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“South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. and Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. filed lawsuits against each other last year, claiming infringements on patents related to plasma technology. Thesuits have led to a halt of imports of LG panels into Japan and Matsushita panels to South Korea. The two companies have been holding talks and are expected to agree on a settlement that would require LG to pay royalties to Matsushita… Read More

Thomson announced that it will support next-generation DVD formats by manufacturing HD DVD and Blu-ray discs through its Technicolor business and providing consumer HD DVD players through its Thomsonand RCA brands. Thomson, which is also a founding member of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), will continue to participate and support the development and production of the Blu-ray Disc format. The BDA regroups over 70 companies, including Sony,… Read More

“Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. filed the lawsuit in Tokyo District Court against LG Electronics Inc. and a similar request with Japanese customs authorities on Monday, company spokesman Yoshihiro Kitadeya said from Osaka, where Matsushita is based. Mr. Kitadeya said Matsushita has been in talks for a year, demanding that South Korea's LG Electronics pay royalties on two patents he says are being violated in LG's… Read More

Panasonic is the best-known brand of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. With their striking, minimalist designs and perfectly flat screens, the new Onyx XVS series plasma sets seem to projectimages in mid-air, making the Onyx XVS experience a dramatic departure from conventional television. “The entire front panel is masked by a single pane of glass, with no exposed hardware,” explains Ed Wolff, Vice President of… Read More

The group, which also includes International Business Machines Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., will not have any technology to license until the end of the year. But the announcement, released late on Tuesday, marks a shift in the way the movie industry has reacted to the threat of online piracy of its films. Current DVDs are protected by a system called CSS, for… Read More

Anticipating a wave of entries of Blu-ray Disc-based products in the coming months, Panasonic has established a laboratory in Osaka to facilitate companies adopting the format and entering the market.  The Blu-ray Disc Founders, which will be re-incorporated into the Blu-ray Disc Association later this year, developed a format to enable rewriting, recording and playback of high-definition TV (HDTV) and other digital content… Read More

The Osaka-based company said it would boost annual output capacity of DVD recorder pickups, which are selling well in step with rising demand for DVD recorders, to 35 million units in the business year starting in April from 15 million units this year. “We've put a lot of energy into developing pickups and lasers for CD-ROMs, DVDs and now recordable DVDs,” Sanyo President Yukinori Kuwano told a news conference. “Now… Read More

Sony spokeswoman Junko Sato said Sony planned an announcement about mini-disc technology and products Thursday but said parts of the newspaper report were inaccurate. She did not elaborate. The report said Sony plans to start selling the mini-discs and recorders this year and will approach other makers to adopt the technology, including rival Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., producer of the Panasonic brand. The new disc is the same… Read More

The proposal includes both read-only and rewritable formats, but only the ROM format in its 0.9 version was approved by the committee during meetings last week by a vote of 8-6. The HD DVD format is a violet laser-based optical disk system with a capacity of 15-20 Gbyte per side using the same disk structure as current DVD disks. As the next-generation optical disk system using a violet laser, nine consumer electronics… Read More

A Motorola spokeswoman said its partner in the deal, Hong Kong-listed Proview International Holdings Ltd.  , would make the products, which would be sold in China before being launched globally under the Motorola brand. “Our consumer research tells us that we have a brand that is very valuable, and that consumers would be keen to buy other products beyond the core products,” Shelagh Lester-Smith told Reuters on Tuesday.… Read More

The offering from the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant underlines the intensifying competition in the industry to sell the idea of home digital entertainment that introduces computer functions from the office into the living room. The PSX, which is about the size of the PlayStation 2, is set to go on sale in Japan late this year for 79,800 yen ($720) for the version with a 160 gigabyte hard disk drive that can record about 200… Read More

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced the establishment of the 'CE Linux Forum (CELF)'. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux [*2] to meet the needs of CE [*1] products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF… Read More

Microsoft Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) today announced they are expanding the HighMAT specifications to support all major writable DVD media formats (DVD-RAM and other recordable DVD formats) for exchanging digital audio, pictures and video files between personal computers and consumer electronics devices in addition to CDs. The companies plan to support the new technology for DVDs in their respective product… Read More