InformationWeek: Fueled by rapidly declining average selling prices, an exploding supply of content and a vigorous consumer appetite, growth in high-definition television sales continues to accelerate this holiday season. But beyond the robust growth, glitzy new high-end displays and marketing frenz...
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TheStreet.com: Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita have formed an alliance to bolster their liquid crystal display panel businesses. The announcement highlights the increasing competition in the flat-panel industry. Other players have already teamed up: Sony and Samsung have struck an alliance, as have ...
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Electronista: Sharp and Toshiba today vowed to change the TV business with a new alliance that will play off of each other’s strengths. Under the deal, Sharp will receive semiconductors from Toshiba to handle the image processing in its AQUOS sets; Toshiba in turn will receive LCD panels f...
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CNNMoney: For years, parents have trained themselves to avoid disappointment by remembering batteries on Christmas morning. This year, gift givers need to help friends and family find the best high-definition service to go along with their shiny new high-definition televisions (HDTVs), according to ...
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The New York Times: Buyers of consumer electronics are haunted by one question: Should I buy now or wait for new features, better performance and lower prices? Certainly anyone who has considered buying a high-definition television has had that thought. The prices on 40-inch and 42-inch high-defini...
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Tech On: MyVoice Communications Inc has announced results of its survey primarily on consumers’ interest in purchasing a slim TV. The company conducted this survey via the Internet from Nov 1 to 5, 2007 and received responses from 19,700 people. In 2007, the industry’s first OLE...
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BusinessWeek: The Japanese company’s ability to sell ever-thinner liquid-crystal display sets will determine whether it can retain brand cachet and keep profits up. Shigeaki Mizushima is about as wily an engineer as you’ll find at Sharp. He once tailed the company’s to...
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InformationWeek: Toshiba has licensed Rambus’ high-speed memory technology for use in chipsets for high-definition TVs, the companies said Monday. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Japanese consumer electronics maker plans to implement Rambus’ XDR memory controller interface...
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Akihabaranews: The Prodia PIX-YT010-P00 is a 20 inches LCD HDTV featuring an HD-Ready resolution of 1366×768. Thanks to its nice design, HDMI port and affordable price tag, it dreams of being your secondary television! ? ? ? ? Pixela PIX YT010 P00
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The Korea Times: Samsung Electronics has fueling its moves to diversify its businesses from its hitherto high dependence on memory chips. On Friday, Samsung said it has designed the industry’s first digital TV receiver chip based on 65-nanometer processing technology, enabling digital TVs targeting...
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HiddenWires: Many consumers are still unable to get to grips with high-definition TV. Even the difference between analog or digital TV is not understood by a third of all German households. These are the findings of a GfK consumer survey on TV viewing conducted in seven European countries. HDTV (Hi...
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InformationWeek: Sharp on Wednesday sued Samsung Electronics, accusing the Korean company of infringing on three Sharp patents related to liquid crystal displays used in high definition TVs.The Japanese company filed the complaint in the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea. The suit claims t...
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TVPredictions.com: Almost one-third of non-HDTV households are interested in buying a high-def set in the next six months. That’s according to a new study from The Diffusion Group. The research firm adds that the wave of new high-def buyers could bring to shore more HD DVD owners as well...
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The Korea Times: Samsung Electronics plans to showcase a next-generation high-definition TV using a 31-inch active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AM OLED) display at the upcoming international consumer electronics fair. If Samsung releases the TV set on schedule, the company would become the...
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Guardian: Toshiba said on Tuesday it had shelved plans to sell ultra-thin TVs with organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays in 2009/10 because of the cost of mass production. Toshiba will stick to its plans to commercialise smaller OLED displays for cellphones next year, and will watch markets ...
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G4: In the market for a new HDTV? Want to get a free Blu-Ray player at the same time? Take a look at Panasonic’s models because they are offering their DMP-BD30K Blu-Ray player free with the purchase of a 42 or 50-inch plasma TV. Too bad they aren’t offering a free PS3, but they...
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Guardian: Seiko Epson Corp said it has halted production and sales of its rear-projection TVs, becoming the latest company to distance itself from a technology once seen as a promising rival of LCD and plasma televisions. Seiko Epson will focus resources on front projectors, but it is not withdrawi...
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Evertiq: DisplaySearch has released its Q3′07 Quarterly LCD TV Value Chain Report, which states that 23% of the 20.1 million LCD TV units shipped in Q3′07 were made by external OEMs such as TPV, Jabil, AmTRAN, Quanta, Proview, Vestel and Wistron. Many LCD TV brands outsourced 100...
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Electronic House: Sure Wiis, PS3s and Xboxs are flying off shelves for the holiday season, but you can’t just look at the pretty console, right? Sharp wants to get in on the action, releasing a new line of 32-inch AQUOS LCDs for the gamer on your gimme list. The 32-inch (LC-32GP3U) AQUOS LCD is des...
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Camera Core: Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, Tero Ojanpera, has told Reuters news agency that he expects video recording on cellphones to reach high definition (HD) quality in just a couple of years time.Nokia’s recently launched N95 cellphone is the first in its range to have the ability to recor...
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