LCD TV

Fourth Quarter LCD TV Panel Pricing

August 17, 2010

Some LCD sup­pli­ers expect fourth quar­ter LCD TV panel pric­ing to con­tinue falling; oth­ers dis­agree. AU Optronics (AUO), Chimei Innolux (CMI) and LG Display (LGD) will most likely reduce uti­liza­tion rates by 5-10%. By mod­u­lat­ing sup­ply the three LCD man­u­fac­tur­ers will attempt to main­tain fur­ther ero­sion of LCD panel prices. LCD sup­pli­ers expected LCD TV [...]

China Subsidies Drive TV Sales In Rural Areas

August 15, 2010

China’s rural sub­sidy pro­gram accounted for 66% of total TV sales in rural areas of the coun­try, accord­ing to All View Consulting (AVC) and as reported by Digitimes. Total TV sales were 5.57 mil­lion units in the first half of 2010. Four mil­lion were LCD TVs. AVC expects total TV sales to due to the [...]

Samsung SyncMaster FX2490HD: 24-inch 1080p Monitor TV

August 6, 2010

Samsung’s SyncMaster FX2490HD is a 24-inch LCD mon­i­tor sport­ing an edge-lit LED back­light. The FX2490HD fea­tures a 1920×1080 pixel for­mat, an inte­grated TV tuner, two HDMI ports, D-Sub and SCART. Other dis­play specs include: 1000:1 con­trast ratio, 250 cd/m2 bright­ness, a USB port. Priced around US$540 and should be avail­able in September. The stand. Some might [...]

TPV Technology To Take Over Philips LCD TV Business

July 13, 2010

According to cheaa.com via Digitimes, TPV Technology will report­edly take over Royal Philips Electronics’ LCD TV busi­ness. An already-drafted agree­ment will give TPV the rights to use the Philips brand in its TV prod­ucts along with LCD TV-related patent rights, inven­to­ries, cus­tomers and employ­ees. Read Philips Opts Out of LCD TV Business, Funai Takes Over [...]

Samsung LCD Q1’10 Results

May 1, 2010

Revenues decreased 6.04% Q/Q and increased 40.37% Y/Y to KRW6.85T (about US$6.14B). Samsung focused on 40-inch and larger LCD TV pan­els, LED-backlit pan­els and mod­els with 3D and 240Hz in Q1 and will con­tinue to do so in 2010. Source: Digitimes

LG LED LCD HDTV: LED, LED Plus, Full LED Slim

January 7, 2010

That’s a lot of acronyms in the title but the one to remem­ber is Full LED Slim. That’s the top-of-the-line LED tech­nol­ogy from LG. At the low-end is sim­ply LED, which is an edge-lit LED back­light with­out local dim­ming. That makes it slim and energy-efficient. Next up is LED Plus that adds local dim­ming to [...]

LG Display World’s Thinnest 42-inch LCD Panel

December 21, 2009

LG Display’s 42-inch LCD panel is just 2.6-mm thick (0.1 inch) and sports an edge-lit LED back­light, 120Hz, 1080p and weighs a lit­tle under 8.8 pounds. Imagine a large LCD TV that is almost flush with the wall… tan­ta­liz­ing. Of course we’ll need the other boxes to become very thin very fast to com­ple­ment these ultra­thin LCD [...]

Hello Kitty LCD TV

December 11, 2009

The Hello Kitty LCD TV. Specs: 13.3-inch 1280 x 800 LED back­lit LCD, 100/55 view­ing angles, 275 cd/m2 of bright­ness, con­trast ratio of 500:1. Priced at ¥49,800 (about US$558). But all that doesn’t mat­ter. My daugh­ter will think it is the cutest TV she’s ever seen. Priceless. Source: Impress (Google trans­lated from Japanese to English) via [...]

BenQ SQ4242: 42-inch 1080p LCD TV

December 6, 2009

BenQ‘s SQ4242 is a 42-inch 1080p LCD TV with the fol­low­ing specs: Contrast Ratio: 5000:1 Brightness: 500 cd/m2 Response Time: 5.5ms Format Support: 1080/24p Connectivity: HDMI (3), Component, Composite, S-Video, VGA, DVI The design is clean except for the unnec­es­sary red line. The only thing that con­cerns me is I don’t know if I can trust the BenQ brand [...]

Himax Infinity Color Technology

December 3, 2009

Himax’s Infinity Color Technology (ICT) is an image pro­cess­ing tech­nol­ogy that saves power for LCD TVs and LCD mon­i­tors. The back­light unit (BLU) of a LCD con­sumes the most energy and typ­i­cal solu­tions have cen­tered around con­tent adap­tive back­light con­trol (CABC). CABC does indeed reduce power but also loses gray scales lead­ing to lower quality [...]

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