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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

iPad 3 Parts Match When Combined, Leaks Were Accurate

iPad parts reseller Eye Lab Factory has put together a leaked Sharp display with a leaked iPad 3 dock connector and back plate and concluded that the parts match. Based on the results, Apple’s next iPad should be slightly thicker than the current-generation model. iLab.cc “combined and evaluated the qual...

13 February 2012
09:05 GMT

I-O Data Intros 23-Inch LED-Backlit IPS LCD Monitor

I-O Data is almost ready to start shipping a new monitor, one that has an arguably peculiar combination of performance specs and pricing. The LCD-MF234XPGBR, as the company's new monitor is called, is not exactly the most revolutionary of displays. That would imply that it is intended either for regular consu...

9 February 2012
12:11 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

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

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

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

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

CES 2012: Samsung Brings 60-Inch Smart TV

Details about Samsung's CES exhibition continue to trickle in, this time regarding one of the less ambitious but still big and versatile TV panels. The trade show happening each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, is not called Consumer Electronics Show for nothing. It is meant to be a convention for the release an...

12 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

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

LCD Price Fixing Gets Sharp, Samsung and Five Others Fined

LCD manufacturers really haven't been taking care of their records as well as they should have. Oddly enough, it happens again that, just as people are trying to enjoy holiday cheer, courts issue huge fines. At least this once it is corporations that have to cough up the cash instead of random people. Sharp, ...

28 December 2011
09:12 GMT

Sony and Samsung Stop Playing with LCDs Together

Looks like another one of those famed transactions has happened or will happen, this once between Samsung and Sony. The two companies used to work on the S-LCD joint business, and technically still do. Now, though, Samsung has decided to assume ownership of the whole thing, which means it has to pay Sony quite a bi...

27 December 2011
06:00 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

NEC Has a 24-Inch WUXGA LCD Monitor of Its Own Prepared

Not often does a monitor get released that, while featuring the fairly common widescreen form factor, has a native resolution different from Full HD. NEC is getting ready for the start of a new year just like everyone else, but the product now in sight is one that won't be at the 2012 edition of CES (Consumer E...

22 December 2011
09:11 GMT

Flat-Panel TVs Have Lowest Prices in Eight Months

Television sets, those with flat panels at any rate, used to have quite hefty prices back in the second quarter of 2011, but that situation no longer applies. In fact, not only does the situation no longer apply, but one might say it made a 180 degree-turn. Due to a combination of economic uncertainty and frantic ...

21 December 2011
13:21 GMT

Sharp Plans to Send 90-Inch LCD TVs to the US, Among Other Things

You'd think that a 45-inch or 50-inch TV was big, and that 60-70-inch ones were huge, but that way of thinking may not survive the news of what Sharp has planned for the world.Sharp has a history of big panels, but the ones it will send to the US next year (2012) are going to leave pretty much all of them in the...

19 December 2011
03:54 GMT

These Wrist Watches Have Touchscreens and LEDs

We saw some pretty off the wall watch ideas over the years, but Tokyoflash may have managed to make some wrist watches that, while not quite as off the wall, are easy to classify as overkill. Unless you really like LCDs, LEDs and touchscreens, that is. Basically, the company made the Kisai On Air Black LED Watch an...

15 December 2011
04:02 GMT

Samsung Optical Sensor in Pixel LCD Has Advanced Touch Support

People may or may not remember when we drew attention to the SUR40 touch surface, the one over here. Samsung is now mass producing the 40-inch LCD that it is equipped with and which is quite advanced as far as touchscreens go. The panel boasts the Optical Sensor in Pixel technology, which lets the screen use infra...

1 December 2011
07:23 GMT

LCDs Could Be a Good Buy This Christmas Too

This might not be immediately visible to the casual consumer, but liquid crystal display sales have been sluggish lately. In fact, it's not easy at all to realize that monitors and TVs have been going through less than stellar times, not with forecasts about impending Smart TV success, although hearing about t...

23 November 2011
11:17 GMT

Prices Fall, There Are Too Many 3D LCD TVs Waiting to Be Bought

It so happens that DRAM products aren't the only ones suffering from oversupply, as DisplaySearch discovered that 3D LCD TVs are in a similar bind, though perhaps not as tight. 3D LCD HDTVs may have been among the candidates for the most convenient holiday purchases, if they'd been closer to the mainstrea...

23 November 2011
04:52 GMT

LCD TVs May Drop in Sales for the First Time Ever in 2011

Even with new display sizes being developed and marketed, there are high chances that 2011 will become the first year when LCD TVs sell less than in the previous one. It appears that oversupply concerns are great enough that some people, market watchers as Digitmes calls them, aren't very optimistic about 2011...

