The 43″ showpiece won’t come cheap: It will retail around the $7,999 mark but it’s…curved and very Jetsons looking. This was first shown at CES 2008 and has a 200 nits brightness rating, 10,000:1 contrast, a razor sharp 2880×900 resolution, 0.02ms “Rapid Response,” will cover 99.3% of the Adobe RGB color range.

Yes, the 32:10 aspect ratio is unusual and gaming won’t be among the top listed uses. And the back does have a bit of bulk (9.7″ wide to be exact) to it that is carefully hidden by the company shot shown here. The price seems a bit on the high side, but hey, if this sort of thing tickles your fancy, feel free to go for it.

Beating the old uPD9245GJ chipset by running at 150Mhz clock speed instead of the previous 108Mhz speed (so it processes images much more quickly, improving action scene processing) and expanding color quality from simple 24-bit to 30-bitcolor (almost at the edge of human color range), it also promises to do its super-res sorcery based on just one frame of picture data instead of needing multiple frames and more addon memory, which will make it faster, more efficient and cheaper to produce.

The chip will start being made in July, and should open the door for more devices with lower-cost, higher quality image upconversion.

It includes a eyeball-searing 1500 cd/m² brightness and 3,500:1 contrast ratio too, it’s 112% brighter than NEC’s previous TVs and that’s quite an improvement. Of course, Samsung has them beat with their 70″ “Super Bright” set, but this one is really good for the price.

That price was announced as $3,899 (not cheap, but for this grade of brightness is pretty good), and the model should be available in stores around mid-July or so.

The models will be 12.1-inchers, and will probably end up in arcade games, industrial/CAD design applications or surgery screens when they launch at the beginning of next year, but smaller on the go 3.1″ versions are on the drawing board too, so it’s only a matter of time before this tech is available to everyone, which is good news for all those 3D fanatics out there.

Maybe that overdue 3D revolution is on its way after all.

NEC ASPV40-AVT LCD TV

For a high-defintion widescreen television that performs flawlessly with the functionality of a computer, then you may want to consider getting this 40″ LCD TV. With a 5000:1 contrast ratio, you can be sure that you’ll get a crisp image on this NEC HDTV that’s ideal for large group viewing. The ASPV40-AVT provides just as great auido as it does video, with a 20 watt bottom-mount detachable speaker system, you’ll hear amazing sound to enhance the crystal clear picture. Thanks to the compatibility with the most of today’s cuttingedge digital devices, you’ll be able to take advantage of the advanced image capabilities of the NEC ASPV40-AVT LCD TV at an affordable price.