Reuters: SANYO, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of 3LCD projectors announced at CES that they are now shipping the PLC-XL50 LCD Projector. The unique short throw distance of the PLC-XL50 allows projection in virtually any environment, particularly areas that traditional projectors...
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PC World: Sharp is wiring its HDTVs to the Internet in 2008. On Sharp Aquos model LCD TVs debuted?on Sunday?at press conference each sported ethernet ports for accessing Internet content such as weather, NBC news, hi-rez artwork and other Web content. Part of the plan to wire its LCD TVs also includ...
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PC World: First, JVC revealed it would be showing an HDTV that was 1.5 inches (3,8cm)?thick. Then LG showed its 1.7-inch?(4,3cm)?thick TV. Now, Pioneer has unveiled its concept design for a 50-inch (127cm)?plasma TV that’s just 9mm in width. That translates to 0.35, for those of who are me...
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Associated Press: JVC Americas Corp. said Sunday that it will offer a new series of LCD televisions with built-in docks for Apple Inc.’s popular iPod media player.The dock will allow consumers to play music and video from their iPods on JVC’s P-Series TVs, JVC said in a press rel...
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The Wall Street Journal: LG Electronics says it developed a low-cost way for North American TV stations to transmit digital signals to cellphones and other portable gadgets, fixing a technological shortcoming that hindered the U.S. digital TV standard from global acceptance. The company is using th...
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FOX Business: Hitachi has developed an Ultra Thin plasma display panel that is a mere 1.5-inches in depth. Having shaved more than one third of the thickness off of today’s comparable plasma displays, this new product represents an engineering achievement of significant importance from Hit...
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TMCnet: Syntax-Brillian Corporation announced that it will be exhibiting and demonstrating a wide variety of new Olivia LCD HDTVs at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Syntax-Brillian said that the Olivia LCD HDTVs feature the latest in display technology hardware and feature enhancements ...
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CNet: Hitachi is wielding a new weapon in the television market. Namely, automotive engineers. The frame on the 35-millimeter-thick LCD TVs that the Japanese manufacturing giant will showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week is made out of a polycarbonate from the company&...
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Slashdot: Dell has taken the wraps off their new 30″ LCD monitor and launched the UltraSharp 3008WFP. You’ll note that there are more than a few upgrades provided with this newer 3008 version. Specifically, the panel now has a 117% color gamut, in addition to having a 3000:1 con...
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Electronista: Polk Audio on Friday marked CES with the creation of its first SurroundBar home-theater-in-a-box setup. The SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater involves just two pieces thanks to virtual surround sound effects: a single, bar speaker and an all-in-one console that includes a DVD player as well ...
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VNUnet: Japanese consumer electronics giant Sharp is predicting that the average size of home LCD TVs in Europe will be 60in (152cm)?by 2015. Recent figures from market research firm GFK reveal that large flat-screen TV sales have risen by 182 per cent year on year. Sales of 46in-plus (117cm)?LCDs...
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Wired: Over two years ago, Bill Gates said that the next great tech battle was for the living room, and that the ultimate goal was to create an ecosystem where all of your gadgets “talked” intelligently to each other. At CES 2008, we’ll finally start seeing that vision...
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Electronista: Motorola yesterday launched an aggressive campaign to bolster its wireless offerings and began with its first handheld geared just towards mobile TV: the DH01 will pick up digital over-the-air broadcasts using the DVB-H standard and allow users to watch without the restrictions of cabl...
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HDTV: Coming in at a depth of just 35mm, the unusually named ‘Wooo’ series of LCD’s from Hitachi are due to make their debut on these shores this Spring. Initially available as LCD monitors, the Wooo range will expand in October 2008 with the addition of a separate box ...
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HDTV News: LG Philips is planning to reveal a 52-inch (132cm)?multi-touch LCD at the Consumer Electronics Show which opens in Las Vegas on 7 January. The model is the largest multi-touch LCD in the world.Multi-touch screens represent an advance on conventional touchpanels which use capacitive resist...
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Baltimore Business Journal: Every other household in the U.S. owns a digital television, according to research by the Consumer Electronics Association. According to CEA’s estimates, 32 million units will be shipped to consumers in 2008, an increase of 17 percent in unit sales over the cu...
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Electronista: Further reducing the rapidly shrinking Japanese HDTV market, Fujitsu on Thursday said it would halt production of its AVIAMO HDTV line, signaling the end of the company’s display business. The company argues that its focus for the sets, which primarly included a set of high-e...
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Electronics Supply & Manufacturing: As another record breaking year for television sales comes to a close, one thing is certain — flat panel displays are the clear consumer choice, with Plasma HDTV sets dominating the 50-inch and larger category. Plasma sales are accelerating from...
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Slashgear: Panasonic, one of the largest plasma manufacturer, will present the world largest consumer plasma flat TV once again at CES show 2008, with 47 inches bigger in diagonal compare to last model. The prototype was developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. It has a size dimension of 138...
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HiddenWires: DisplaySearch believes the outlook for plasma TV cost reductions and performance improvements are closely tied to improvements in luminous efficacy as outlined in its recently introduced 2007 PDP Technology Report. Luminous efficacy can be simply expressed as the relationship between lu...
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