From the monthly archives:

July 2006

WitsView Reports: CPT, HannStar, and Innolux Should Team Up

July 31, 2006

WitsView, a market research company based in Taiwan, suggests in a report that second tier display manufacturers in Taiwan should work together and form a strategic alliance. These panel suppliers are Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), HannStar Display Corp. and Innolux Display Corp.

CPT, Taiwan, Longtan, Yongmei
In the LCD industry, there is a cycle called the [...]

Acer Aspire 9800: 20.1″ Notebook PC Now Shipping

July 31, 2006

Back in April, Acer announced its Aspire 9800, the second notebook to have a HD-DVD drive…
I’m not sure exactly when Dell’s 20″ notebook, the M2010, became available, but the folks at NotebookReview is claiming that Acer, with its Aspire 9800, is the first to hit the market with a 20″ notebook. Since they are the [...]

LG Electronics to Transfer OLED Business to LG.Philips LCD

July 31, 2006

LG Electronics (LGE) owns 37% of LG.Philips LCD (LPL). LGE operates two Passive Matrix OLED (PMOLED) lines in Gumi, South Korea, where most of LPL’s TFT LCD fabs are located. Since 1999, LGE has invested over $200 million to develop its OLED business. LGE’s two PMOLED lines have a 2-3 million per year production capacity.
To [...]

Sharp G10 TFT LCD Fab

July 31, 2006

Sharp is considering investing toward a G10 TFT LCD fab. The G10 fab would cost roughly 500 billion yen (or US$4.3 billion) and if Sharp goes ahead with its plan, construction will start in the third quarter of 2007 and about 9 months to a year later will hit mass production around mid-2008. The glass [...]

AmTRAN Vizio LCD TVs

July 31, 2006

AmTRAN Technology is an integrator in Taiwan and has its own brand: Vizio. You might have seen some Vizio-branded LCD TVs at CostCo and Sam’s Club for very affordable prices. Well, Wal-Mart will begin selling the brand too.
AmTRAN came to the US in 2005 with the Vizio brand on its 42″ and 50″ plasma TVs [...]

New Gateway 22″ LCD Monitors?

July 31, 2006

Gateway currently has 19″ and 21″ wide LCD monitors. The 19″ wide (FPD1975W) has a 1440 x 900 resolution and is priced at $229.99 on Gateway’s website.

Gateway FPD1975W

Gateway FPD2185W
The FPD2185W, is Gateway’s 21″ wide LCD monitor with 1680 x 1050 resolution and a $499.99 price. That seems to be a pretty wide gap between the [...]

TMDisplay Third LTPS TFT LCD Plant

July 31, 2006

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, also known as TMDisplay, start construction of its third LTPS TFT LCD plant in April 2005. The Ishikawa Works plant is located in Nomi-gun, Ishikawa Prefecture. It took one year for it to reach mass production and in April 2006, started to manufacture low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) LCDs.

According to TMDisplay, input capacity [...]

Sharp LQ043T3DX04: 4.3″ 16:9 480 x 272

July 31, 2006

Sony’s PlayStation Portable has created a trend toward 4.3″ wide displays with a 16:9 aspect ratio and 480 x 272 resolution. Sharp has announced a display with the same features, the LQ043T3DX04. It uses Sharp’s wide-viewing technology called Advanced Super View (ASV) providing viewing angles of 160 degrees. Contrast ratio is 400:1, and the unit [...]

Monterey Boats 330 Sport Yacht: Comes with 26″ LCD TV

July 31, 2006

Monterey Boats unveiled its all-new 330 Sport Yacht measuring 35′ from stem to stem and a comfortable beam of 11′3″. Engine choices range from a 260hp diesel to a 320hp twin-gas. I’m not rich enough to be interested in boats,but this one comes with a 26″ LCD TV. This probably is nothing new to the [...]

Netgear SPH101: WiFi Skype Phone

July 31, 2006

Skype backgrounder:  Skype is a service that allows a PC connected to the Internet be used like a phone by using a technology called Voice over IP (VoIP). You can call other Skype users and others and have a conversation. Now, companies such as Netgear, are coming out with devices that let you take that [...]


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