Tag archive: panel

TVs using OLED screens are about to take a big leap forward, with an emphasis on the word “big,” as LG has announced it'll be showing off a new 55-inch OLED television — billed as the world's largest — at CES 2012 in January. LG debuted the world's thinnest OLED TV at the IFA show back in August 2010, with their 2.9mm deep 31-inch model. Up until now, OLED screens have been more commonplace on… Read More

Anyone who's set up a home theater with surround sound knows what a pain setup and calibration can be. First of all, the idea of surround sound is great until you try to get speakers set up around your bookshelves, umbrella stands, pet beds, end tables, lamps, and (let's not forget) furniture. Once the speakers are set in no-doubt less-than-ideal spots, you get to spend hours calibrating your audio. Just when it sounds great,… Read More

Never let it be said the digital media revolution is bypassing the car audio industry: Blaupunkt has just taken the wraps off its new Melbourne SD27 car stereo system. Instead of offering a traditional CD player/changer or even a dock for those iPod things all the kids are carrying, the Melbourne SD27 opts for a front-panel auxilliary input, and an SD/MMC card slot so owners can use a PC to load up removable media with their tunes, then and… Read More

New research out this week from the Consumer Electronics Association suggests a growing number of consumers are embracing flat panel televisions as the wave of the future. This, with other types of televisions thrown in as well, comes in to the estimated tune of $22 billion worth of TVs shipping before year's end. The CEA's numbers, said the trade group, indicate that while only 17 percent of consumers currently own a flat panel… Read More

Niles Audio, a maker of audio/video custom installation products, earlier this week announced a new line of wall mounted loudspeakers which are designed to accompany the look and feel of plasma and flat panel displays. The PHD Plasma High Definition models, said Niles, can be installed as main, center or surround channel loudspeakers in home theater configurations or as left and right channels for traditional television viewing. All… Read More

Sony has some new flat panel LCD HDTVs shipping today which round out their

According to Forbes.com, researchers from SonyCorp and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research developed a highly flexible and thin display panel. It's capable of being rolled up like a piece of paper and has an industry-high resolution of 79dpi. The Nihon Keizai Shimbum reported the news without citing sources. Sony aims to commercialize products based on the new display technology, applying it to televisions and mobile… Read More

Quote from the review at HardOCP: “The SN25P is Shuttle's latest foray in to the Athlon64 socket 939 market. This system is designed with the much hyped NVIDIA nForce4 MCP chipset, supporting all Athlon64-based socket 939 CPUs, DDR RAM modules operating in Dual Channel mode, and PCI Express x16 type video cards. Being a small form factor solution means that the SN25P requires the minimum amount of components for a functioning… Read More

“Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., a display manufacturing company of the Samsung group, has developed a 102-in. plasma display panel, eclipsing an 80-in. panel the company announced in January. The 102-in. panel features resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, a brightness of 1,000 candelas, and a contrast of 2,000 to 1.” Read more at EETimes

The new FLC58UWC8V LCD panel provides a contrast ratio of 600:1, along with brightness of 400-nits, and a fast response time of just 12ms, combined rise and fall. Native panel resolution is 1,920 pixels wide by 1,200 pixels high. The LCD's viewing angle is more than 170 degrees in both vertical and horizontal directions. The LCD panel, which has a 23-inch diagonal display area, measures 523.4 x 335.6 x 41mm and weighs 2,900 grams.… Read More

“John C.K. Sham, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “Recently, we announced the receipt of purchase orders for our 17″ and 30″ flat panel high-definition LCD TVs. Today, we are pleased to announce the initial shipment on those orders of our Home Touch 17″ flat panel high-definition LCD TV to a customer in the United States, who plans to market them under the Yahoo! brand. We believe this initial… Read More

“The 65-inch model has a 6.22 million dot panel and is capable of displaying a full high-definition picture at 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels, according to Yasutaroh Tanno, a member of the Sharp's LCD digital systems division. The company has hand-made only three prototype models so far and won't say when a TV based on the panel will go on sale, he says. The models are made on the company's sixth-generation LCD… Read More

LCD TV sales reached an estimated five million units in 2003 and are expected to break ten million by 2005. However, sales of LCD TVs at the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004 were disappointing, leaving channel players with large inventories. However, disappointing sales failed to slow continued investment in next generation lines for LCD TV panels, heating up competition in the LCD TV panel market. This study examines product… Read More

The increased commitment to those categories, along with wireless and home networking, will come at the expense of analog TV, conventional audio and PDAs, whose floor space and inventory levels will be reduced, senior executives said. The news came in a conference call that followed the release of the company's first fiscal quarter earnings. VP/general merchandise manager Ron Boire described a “major reset” for Best… Read More

Dubbed the LocationFree TV, the unit is based on an LCD panel and an integrated tri-mode Wi-Fi adaptor. Sony will offer two models, one with a 12in, 800 x 600 display, the other a more portable 7in, 800 x 480 panel. The former contains all sorts of TV-derived image processing technology to anti-alias jagged lines, provide motion compensation and offer picture-in-picture playback. There's “3D Y/C separation circuitry for clear,… Read More