8 November 2011
05:19 GMT

NEC 46-inch X462HB LCD Comes in December, 2011

NEC is again releasing the things it is known for far and wide, namely displays, or one of them at least, expanding the X Series of professional-grade panels. The new display that NEC has created is not some new monitor or TV, though most of its capabilities are similar. Instead, it is a professional LCD intended ...

2 November 2011
10:42 GMT

Samsung Slammed in Court Again,This Time for LCD Price Fixing

Continuing the somewhat worrisome trend of gaining less than stellar results in the courtroom, Samsung has been fined again, albeit not alone, this time by the Korea FTC. Samsung, along with five other companies, will have to pay a fine of US$175 million, which is about the same as 127.69 million Euro. This is be...

1 November 2011
06:16 GMT

NEC Creates SpectraSensor pro Colorimeter for SpectraViewII Series Displays

NEC decided it was time for an image quality upgrade on some of its displays, so it created the SpectraSensor pro colorimeter. Available now, it has a street price estimated at $199, which more or less translates into 141.75 Euro. It has a 1-year limited warranty as well. In fact, NEC will start integrating the n...

27 October 2011
10:28 GMT

Corning Outdoes Itself Again with Lotus Glass

One might think that inventing a new display material wouldn't be such a big deal, but Corning made it a big deal once and, now, did it a second time. Corning made an official announcement in which it reveals that it invented a new type of glass that will have more than one benefit when used in displays. Liqu...

26 October 2011
09:56 GMT

Acer Held Back on the LEDs When It Made the AT3218MF HDTV

Acer may not be going through its best year right now, but that doesn't mean it is going to lay off on launching new things any time soon, even displays that play things more conservatively and don't jump at LED backlights. The new AT3218MF from Acer is one of the lessening number of panels that don'...

24 October 2011
10:35 GMT

Samsung and Cheil Use Transparent LCDs on South Korean Subway Stations

It might not be the big leap into a world of living buildings with window displays, but the first of the baby steps has been taken now that Samsung and Cheil Worldwide have started to install transparent LCDs into public places. This report says that Samsung and Cheil Worldwide have begun to install transparent dis...

24 October 2011
05:52 GMT

Toshiba Gets Into Tablet Display Action with 6.1-Inch Panel

Toshiba is known for a lot of things, like batteries and being the world's third greatest HDD supplier and, soon, it may be known as maker of tablet screens as well, maybe with glasses-free 3D support. One thing that is sure to help any company's finances over the next few years is for them to have some s...

21 October 2011
03:48 GMT

Sony Launches Stereoscopic PlayStation 3D Display in November

It appears that TVs and monitors aren't the only consumer panels that exist, or will exist, on the IT market, as soon as November 13, 2011 comes around at least. Sony is known for many things, like its display range, consumer electronics, its game consoles and getting hacked. Apparently, someone really has it...

20 October 2011
07:33 GMT

LG Getting Close to Eliminatig TV Bezels, New 55-inch Panel Debuts

LG, being one of those companies that likes to have a big name on the display industry, released a new LCD that has an advantage in a certain area, even if consumers aren't going to enjoy it directly that often, in the short term at least.LG has proven that it has made it something of a personal quest to create...

18 October 2011
08:17 GMT

23-Inch iiyama ProLite Monitor Surfaces, Uses an IPS Panel

Coming to expand its collection of liquid crystal displays, iiyama revealed a new monitor, one that pairs an IPS panel with LED backlighting, for both clarity and efficiency. The new monitor from iiyama surfaced on the web a short while ago, showing off its yet-unavailable assets. The IPS panel is the most ob...

13 October 2011
04:58 GMT

1.6 Million Sold Sony Bravia LCDs Might Go Up in Flames

Fire hazards sometimes show up in faulty devices, and Sony seems to be going through such an episode after 11 incidents of smoking or melting were reported in Japan. Owners of Sony Bravia liquid crystal displays might find the product information option in the Set-Up menu of their Bravia LCDs very useful during t...

12 October 2011
07:23 GMT

Hanns-G Hangs Back with Entry-Level HK241DPB Monitor

The media has been busy with news about LED displays and future technologies, but Hanns-G decided to deliberately lag behind the current, so as to offer entry-level customers a fairly inexpensive Full HD monitor. LED backlights may have reached the point where they don't add much of a price premium to reason...

11 October 2011
03:25 GMT

LG Claims to Have Made the Least Power-Hungry LCD Yet

LG made many monitors and TVs over the years and, apparently, none of them were quite up to its standard as far as energy efficiency goes, since the company went out of its way to make one that can boast of being the best in that area. Saying that a product is the world's greatest in something, or the first ...

