TVPredictions.com: The 1080p High-Definition TV will outsell older models over the next year and could help boost related sales of 1080p products. That’s according to a new report from DisplaySearch, as reported by TWICE Magazine. The 1080p HDTV, which purports to offer a better resolutio...
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CNNMoney: AU Optronics Corp.?(AOU)?yesterday introduced its advanced commercialized LCD TV technologies, strengthening its pioneering role as the industry technology innovator. In response to the current concerns regarding a greener environment, AUO’s newly launched TV technologies not onl...
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BBC News: The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria has become the first place in the UK to undergo the official switchover from analogue to digital TV. BBC Two’s signal was switched off at 0200 BST on Wednesday, with digital channels replacing it shortly after. The other signals will go from 14...
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TWICE: Amazon.com has launched a dedicated HD micro site designed to explain and sell high-definition TV and related products to less tech-savvy consumers. The micro site, called Amazon High-Def 101, serves as comprehensive knowledge base for HDTV and home theatre, while also presenting the e-taile...
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HDTV News: Sharp and Yahoo?demonstrated a new service called Yahoo! HD for AQUOS’, at CEATEC 2007. The service displays content from Yahoo’s Japanese portal, including maps and photos, and displays them on a 1920 x 1080 resolution LCD TV. The service acquires data written in SVG, an XML-based lang...
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TWICE: Samsung Electronics reported record revenue of $18.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, ended Sept. 30. Operating profit on a consolidated basis reached $2.98 billion, a 93 percent increase over the last quarter. Record quarterly sales in the telecommunication handset business, coupled w...
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ZDnet: South Korean display screen maker Samsung SDI said on Wednesday that it started mass-producing ultrathin flat screens and would double capacity by next year, sending its shares surging 14 percent. The world’s No. 3 maker of plasma display panels is increasingly looking at superthin...
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CNet: NTT, Japan’s telecommunications giant, with help from Hitachi Displays has come out with a 3D LCD screen that doesn’t require eyeglasses and doesn’t cause eye strain. Called SpaceIllusion, the LCD screen basically consists of two LCDs sandwiched 10 millimeters ap...
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ZDnet: South Korean display screen maker Samsung SDI said on Wednesday that it started mass-producing ultrathin flat screens and would double capacity by next year, sending its shares surging 14 percent. The world’s No. 3 maker of plasma display panels is increasingly looking at superthin...
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TWICE: Amazon.com has launched a dedicated HD micro site designed to explain and sell high-definition TV and related products to less tech-savvy consumers. The micro site, called Amazon High-Def 101, serves as comprehensive knowledge base for HDTV and home theatre, while also presenting the e-taile...
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Electronista: JVC has used its time spent at Japan’s CEATEC technology show to demonstrate what it says is the first LCD panel with a 180Hz refresh rate. The 32-inch sample display uses a custom algorithm that can successfully interpolate a typical HDTV feed, which runs at 60Hz, and insert...
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HDTV News: JVC has demonstrated a prototype of its ultra-high definition camera for TV and movies at CEATEC, the consumer electronics and IT trade show in Japan. The 4K camera shoots 30 frames-per-second video at 3840 x 2048 pixels. This gives a total resolution equivalent to four current-generati...
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CNet: NTT, Japan’s telecommunications giant, with help from Hitachi Displays has come out with a 3D LCD screen that doesn’t require eyeglasses and doesn’t cause eye strain. Called SpaceIllusion, the LCD screen basically consists of two LCDs sandwiched 10 millimeters ap...
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CNNMoney: In their respective segments, the Sony BRAVIA LCD series, Pioneer Plasma series and Samsung DLP series rank highest in customer satisfaction among large-screen high definition televisions (HDTV), according to the inaugural J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Large Screen HDTV Usage and Satisfac...
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Tech On: Hitachi Ltd. has developed a 1.9-mm ultra slim 32-inch LCD TV. The company aims to start volume production of this LCD TV within fiscal 2009. The prototype will be displayed at “CEATEC Japan 2007,” which opens Oct. 2, 2007. Sharp Corp. also revealed its slim LCD TV in A...
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VNUnet: Recent “explosive growth” in consumer demand for LCD televisions is fuelling a rapid expansion in the market for semiconductors used in the sets, market watchers report. Global revenues from such semiconductors are set to nearly quadruple between 2006 and 2011, according...
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Engadget: Have a look at these juicy pictures of Hitachi’s sub-inch thick 32-inch LCD HDTV samples, shown at CEATEC yesterday. Unfortunately?no information about the TVs is available from the Hitachi reps present. What’s a display nerd to do? hitachi lcd lcd tv
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CNet: Sony will launch an ultra-thin flat TV based on the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology on December 1 in Japan, bringing a new contender to a market dominated by LCD and plasma TVs. It will be the world’s first OLED TV, the company said on Monday. Sony, the world̵...
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HDTV News: Microsoft has announced new Extenders for Windows Media Center, which connects a broadband-connected PC to a home entertainment centre. The technology provides easy access to HDTV, video formats including DivX, music, photos and other media, from any TV in a house, via a network connect...
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eeTimes: Japan’s Sony Corp. and Toyota Industries Corp. have consolidated their two LCD joint ventures in an effort to cut costs.The firms announced an agreement to integrate management of their ST Liquid Crystal Display Corp. (STLCD) and ST Mobile Display Corp. (STMD) joint ventures. Son...
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