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Konica Minolta Launches Inkjet Printhead That Can Print OLED Displays

OLED panels are really expensive at present, but this situation may not last for very long now that Konika Minolta has released a breakthrough device. What the company did was build the world's first inkjet printhead capable of printing OLED displays, marking the first step towards roll-to-roll printing of OLE...

14 February 2012
07:45 GMT

Sharp Motions Towards 70-Inch AQUOS LCD TV

In Japan, Sharp has made the official introduction of a beastly liquid crystal display, one that almost puts LG's new 3D, glasses-free monitor to shame as far as pricing goes. Sharp's new liquid crystal display TV set is a large and high-quality product that, even without featuring support for 3D, has a p...

14 February 2012
04:46 GMT

LG Builds New Glasses-Free 25-Inch 3D Monitor

LG may not be making the same choices as Samsung in regards to its OLED TV, but that does not mean it is slacking off, as its newest product announcement all too clearly shows. The company has announced the impending availability of a new, special monitor, bearing the name of D2500N-PN. The name alone does not exa...

14 February 2012
04:16 GMT

UK May Get Samsung's 55-Inch OLED TV This Spring

Looks like that 3D-ready OLED TV we last saw at CES 2012 may be headed to the shores of the United Kingdom. Even though it wasn't expected before summertime, the company reportedly told CNET that it had sped things up quite a bit. In other words, the product is now scheduled for a release during spring. Al...

14 February 2012
03:23 GMT

250,000 Smart TVs Denied Internet, Samsung Gets Ready to Sue

Samsung is none too happy about how, just the other day, hundreds of thousands of its Smart TVs got suddenly cut off from the Internet. For those that missed the report yesterday (February 9, 2012), South Korean Internet provider KT decided to cut off web access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs. The reason ...

10 February 2012
04:00 GMT

75-Inch Mitsubishi LaserVue TV Named Most Efficient ENERGY STAR

Of all the companies that deal in large TVs, Mitsubishi has turned out to be the most efficiency-minded and has the recognition to prove it. The company's 75-inch LaserVue TV, a beast of a flat-panel television set, has earned the Most Efficient ENERGY STAR designation for 2012. The reason for this is that, e...

8 February 2012
11:26 GMT

Prysm Intros New LPD Display, Close Proximity Panel

At the 2012 edition of the ISE trade show, Prysm showcased a new example of its unique display technology, LPD, short for Laser Phosphor Display. This year's edition of the Integrated Systems Europe show took place in Amsterdam between January 31 and February 2, 2012. It so happens that Prysm made an appearan...

8 February 2012
11:00 GMT

Samsung Wants to Sell 50m TVs in 2012, 25m Smart TVs

Samsung has a clear idea of how it wants its TV business to progress this year, and the numbers are quite ambitious. For the entirety of 2012, the company wants to reach flat-panel TV shipments of around 50 million, half of which will be smart TVs. As a reminder, smart TVs are TVs which also have Internet connectiv...

8 February 2012
10:19 GMT

Large-Size LCD Prices Stabilized in December, 2011

According to iSuppli, liquid crystal display panels do not appear to be as unfortunate as semiconductors, and definitely not in the same boat as NAND and DRAM products. Based on some recently published financial estimates from IHS iSuppli, LCD prices are not going down anymore, at least not as fast as a few months ...

7 February 2012
13:01 GMT

LG's Smart TVs Play Games with Magic Motion Remote and Stronger Graphics Chips

Smart TVs can already do a lot of things, like access the Internet for social networking and online video or TV broadcast streaming, but there is something even they can't tackle very well yet. That something is games, but LG and Unity Technologies decided to remedy this shortcoming through a new partnership. ...

7 February 2012
11:38 GMT

Panasonic Builds Full HD LCD Video Projector

Panasonic has just made an announcement in which it promotes the PT-LZ370U, a video projector that will come in handy during art history and film classes, plus engineering R&D, among other things. The PT-LZ370U can project images in Full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) and at a brightness of 3,000 lumens. Als...

7 February 2012
10:38 GMT

Even Touch Panel Makers Have It Hard

Going forward with the distressing news, even the touch panel market turned out to have enjoyed a less than favorable first month of 2012. Digitimes again plays the role of bearer of bad news, so to speak. Apparently, makers of touch panels saw their revenues drop on month by almost 20%. TPK Holding had it part...

