Big news everyone! Kolin shipped more LCD TVs in August than Sony. Kolin’s number is at 4,000 LCD TVs in August that includes the
#1 Kolin, 4,000+
#2 Chimei
#3 Panasonic
#4 Sony
The surprising thing is that Sony took the #1 spot at all. Sony being a premium brand with premium prices, you wouldn’t expect it to outsell dirt-cheap [...]
Sony commissioned the HD Benchmark study to track “how consumers are adopting these products and taking advantage of the benefits brought about by HD,” according to Carl Rose, Sony Australia’s Deputy Managing Director. According to the first HD Benchmark, 42% of total consumer electronics (CE) spending in the second quarter of 2006 was HD products [...]
Sharp introduced three new LCD TVs during CEDIA 2006. The three are LC-42D62U, LC-46D62U, and LC-52D62U. As the model names imply, they are 42″, 46″, and 52″ in size all all three toute Full HD resolutions of 1920 x 1080. The LC-42D62U has a 6000:1 contrast ratio, a 6ms response time and two HDMI ports [...]
CEDIA is the place to have been last week. LG Electronics (LGE) showed off its new 47LB1DA, a 47″ LCD TV with Full HD resolutions of 1920 x 1080. It has two HDMI ports. MSRP is at a cool $3,999. There is a previous blog entry regarding the 47LB1DA in detail but the picture is [...]
I wish I was at CEDIA. There’s a lot of really great technology and designs displayed there. LG Electronics (LGE) showed its 60″ plasma display panel (PDP) TV with an integrated HD-DVR (not your SD types), the 60PC1D. The HD-DVR has a 160GB, which translates into 13 hours of HD content or 63 hours of [...]
On November 14, 2006, Microsoft will start selling the new iPod competitor, Zune, at a $299 price. The display is a 3″ TFT LCD with 320 x 240 resolution: the same as most top-end Microsoft OS-based PDAs, although some have increased to 640 x 480, which is great. Back to the Zune: The audio formats [...]
Sony introduced two 52″ LCD TVs on September 14, 2006. One is the $6500 KDL-52XBR2 and the other is the $6800 (just $300 more) KDL-52XBR3. Both units will be available in November and can be pre-ordered through Sony’s site. These have Sony’s Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) that adjusts backlight levels in real-time and boosts the [...]
Sony announced the N Series notebook PCs on September 13, 2006. The N Series is your typical 15.4″ notebook PC but with a bit more attention given to the design. There are three colors available: black, white, and brown. Now, this isn’t the first time brown has been added to the mix, supposedly Microsoft’s new [...]
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High-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT LCD panels are usually manufactured for LCD chips for rear projection implementations. The new thing about Seiko Epson’s HTPS panels is that the company’s hybrid driving technology is incorporated that enhances 3 LCD front projectors and rear projection TVs. The D6 series uses an inorganic alignment layer that has a diagonal [...]
