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The BDA supports the continued development and promotion of the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format.
Earlier this year, membership was opened to organizations interested in promoting the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format. The growth in membership follows the recent announcement by Sony that PlayStation 3 will support the Blu-ray Disc format and by Twentieth Century Fox that it would join the Association as a member of its Board of Directors.
Royal Philips Electronics is extending its product range with the new Digital Pocket Memo 9450 VC with Voice Command. This dictation device clearly underlines Philips’ ongoing strategy to expand its leadership in the area of digital dictation, helping professionals simply work smarter.
The Digital Pocket Memo 9450 VC with Voice Command is ideal for use in dedicated application and workflow environments. Existing digital dictation benefits are now enhanced by the ability to assign patient/client or work type codes to a dictation by simply speaking them. This unique feature allows fast and convenient marking of dictation files for better identification, transcription and archiving later in the workflow process. In addition, several features based on end-user requirements have been incorporated. These make dictation and document processing easier, more efficient and convenient.
The Blu-ray Disc Founders approved the BD-ROM physical specification within the general timeframe originally outlined in the BD-ROM development roadmap. The completion of the physical specification is an important step because it provides disc manufacturers with the information they need to prepare their BD-ROM disc production lines.
“Blu-ray Disc (BD) is on schedule for companies to introduce BD-ROM players, drives and prerecorded software to consumers beginning in late 2005,” said Maureen Weber, general manager of HP’s Optical Storage Solutions Business. “Given the strong support from consumer electronics, PC and media manufacturers for BD, a wide variety of products is expected to eventually be available in every segment of the market.”
The number one LCD manufacturer will now get a boost from its corporate giant’s latest venture, an LCD component supply company. LG Corp. has created a new firm called Lumsen Co., which is to supply LCD driver chips to LG Philips LCD.
The new company is set to start mass-production this year. LG Philips LCD is a 50/50 joint-venture between LG Electronics and Royal Philips Electronics.
Source: AFP Technology.
An organic EL display researcher said, “As concerns the quality of the picture, this is a fine panel.”
Another researcher said, “I found its uniform brightness to be highly attractive.”
Overall, its picture quality was evaluated highly by the attendees at the event.
Recently, electronics makers including Samsung are successively disclosing their prototypes of organic EL displays, apparently focusing on the TV application. These prototypes include a 40-inch model of Seiko Epson Corp and a 13-inch model of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands.
Read more at NEAsia
The 3GSM show is the largest 3G cellular event in the world. In 2003 there were some 26.000 attendees and 576 exhibitors.
It prides itself on being a showcase for the latest thinking and technology in the cellular space. All aspects of cellular communications are represented, however the focus is on the end-user.
Royal Philips Electronics is showcasing the following products:
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