7 February 2012
04:50 GMT

NEC Launches 55-Inch P Series LCD That Works 24/7

NEC has introduced a new member of the P Series of large-screen, professional-grade displays, intended for applications where high endurance and long lifespan are required, such as public venues. The new panel that the company is almost ready to start shipping has the name of P552 and, as one would expect, possess...

6 February 2012
09:57 GMT

Corning Outlines Ambitious Plans, Glass Business Evolves

By making the Gorilla Glass, Corning has basically made the comparison “brittle like glass” obsolete, but the company wants to go forward and promote newer and better types of glass until it manages to meet its financial goals and, perhaps, even go past them. A few days ago, we posted about Corning'...

6 February 2012
04:10 GMT

Video: Corning Shows What Wonders Can Be Achieved with the Right Glass

There was a time when comparing something to glass meant that the thing/being in question was very fragile. With Gorilla Glass, and Gorilla Glass 2, Corning has already shown just how far from brittle glass can be. Now, the company has released a pair of videos in which it shows how many uses it envisions for glass...

4 February 2012
05:53 GMT

ViewSonic Ships 23-Inch IPS Monitor with LED

ViewSonic has just released an IPS panel that is easily one of the most affordable displays in its size class, even while using LED backlighting. For all those customers that want to buy a display but aren't interested in design embellishments and whatnot, ViewSOnic has introduced the VX2336s-LED. As the name...

3 February 2012
04:30 GMT

As HDTV Sales Decline, Sharp Cuts Production in Half at Osaka Plant

Sharp may be one of the greatest makers of displays, but that also means that it will be hit particularly hard if the general interest in such products drops. As it happens, HDTV panels haven't been selling very well lately, enough so that the company has decided to cut down production at a plant in Osaka (by h...

1 February 2012
10:26 GMT

Samsung Also Preps Series 7 Smart Station Monitors

If anyone was wondering, Samsung has a monitor/docking station hybrid almost ready to start shipping, not just ultrabooks and netbooks for kids. Being involved in so many different IT industry segments, Samsung often launches things in a set instead of releasing items one by one. In this instance, the company has...

1 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Mass Production of Toshiba 55-Inch 4K2K 3D TVs Kicks Off, No Glasses Needed

2012 is bound to see the appearance of at least several display product lines with resolutions that go beyond the Full HD image quality, and Toshiba is proving to be quite fast on its feet, so to speak. Toshiba has begun mass producing its series of 3D TVs that feature glasses-free technology and a native resolutio...

1 February 2012
03:29 GMT

LG Showcases 165-Inch 3D Display at ISE 2012

LG has prepared something “big” for this year’s ISE 2012 fair, namely a 165-inch super narrow bezel 3D display which uses the company’s proprietary FPR 3D technology.Developed by LG, the Film-type Patterned Retarder technology, FPR for short, uses plain-old curved lenses glasses, similar to th...

30 January 2012
12:58 GMT

LG Will Start OLED Display Manufacture in July, 2012

Looks like OLED panels are far enough along in their development that at least one company knows when it will begin the shipment and promotion efforts in earnest. LG has announced that it has decided to begin mass production of OLED panels in July, 2012. For those unaware, LG, like Samsung, had a 55-inch OLED TV ...

27 January 2012
07:21 GMT

Qualcomm Buys Display Maker Pixtronix, Mirasol May Evolve

Qualcomm is known for many things, but displays aren't exactly the main source of its fame, something that may or may not change after the most recent deal is closed. Though Qualcomm is primarily a developer of mobile products and wireless technology, it also dabbles in fields like entertainment devices and di...

26 January 2012
10:09 GMT

Maker of Near-Indestructible Glass Panels Thrives in Q4, 2011

Gorilla Glass panels turned out to be a very lucrative venture for the company that invented them, enough so that Corning reported record annual sales for 2011. Like Western Digital and Advanced Micro Devices, Corning has published the financial results for the most recent quarter, as well as the whole year 2011. ...

25 January 2012
08:21 GMT

Haier 55-inch 3DTV Uses Wireless Energy Transfer

The TV that Haier recently unveiled is one of those items that stands out through more than one perk, although it is the total lack of cables that truly earned attention. Haier recently showcased a 3DTV with a diagonal of 55 inches and featuring the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. The company di...

