The Best TV is Yet to Come

If you have been to Best Buy or some other store where they have a massive display of HDTV's you had to be impressed with the$5,000-$8,000 plasma HDTV's. They are an absolute knockout!! I still dream of watching an NFL game on one of these babies in my den(my art is selling well, but not that well).

Well guess what? A better quality TV is under development...and it will be cheaper than plasma. Several companies are working to perfect the technology behind a new type of flat-panel display that will use diamonds or carbon nanotubes, two forms of pure carbon, to produce images. Theoretically, these "field effect displays," or FEDs, will consume less energy than plasma or liquid crystal display (LCD) TV's, deliver a better picture and even cost less.

Electronics giant Samsung has already produced a prototype of a TV-size display made with CNI's nanotubes. Televisions based on the new screens will nudge onto shelves in late 2006. Meanwhile, Advance Nanotech is developing a similar panel that relies on specially doped diamond dust. The company hopes to have working prototypes in 18 months to two years.

Even though prices falling on HDTV's, it still might be worth waiting for these carbon-based TV's to come into the market.