10 October 2011
07:26 GMT

Ultra-Thin Notebooks Giving Display Makers a Headache

Notebook vendors seem eager to get touch support onto notebooks as a standard feature, such as it is, but this isn't exactly something as easy as it sounds, especially for the people actually tasked with making the screens in question. By now, the fact that ultrabooks will, or are hoped, to start a new age f...

6 October 2011
09:12 GMT

Planar Intros Range of 42 to 65-Inch LCD Displays

Planar issued an official press release through which it introduces no less than six new, large-sized liquid crystal displays, dubbed the PS-Series and measuring 42 to 65 inches. The Planar PS-Series of displays offers a wide range of displays for commercial and digital signage applications. With a price as lo...

4 October 2011
10:48 GMT

NEC Launches the 55-inch V551 and V551-AVT Commercial LCDs

NEC has once again shown its mettle on the market for large, commercial displays, expanding the V Series with the addition of the V551 and V551-AVT, both of which measure 55 inches in diagonal. Since a new month has begun, NEC decided to go ahead and launch a new pair of liquid crystal displays. Added to the V...

3 October 2011
09:35 GMT

LCDs Begin to Emulate the Weak Sales of DRAM

It appears that the segment of memory chips might soon be joined by that of large-size liquid crystal display panels in the camp of those whom economy does not favor. Users are probably well aware of all the troubles affecting the market of DRAM memory. After all, the past couple of weeks, despite the short rebou...

30 September 2011
11:02 GMT

Sharp Goes from Large to Huge with New 80-Inch HDTV

The market for TVs is welcoming what is one of the biggest displays ever made, for the consumer market that is, though there is little chance of anyone save the wealthy to actually get it.Sharp is one of the best established suppliers of TVs in the world and, though it accounts for just a small part of its shipment ...

28 September 2011
05:47 GMT

Branded LCD Monitor Vendors Unsure of How to Go About 2012 Orders

LCD monitors vendors usually stick to a sort of schedule when placing orders, but it looks like the latest string of this has seen a delay, according to market rumors. Recent events turned out to have had consequences more far-reaching than some had expected. The fact that the world economy has yet to truly r...

23 September 2011
09:44 GMT

New LED LCD from ViewSonic Is 3.5cm-Thin (1.4-Inch)

ViewSonic continues in its role of display supplier with it newest monitor, a LED-backlit display whose most notable trait is the thickness, or lack thereof. As far as the IT market goes, ViewSonic has quite a varied portfolio (it even announced Android tablets), even if it is best known, in some circles at least...

21 September 2011
09:34 GMT

USB-Powered Monitor from AOC Incoming

Displays don't usually come in an USB-connected package, but AOC created one of these things anyway, giving it the name of e1649fwu and HDCP compatibility, among other things.The Universal Serial Bus is thus called because, with some effort, any piece of computer hardware, and devices of other sorts, can be des...

21 September 2011
03:24 GMT

BenQ Releases New 27-Inch Full HD Monitor

HP may have launched a bunch of new displays not long ago, but it didn't have anything new for the consumer market, an area that BenQ was, it turns out, all too eager to address via an announcement of its own.It appears that there really is no end to the newer, better and, in some cases, cheaper display solutio...

15 September 2011
05:56 GMT

HP Launches Extensive New Range of LCDs

HP already has a large collection of display solutions, but this did not stop it from announcing seven more, all of them set to start shipping either this or next month. Coming to offer something to professionals, business users and the digital signage segment, HP built some new displays. The ones for digital ...

15 September 2011
05:24 GMT

Green House Monitor Line Grows

Coming to offer its own two cents on the display market, Green House chose, this once, to bring forth an LCD that has more than decent specs while still not consuming too much energy. As always, the display market is getting updated, with new monitors and TVs, plus other sorts of panels, debuting on a regular bas...

12 September 2011
04:08 GMT

First Half of 2011 Has Samsung as Best Selling TV Brand

There are many things that Samsung is known for around the world, but US users might just know of it best through its presence on the TV front, especially after the first half of this year. One thing about Samsung is that it has a stake in many of the IT industry's fields, unlike Intel or AMD, who stick to o...

10 September 2011
03:41 GMT

NEC V-Series Commercial Displays Get Integrated Tuner

While HP is unleashing all-in-one after all-in-one, NEC is extending a product series of its own, upgrading a certain display, one that was and is servicing the public sector as part of the V series. Consumers have been given more than enough display to gaze upon during the IFA 2011 trade show, each of them more ...

7 September 2011
10:29 GMT


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