20 January 2012
17:01 GMT

LED-Backlit TVs Finally Take the Lead in the US

After years of being the underdog, LED backlights have finally taken the leading position among the lighting technologies most used on the US TV market. LED backlighting is a technology that gets talked about very often nowadays, thanks to its low power draw and higher image quality compared to CCFL. Nevertheless,...

19 January 2012
09:45 GMT

Samsung Releases Series 9 High-End All-in-One PC

This is one of those products that have been demonstrated during the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, but have only now been released. Samsung has begun to ship the Series 9 all-in-one system in South Korea, meaning that it should not take too long for the rest of the world to get it as well. One sh...

19 January 2012
07:28 GMT

GM Presents Augmented Reality Window of Opportunity

General Motors Research and Development (GM) challenged researchers and students from the FUTURE LAB at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel to come up with some way of making car rides more enjoyable for passengers. As any rules and regulations book will clearly spell out, car drivers should have their eye ...

19 January 2012
04:03 GMT

Samsung 46-Inch Transparent LCD Formally Launched

If 2011 was the year when 3D panels picked up steam, 2012 may just be the one that sees transparent panels, like the one Samsung has announced, actually become a true part of the market. It was not too long ago that Samsung revealed a new transparent liquid crystal display panel, one that was a sort of successor to...

17 January 2012
05:54 GMT

HP VantagePoint 135-Inch Multitouch Display Has 4098 x 1536 Resolution

There aren't many displays that can truly qualify as wall panels and, either way, none of them actually covers the space that HP's VantagePoint does. HP has just revealed a so-called collaborative multitouch solution for corporations, public spaces and commercial venues like retail. It is a wall-sized di...

17 January 2012
05:22 GMT

Siemens Reveals Flexible OLED for Tablets and TVs

Ideas for bendable screens have been shown before, but Siemens, or at least its Osram lighting division, may have come up with the best one yet. The widely known engineering company revealed a flexible ribbon made of plastic, which can emit light. This is, basically, a foldable OLED strip, one that might actually...

17 January 2012
04:46 GMT

Green House Releases 21.5-Inch TV Monitor

Looks like Green House has finally gotten around to unleashing a new multi-purpose display, one that should already be shipping to customers. Green House has just finished revealing a display that may end up acting as a TV or a monitor, depending on who buys it. Dubbed GH-TV22JLHDK, it is not so much a Smart TV, b...

16 January 2012
05:58 GMT

Samsung Wants Top Position as Notebook Maker

It appears that Samsung is one of the companies with great ambitions regarding the mobile personal computer market. According to a new report, the company wants to eventually become the top supplier of notebooks. CES 2012 has already seen a variety of mobile PCs being unveiled. Samsung's Executive Vice Presi...

14 January 2012
06:34 GMT

CES 2012: Samsung Demos 14-Inch Transparent Screen

Samsung's exhibition at CES 2012 is not limited to Chromeboxes or the expected range of displays and media products. What the company has also brought along, according to reports, is a very special mobile computer. Only in prototype stage for now, the 14-inch notebook features a transparent screen. Transpa...

12 January 2012
16:41 GMT

Sharp Reportedly Loses iPad 3 Display Orders from Apple

A Korean IT news source seems to confirm that Sharp is no longer an iPad 3 supplier for Apple, at least not a display supplier anyway.“It has been confirmed”, reports Etnews.com, that only Samsung and LG Display are now racing to complete orders for Apple, as Sharp has reportedly failed in the trial runs ...

12 January 2012
08:26 GMT

CES 2012: Sony Reveals 55-Inch Crystal LED Display

While Samsung and LG are busy showing off their respective 55-inch OLED panels, Sony has put together its own HDTV demonstration, one that, it hopes, will enable it to recover its share in the worldwide TV market. The past couple of years haven't been very easy on Sony, with hacking attacks and generally poor ...

10 January 2012
18:11 GMT

CES 2012: Samsung Demos 55-Inch OLED TV

Looks like Samsung has finally made the live introduction of a large Super OLED display, putting an end to LG's short-lived monopoly in this field. LG may have been the first company to formally reveal a 55-inch OLED TV, but Samsung has just done the same. No name was given to the model demonstrated during Sa...

10 January 2012
16:41 GMT

CES 2012: Sharp Also Has Big Screens on Show, Even an 80-Inch One

Truly large displays are not very common, but when they do show up, they make a strong impression, as Sharp must be more than happy to see for itself. Of course, when a company makes an 80-inch display, it goes without saying that people will gawk, or at least stare, especially during a public even like CES. Sharp...

