On February 27 a formal contract between Canon and Hitachi was announced. Based on the agreement, Canon will acquire 24.9% shares of Hitachi Displays, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi. Hitachi Displays manufacture small/medium LCD panels. The 24.9% equity acquisition will be completed by March 31, 2008 and will be valued around JPY43.2B. Canon [...]
Samsung Electronics is bringing a bit of CE to IT with a new 16″ LCD geared for notebook PC applications. The 16″ will have a 16:9 aspect ratio, instead of the standard 16:10. And that means the pixel format will be 1920 x 1080 rather than 1920 x 1200. When watching 1080p content the notebook [...]
On February 25, The Nikkei reported that Sony plans to invest JPY100B (US$926M) in Sharp’s Gen. 10 TFT LCD plant. Sony is expected to have a news conference later on Tuesday. Sony has had experience in investing in LCD fabs to secure panel supply. With Samsung, Sony invested 50% of the cost of a Gen. [...]
On February 25, Pioneer announced that it will cease manufacturing 42″ plasma display panels (PDPs) and instead procure from Matsushita Electric Industrial or Hitachi. 42″ manufacturing from Pioneer’s Kagoshima prefecture will stop around March 2009. The focus will be on 50″ and larger plasma TVs that will be manufactured at Pioneer’s other plants. It might [...]
LG Flatron L206WU
Size: 20″
Pixel Format: 1680 x 1080
Contrast Ratio: 5000:1
Response Time: 2ms
Brightness: 300 cd/m2
Viewing Angle: 170/170
Input: DVI-D, VGA, USB
Availability: TBD
Price: TBD
LG’s Flatron L206WU is a special wide LCD monitor. All you need is a USB port to drive it. And six others! You can add up to six additional LCD monitors via USB with no [...]
Toshiba REGZA ZF Series LCD TVs
Sizes: 42″, 46″, 52″
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Contrast Ratio: 30,000:1 (dynamic)
Frequency: 100Hz Active Vision M100HD Picture Processing
Input: HDMI (4)
Design: Surface Tension
Availability: April 2008 in UK
Prices: TBD
The ZF Series LCD TV is the top-of-the-line REGZA by Toshiba. The bezels are ultra-thin at just 0.9″ wide. The slim profile of the ZF [...]
NEC Displays Solutions (NECDS), a wholly owned company of NEC Corp (Japan), will collaborate with Hong Kong-based TPV Technology to sell NECDS’ LCD monitors in India through TPV’s sales and service network. NECDS’ 15″, 17″ and 19″ LCD monitors will be sold and the company expects to sell 500K monitors in the next three years [...]
Sony is in final stages of negotiations to procure LCD TV panels from Sharp as early as April 2008, based on a news report by Reuters. S-LCD, a joint venture between Samsung and Sony, currently supplies most of the high-end LCD TV panels that Sony needs. The lower-end and smaller panels are procured from Taiwan-based [...]
Young Optics Incorporated (YOI) announced shipment of its pico projector by Q2′08 - Q3′08. YOI’s pico projector TI’s DLP chip and RGB LED as the light source. The pico projector is rated to consume less than 1 watt with a brightness of 7 lumens, according to the company. YOI expects the pico projector to comprise [...]
Asus MK241H Specifications
Size: 24″
Aspect Ratio: 16:10 (4:3, 1:1, Full modes support)
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1200
Brightness: 450 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio: 3000:1 (dynamic)
Viewing Angle: 170/160
Response Time: 2ms (GTG)
Display Colors: 16.7 million
Color Gamut: 92% NTSC
Webcam: 1.3MP (rotatable)
Input: HDMI, DVI-D with HDCP, VGA, Audio-In
Other: Built-in microphone, earphone, 2W x 2 stereo speakers
The Asus MK241H LCD monitor looks like a solid [...]
