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  2. Westinghouse Electronics - Wikipedia

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    Westinghouse Electronics, LLC is a Chinese-owned American company that manufactures LCD televisions located in Diamond Bar, California. [ 1 ] It is a licensee of the Westinghouse Licensing Corporation , commonly known as Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

  3. Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    The film also shows flat-screen TV monitors, of which the first real-world prototype appeared in 1972 produced by Westinghouse, but was not used for broadcast television until 1998. [33] Plane cockpit integrated system displays, known as "glass cockpits", were introduced in the 1970s [34] (originally in NASA Langley's Boeing 737 Flying Laboratory).

  4. The Rail Network - Wikipedia

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    TRN furnishes each rail car with multiple flat screen televisions displaying a digital picture with closed captioning. The news programming is provided by a local network affiliate in each market. The television broadcast follows the same format as any half-hour of network television: 20.5 minutes of content and 9.5 minutes of advertising ...

  5. Active-matrix liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    An active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AMLCD) is a type of flat-panel display used in high-resolution TVs, computer monitors, notebook computers, tablet computers and smartphones with an LCD screen, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and fast response time.

  6. Television set - Wikipedia

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    During the first decade of the 21st century, CRT "picture tube" display technology was almost entirely supplanted worldwide by flat-panel displays: first plasma displays around 1997, then LCDs. By the early 2010s, LCD TVs , which increasingly used LED-backlit LCDs , accounted for the overwhelming majority of television sets being manufactured.

  7. Westinghouse Sign - Wikipedia

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    The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , the large animated display advertised the Westinghouse Electric Company , and was best known for the seemingly endless number of combinations in which its individual elements could be illuminated.

  8. Cathode-ray tube - Wikipedia

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    Flat CRTs are those with a flat screen. Despite having a flat screen, they may not be completely flat, especially on the inside, instead having a greatly increased curvature. A notable exception is the LG Flatron (made by LG.Philips Displays , later LP Displays) which is truly flat on the outside and inside, but has a bonded glass pane on the ...

  9. The Current War - Wikipedia

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    After being snubbed by Edison, Westinghouse sets out to prove alternating current (AC) is the better technology, as it can work over greater distances and at significantly lower cost. Edison and Westinghouse compete to get cities across the United States to use their system. Westinghouse does an AC demonstration at Great Barrington in March 1886.