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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

“The company further plans to commercialise a 4-layer 100Gbyte version in 2007, said Sony spokesman Taro Takamine. “The advantage of Blu-ray over DVD is definitely capacity and we are extending our multilayer performance. The 8-layer is a technology demonstration. We haven't decided when we are going to commercialise it yet,” Takamine said. The development is the fourth recent boost for the format as it wrestles with… Read More

Matsushita Electric Industrial, better known by its Panasonic brand name, will unveil its first Blu-ray Disc recorder next week, the Osaka, Japan-based company says.   The new machine is being launched to capture consumer demand for recording of high-definition television coverage of this year's Olympic Games, which begin on August 11, Matsushita says. The new recorder will be unveiled on June 30 in Tokyo. Japanese public… 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 companies are coming together under the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA), formation of which will be announced later Monday, according to Matsushita Electric Industrial. The Japanese company, better known by its Panasonic brand name, is the world's largest consumer electronics company and one of the founding members of MoCA. Other members include Toshiba, computer networking company Cisco Systems, cable TV network operator… 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