AU Optronics (AUO) announced the second LCD module plant in China. AUO’s new module plant is located in Xiamen, China where it joins the other plant that began volume production in April 2007. By the end of 2007 production capacity may reach 500,000 units per month for large-area LCD modules and 5,000,000 units per month [...]

Sharp has decided to develop its “manufacturing complex for the 21st Century” by pouring US$3.3 billion into a 1.27 million m2 area in Sakai City, Osaka, Japan. The site will host a state-of-the-art LCD fab and a solar cell plant. The LCD plant will be a G10-class fab that can handle glass substrates with 2850 [...]

TI’s DarkChip 4 is DLP chip that the company claims has a native contrast ratio of 15,000:1 that is 30% better than the previous generation chips. The DarkChip 4 will be incorporated into DLP products in 2008. In addition, TI states that colors are in the trillions. Combined with LED illumination, a DLP TV set [...]

BOE Technology Group announced its plans to build a G4.5 LCD plant. BOE Optronics Technology (BOE OT), a branch company of BOE Technology Group who owns 78.54% of BOE OT, will increase the monthly glass input capacity of its G5 LCD fab to 100,000 substrates in 2H’07. Currently, BOE OT’s G5 fab has a monthly [...]

Panasonic has 5 TV production bases globally with one located in Shandong, China as part of Panasonic China. Panasonic has made the decision to stop production of CRT TVs and only focus on LCD TV production. There was no mention about whether Panasonic will continue to manufacture rear-projection TVs at the plant.
There is much that [...]

Qisda, formerlly BenQ, and Daewoo Electronics will be building small/medium LCD TVs for LG Electronics. These LGE LCD TVs will be geared for the European market. Qisda will manufacture the smaller sizes (15″, 20″, 26″) while Daewoo will focus on 32″. LGE also has much larger TVs (37″+) but will manufacture them in-house. Qisda operates [...]

AVING posted up some very nice pictures of the new Korean Air Airbus A380 jumbo plane. There seems to be at least 7 central portrait LCDs with another for one of the pilots and then a few more smaller ones. I know these LCDs are very expensive due to their ultra-tough specifications: they are firstly [...]

HP MediaSmart TV
Size: 42″, 47″
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080, Full HD, 1080p
Response Time: 6ms
Viewing Angle: 176/176
Input: HDMI (3), A/V, Ethernet
Sound: Integrated (2), HP Virtual Surround
Image Support: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
Video Support: AVI, DivX, DVR-MS, MPEG, WMV, XVID
Audio Support: AAC (Unprotected), MP3, WMA, WMA Pro
Special Features: 802.11a/b/g/n

This is a handsome unit, especially considering that it [...]

VPL-VW60
Pixel Format: 1080p, Full HD, 1920 x 1080/24p
Contrast Ratio: 35,000:1 Dynamic
Brightness: 1000 cd/m2
Availability: September, 2007
Price: US$5,000
VPL-VW200
Pixel Format: 1080p, Full HD, 1920 x 1080/24p
Contrast Ratio: 35,000:1 Dynamic
Brightness: 1000 cd/m2
Refresh Rate: 120fps SXRD Panel, 3 Compensation Modes
Lens: Carl Zeiss Vario-Tesar
Lamp: Xenon
Color: x.v.Color (via HDMI)
Input: HDMI, Ethernet (Setup, Color Control via PC)
Availability: October, 2007
Price: US$15,000

VPL-VW60

VPL-VW200

These two units look [...]

Samsung 30″ LCD with DisplayPort
Size: 30″
Pixel Format: 2560 x 1600
LCD Technology: Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (S-PVA)
Viewing Angle: 180/180
Brightness: 300 cd/m2

Samsung announced the world’s first LCD using the DisplayPort video interface on July 25, 2007. DisplayPort is a next-generation interconnect that might replace VGA, DVI, LVDS and even HDMI. With DisplayPort, the 30″ LCD with a [...]