With all the concern for being thin that has beset our contemporary world, the craze for “reduction of size” has infiltrated the world of technology as well. Enter Hitachi at CES 2008 and its spanking new ultra-thin, Plasma HDTV!

The Hitachi plasma display model (PDP) is 50 inches in screen size yet only a mere 1.5-inches in depth. that marks the third Hitachi ultra-thin product to show its skinny face at CES;

the other two being the ultra-thin LCD HDTV and its super thin concept LED-backlit ¾-inch LCDS. Although thin LCDs have been around for a while, the plasma display is exciting and makes Hitachi among the first demonstrators to display one.

More than 1/3 of the thickness usually associated with today’s plasma displays has been shaved in that newest creation and that product represents a very crucial engineering achievement […]

Orginal post by Steven Kim