Pioneer gets to absolute black with plasma prototype
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It's not just black. It's deep, penetrating black in the new Kuro concept TV. That means better contrast.
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(InfoWorld) - Poor sales of PDP (plasma display panel) televisions in the U.S. over the year-end holiday period have forced Pioneer to postpone planned investment in a new PDP factory in Japan, it said Wednesday. The company had been planning to build a new plant west of Tokyo. It did not say when the plant will be built. Pioneer's sales of home electronics sales dropped 2 percent to Â¥113 billion ($928 million) for the last three months of the year, it said. PDP sales fell about 10 percent, due to a substantial drop in sales of PDP TVs made by Pioneer for other companies. Sales of sets sold under its own name also fell in Japan, but increased in Europe. The flat-panel TV market is one of the most fiercely competitive in the consumer electronics business, and prices have been dropping fast. Not only are companies competing against each other, but so are technologies: PDP is battling with LCD (liquid crystal display). In the big-screen TV market PDP lost ground to LCD in the fourth quarter, market analyst DisplaySearch said Tuesday. PDP shipments in the quarter were 15 percent lower than the makers' aggregate forecast, and the lower-than-expected unit growth meant the first year-on-year decline in PDP revenue to date, DisplaySearch said. For the first quarter of 2007, Pioneer said it expects to make fewer plasma displays, and also spend more money promoting them to consumers. Because of that and the poor results in the previous quarter, the company lowered its financial forecast for the full year. It reduced its operating revenue forecast by Â¥20 billion to Â¥800 billion and cut its net profit forecast in half to Â¥5 billion. Both forecasts are still well above last year's results.
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Demo shows the chip running a Java applet, a browser and displaying some video at the same time.
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Electronics maker unveils an 80-inch plasma display TV.
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Color display and photo support can't save oddly designed player.
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(InfoWorld) - Sharp raised the bar for high-definition LCD (liquid crystal display) screens this week with the demonstration of 64-inch prototype with a resolution of 4,096 pixels by 2,160 pixels -- four times higher than current high-definition displays. The screen, the first such prototype developed by Sharp, was on display this week at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. While projection display systems have been developed that can match the resolution of Sharp's latest prototype, this is the first time that an LCD has been produced with a resolution this high, said Toshiyuki Matsumara, a company spokesman. The Sharp prototype's resolution tops that of a screen demonstrated last year by Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics. That display, unveiled last year in Yokohama, Japan, measured 56 inches across the diagonal and had a resolution of 3,840 pixels by 2,160 pixels. Sharp developed the prototype display to keep up with changes in the motion picture industry, Matsumara said. As studios move from film to digital media, resolutions will go higher and displays will need to keep up, he said. Prototype display technologies have been a highlight of this year's Ceatec exhibition. Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. demonstrated a television with a 55-inch SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) screen. The screens, which offer higher contrast and lower power consumption than other flat-panel technologies, will enter production next year. Japan's public broadcaster, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), showed a system it calls Super Hi-Vision that offers a 16:9 aspect ratio picture with 4,320 horizontal lines -- double that of Sharp's prototype. The NHK system, which has been demonstrated before, is still under development.
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Out of the lab and into the living room; Samsung's plasma in the real world Living Room Review You know how it is - you're sitting one day in front of your trusty CRT watching Apocalypse Now when you're suddenly struck by the feeling that you really aren't getting the full-fat cinematic experience.â¦
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SUN ANNOUNCED THE UltraSPARC IV+ this morning, most probably the last of its line. Sun will be taking a new direction from this point on, with the new Fujitsu co-developed chips being a definite step sideways
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com December 22, 2004, 1:59 PM PT. Sony Electronics issued a statement Wednesday refuting reports that it&#39;s getting out of the plasma TV business.
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Blog: Alienware offers up its chassis as a barebones kit
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Cambridge Display Technology gets off to a bad start.
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Apple got there first? And it sounded such a smart idea too. Microsoft and Mitsubishi are developing a 'translucent' touchscreen. The idea: touching the back of the panel controls user interface elements displayed on the front. Cute, but the question to be asked is: where do all the electronics go?â¦
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Fujitsu performs euthanasia on plasma screen range Fujitsu has announced that it will end production of plasma screens due to poor profitability. The Japan-based company was the first to commercially introduce this technology in 1992, but sales of plasma TVs have been falling behind those for LCDs.â¦
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Burn baby burn Rayguns are, um, on fire lately, with the US Army dishing out early contracts in its monster truck laser cannon race, Boeing planning a rather unimpressive blaster-equipped Humvee and the famous American nuke-toasting jumbo jet continuing to make headlines. Now the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon war-nerd bureau which loves nothing better than a long shot, has joined in.â¦
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Observing the image of a faint object that lies close to a star is a demanding task as the object is generally hidden in the glare of the star. Characterising this object, by taking spectra, is an even harder challenge.
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Will the competing next-generation optical disc standards ever meet in the same device? Not for now, it seems.
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The energy-hog televisions are losing ground to their cheaper counterparts. But developers hope that will change with improved technologies.