10 January 2012
13:41 GMT

CES 2012: VIZIO Announces CinemaWide TVs with 21:9 Aspect Ratio

VIZIO has a variety of things on display at CES 2012, monitors and TVs taking up much of its exhibition. It appears that the company has even done something a bit unusual, namely build a number of LCD HDTV sets with the 21:9 aspect ratio. That's the same ratio that cinema screens have. VIZIO aptly named the p...

10 January 2012
11:31 GMT

First Android 4.0 Lenovo 3D Smart TV Controlled by Voice

Like so many other companies, Lenovo will be present at this year's CES, one of its products being a special Smart TV that runs the latest version of Android. IT companies seldom miss an opportunity to claim that one their devices is the world's best in one or more areas, or the first to exhibit a certain...

9 January 2012
07:11 GMT

Corning Brings Gorilla Glass 2 to CES 2012

Corning's Gorilla glass made a name for itself among rugged consumer electronics devices, but it may finally be time for it to retire and pass on the torch to the new generation. Like so many other companies in the IT industry, Corning is going to make an appearance at this year's Consumer Electronics Sho...

6 January 2012
07:42 GMT

2,560 x 1,440 Samsung Series 9 Monitor Gets Its Act Together

Samsung hasn't released just Series 7 products, but also a Series 9 monitor that, according to its maker, incorporates the best that the company has to offer in monitors. “The best” is a term subject to interpretation, but if Samsung itself says it then at least the intention to make it best-in-cla...

5 January 2012
11:31 GMT

AOC Re-Launches 15.6-Inch USB Monitor

AOC has just sent out a press release in which it details an USB monitor which it hopes to send to stores at some point next month (February, 2012). There is something rather strange about the announcement, or at least the product. Simply put, this is not the first time that the company introduces it. Then again,...

5 January 2012
07:31 GMT

Samsung Announces Series 7 HDTV Docking Station

Showing that this really is the age of hybridization, Samsung has announced, among various other things, the Series 7 Smart Station. The Series 7 Samsung Smart Station is based on a Series 7 HDTV monitor but does more than just display images, in quick succession or otherwise. The reason it stands apart from moni...

5 January 2012
03:10 GMT

HP Outs Notebook Docking Monitor and Some Business Displays Too

In addition to a pair of different computers, HP has prepared a trio of displays, only two of which can perfectly be defined as kin. Out of the three monitors that HP has created for businesspeople, the two that can be called siblings are HP LV1911 and LV2011. Armed with LED backlighting and affordable prices, th...

4 January 2012
15:01 GMT

NEC Presents 24-Inch MultiSync EA Enterprise Monitor

NEC's MultiSync series of monitors just got a new member, one that is supposed to be superior to previous-generation models in size, weight and energy efficiency.The new display that NEC announced is a MultiSync EA-series member with a diagonal of 24 inches. Its full name is MultiSync EA243WM.It utilizes a 16:1...

3 January 2012
15:21 GMT

HP Compaq LE2002xm 20-Inch Monitor Released

HP's new monitor isn't one of those new, Full HD panels, but chooses, instead, to settle for a lower resolution (1,600 x 900 pixels). The widescreen display bears the name of Compaq LE2002xm and has a diagonal of 20 inches. By now, users familiar with HP's product line and naming schemes will have gu...

29 December 2011
16:01 GMT

LG Brings 84-Inch 3D Ultra-Definition TV at CES 2012

LG is not going to cut any corners at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, not on the display market at any rate. In fact, it would be safe to say that the company is more than ready to humble most every other display maker out there. We already saw how the company is ready to show off a 55-inch OLED display a...

29 December 2011
10:51 GMT

55-Inch OLED Display from LG Appears at CES 2012

It wasn't so long ago that organic light-emitting diodes were used only in small handsets, but the time has come for OLED to earn its place at the summit of monitor and TV display technologies. OLED has an advantage in how it doesn't need special backlighting, meaning that screens based on it are thinner ...

28 December 2011
15:21 GMT

Transparent Screens Rise in 2012, Samsung Hopes

Transparent screens are one of Samsung's most recent and ambitious projects, so the company obviously wants it to gain traction, hence the praise it has been sending its way and the list of prospective customers it has been putting together. Apparently, Samsung is convinced that the time of futuristic windows ...

27 December 2011
04:47 GMT


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