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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

IFA 2011: Close Look at 8K4K Sharp Super LCD

Sharp definitely decided to make a big showing at this year's IFA trade show, having actually put up a display that easily qualifies as one of, really the largest Super Hi-Vision LCD in the world.People might think Full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) is already a high enough image quality, but they might ...

5 September 2011
05:52 GMT

LG Spending Targets for 2012 Fall Sharply

LG may have launched two new monitors just a short time ago, but the LCD market is, overall, not doing too well, a fact reflected in how the company decided to revise its financial expectations for next year.Liquid crystal displays are everywhere nowadays, the same way virtual memory server mostly any electronic out...

29 August 2011
10:50 GMT

ViewSonic 27-Inch Monitors Reach America Next Week

Dell isn't the only company launching displays these days, as ViewSonic also completed a pair, one that is almost ready to start shipping in both the Northern and Southern Americas.Users may or may not have learned that Dell just updated its collection of ultrathin monitors.It so happens that the company is not...

29 August 2011
09:19 GMT

Ultra-Slim Dell Monitor Listed Online

Dell is always working on something or other, so one can easily understand why hardly a week goes by without it presenting a new product, or at least announcing the impending arrival of, for example, monitors.Dell got quite the piece of good news recently, one that bodes well for its whole PC business.Basically, HP ...

29 August 2011
08:48 GMT

23-Inch LG Monitors Presented, IFA Awaits

People may or may not know that the IFA trade show is on the way, but IT players definitely do, though not all are reacting by hoarding their products, since LG came out and launched a pair of LCDs instead of waiting.Whenever an IT electronics show approaches, IT companies have a tendency to slow down in their produ...

29 August 2011
03:41 GMT

Monitor Duo from iiyama Joins the ProLite Series

Japanese company iiyama has had the ProLite series of monitors out and selling for a long time, so it is no shock to see two new models joining the ranks of this product series, even if availability is restricted to just one country, for now at least.On the market of monitors, things have evolved over the past years...

22 August 2011
04:28 GMT

ViewSonic Aims High on LED-Backlit LCD Market

ViewSonic did say, on previous occasions, that it would focus on LED backlighting from now on, and the latest reports regarding its plans for this segment have now emerged.Before LED backlighting began to be experimented with, CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lights) were the norm.Then again, to a certain extent, they...

12 August 2011
11:04 GMT

Using LCD Screens to Power Up Mobile Devices

A group of engineers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that smartphones and laptops of the future may be capable of replenishing their batteries from the environment. The team is working on a method of transforming the devices' LCD screens into energy-harvesting instruments.According to...

10 August 2011
02:57 GMT

Perceptive Pixel 82-Inch Full HD LCD Goes Multi-Touch

There are many ways that a display can succeed in standing out from the fold and Perceptive Pixel may have just chosen the most straightforward of the lot, that being sheer size.A liquid crystal display can, in most cases, qualify as large format from even just 50-55 inches in diagonal upwards.However, even those bi...

9 August 2011
10:55 GMT

Sharp Announces Elite LCD TVs For the Rich

A rich feature set and high performance usually targets equally rich prospective customers, but it looks like Sharp really took things up to eleven by resurrecting the Elide brand of LCD TVs. One would have thought that the 7-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet would be enough of an attention bringer for its maker, but it l...

4 August 2011
10:20 GMT

Three Thin and New CTL Monitors Made Official

The display industry is one that has been more or less doing well, unlike that of DRAM chips, so it is not so surprising to learn that CTL decided to formally launch a trio of its own.The past year has seen LED-backlit displays gain a significantly larger market share than before, as CCFL models lost their price adv...

4 August 2011
09:52 GMT

Lenovo Also Produces New LS Series Monitors

Lenovo may have unleashed a new set of desktops not long ago, but that is not all it has been up to, as the company also delivered some monitors to complement them in whatever tasks business users give them.If there is anything that all computers have in common, not counting laptops and all-in-ones, is that they nee...

