Beolab: camshaft: Is it actually different from what Samsung, Sharp, and Sony(who's actually just licensing it from Samsung) have been doing with the motion interpolation? Since B&O is business buddies with Samsung now I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a derivation of the Samsung interpolation that they've been putting in the screens since last year. I'm not downplaying it, as I have one of the bilgarage tv's myself and like it - I'm just curious as to whether it's really "new".
I think B&o will use the existing (2x50Hz) 100Hz Samsung interpolation system and refine it with a more sophisticated processing and software..
I guess it will interpolate 3 x 50Hz Pal to 150Hz for for a completely stable and perfect picture with no pixel loss at all in motion... (160Hz for the NTSC)
Then the only problem left is the blackness for LCD.. But when the invidual LED back-lightening works properly in 2009 we can say; -Bye bye to the plasma!
I agree, but I think it would be Samsung that would do the upgrading, not B&O. Usually when a company like Samsung already has such a system, they already know what modifications should be done to increase the specs over their standard run of the mill offering. Then they sell the upgraded version of the technology to a company like B&O. It usually makes more sense for businesses to operate like that, where the seller upgrades their own technology before selling it, rather than the buying company attempting to improve it. On top of that when a new technology hits the consumer market, the companies usually already have the next version at hand by that time anyway.
I agree with the individual LED part too. Samsung's xx81 series of LED screens wasn't as impressive as I was hoping for, and I ended up getting the xx71 series instead.
Anyway, I keep saying Samsung, but for all we know I guess it could very well be some other company too. I'm just speculating.