the picture. And today with the Philips Essence TV, that is now possible. "

 

LG CEO of Digital display Simon Kang says with the standard of picture quality already very high, there is a new emphasis on networking the television in new ways.

 

"We are moving forward another area which is the broadband TVs. We are ready to introduce that broadband TVS early next year in United States.”

 

But, if the idea of broadband enabled flat panel doesn't catch a fancy, Germany Siemens is launching a multimedia⁵ refrigerator. Conversions⁶ may bring technologies together but it sure makes for some odd competition.

Matt Cowan, Reuters, Berlin

 

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 jitter   

v.神经过敏，战战兢兢

参考例句：

• I jittered when the headmaster came in.当校长进来的时候，我一阵紧张。
• Emerging-market bonds and shares,for instance,may jitter further.例如，新兴市场债券和股票可能更加震荡。

3 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

4 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

5 multimedia   

adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体

参考例句：

• Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
• Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。

6 conversions   

变换( conversion的名词复数 )； （宗教、信仰等）彻底改变； （尤指为居住而）改建的房屋； 橄榄球（触地得分后再把球射中球门的）附加得分

参考例句：

• He kicked a penalty goal and two conversions, ie in Rugby football. 他一次罚球得分，两次触地后射门得分（在橄榄球赛中）。
• Few of the intermediates or enzymes involved in these conversions have been isolated from higher plants. 在这些转变中包含的少数中间产物或酶已经从高等植物中分离出来。