3 August 2011
08:17 GMT

Company Decides to Give Up on DRAM Business

The past few quarters have seen much talk about how things have being going from bad to worse on the DRAM industry, and it looks like they might have gotten serious enough that ChipMOS decided to phase out its packaging and testing business altogether. The semiconductor industry may not be doing too badly overall...

16 July 2011
06:55 GMT

Freescale Integrates Display Controllers Inside ARM Application Chips

Large computing devices rely on a combination of motherboard, CPU and auxiliary components to function, but smaller devices need more integrated solutions, like Freescale's i.MX, which just got better.Among other things, Freescale deals in application processors for e-readers, embedded devices and various consu...

11 July 2011
09:25 GMT

AIS Presents Rugged LCDs and Mobile Systems for the Military

Military and marine applications have their own standards for what a fitting display and computing product is, and AIS did its best to meet those rigorous demands when it built the new collection of ruggedized LCDs.American Industrial Systems Inc., a certified supplier and manufacturer of military & marine grade emb...

5 July 2011
05:29 GMT

Samsung's 2011 LCD and Flash Demand Is Weak

Reports and rumors always emerge in regards to the probable marketing performance of a company or product, and it looks like Samsung is one of the latest to come under this type of scrutiny.Samsung may be seeing great results form its tablet initiative, but its other business outlets don't seem to be doing as w...

5 July 2011
03:59 GMT

LED-Backlit LCD TVs Not as Successful as Expected

It appears that certain predictions in regards to the market of LED-backlit TVs have proven to have been slightly too optimistic, now that reports show a lack of acceleration in orders.One in a while, market analysts take a look at one part of the IT market, or the IT industry as a whole, and try to predict how thin...

4 July 2011
09:30 GMT

LCD Makers Start to Cut Back on Orders

It appears that the semiconductor market is not the only one suffering from oversupply and low sales, as reports also reveal that the liquid crystal display segment is dealing with some issues of its own. Price drops are always a welcome development on the IT market, as far as the customer base is concerned at le...

2 July 2011
06:36 GMT

LCD Displays Get More Expensive

While the electronics market is said to be on the fairly quick mend, price shifts are always happening, although some are more evident than others, and more far-reaching, like what is about to occur on the LCD segment.Not long ago, market analyst firm iSuppli reached the conclusion that the effects that the Japan di...

30 June 2011
10:53 GMT

Three New ViewSonic Monitors Released

Being the maker of various display solutions that it is, ViewSonic decided to update its extensive product portfolio with three new members, all of which have more or less similar specifications beyond the resolution and diagonal length.The past couple of weeks have definitely not come and gone without ViewSonic mak...

29 June 2011
04:08 GMT

New LCD from I-O Data Is Extra Durable

It seems that, instead of image quality, I-O Data focused on the aspect of physical endurance when it built its newest liquid crystal display monitor, one dubbed LCD-AD202XW-P.Monitors aren't exactly the most fragile things in the world, but they can still get covered in fingerprints and scratch marks, particul...

22 June 2011
04:58 GMT

Mitsubishi IPS Monitor Line Grows by One

It looks like Mitsubishi decided to unleash a monitor which looks common on the outside yet is anything but that on the inside, particularly owed to the existence of an IPS panel.When it comes to the display industry, there are several technologies that can be used, like liquid crystal, Plasma, OLED, AMOLED etc.Also...

20 June 2011
07:39 GMT

Alleged Price Fixing Gets Toshiba and 13 Others Sued

There have been many lawsuits involving entities from the IT industry, and there still are, so it isn't that surprising to hear of a new one sprouting up, although, true enough, the recent charges alleging price fixing are aimed at quite the number of companies.One thing that the IT industry, much like any othe...

17 June 2011
09:19 GMT

Tablet Displays Unsurprisingly Sell Better and Better

Even though IT entities are divided in terms of what to expect from the tablet and laptop markets, one thing, at least, is clear, that being that tablet sales have gone up and, thus, so have those of LCD panels.Quite a bit of talk surrounding the tablet and overall laptop industry has been going around the web recen...

17 June 2011
08:18 GMT


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