iFire HDTVs lose weight and thickness

iFire debuts HDTVs at less than an inch thickness.

iFire, the HDTV manufacturer has announced its plans for making an HDTV that will set new standards for the usual HDTVs. The thin skinny HDTV from iFire makes use of a phosphor based flat panel technology. The new HDTV, iFire claims, would just be able to hang in the wall.

The new HDTV will be very thin, just .78inches and the panel will be a 37inch one. Unlike most HDTVs in the market today, iFire HDTV will be of just 2.2 pounds. For attaining this weightlessness, the company uses a technology called thick-film dialectric electroluminescent technology or TDEL. In this technology, most of the materials used would be lightweight and the glass used in the panel will be ultra thinner. The HDTV will feature fewer electronics than plasma.

The iFire HDTV will have no backlighting, like the one used in LCD monitors. The screen gets energy from a sheet of blue phosphor, which energizes fluorescent pigments that emit green or red light. The RGB (red, green and blue) video is attained by combining the blue with the green and red light.

When iFire starts the mass production of the HDTVs, the pricing of the model would be almost $300 per screen. iFire hopes to start the mass production of their low-weight HDTVs by next year.