LG goes small with latest plasma
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Facing growing competition from LCDs and coming OLEDs, it goes after the more affordable 32-inch market.
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Looking to beef up interest in plasma, Hitachi makes a thin one, which the company will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's Via TechnologiesÂ has a knack for making motherboards smaller, and its latest design pushes the boundary of what's possible further than ever before. Called Mobile ITX, the new motherboard measures 7.5 centimeters by 4.5 cm -- roughly the same size as a namecard -- and includes all of the components required by a computer, including a Via C7 processor, a chip set with integrated graphics and video capabilities, and memory. The new motherboard design, which should hit markets next year, will make possible a range of small, powerful computers, such as "super smartphones," said Richard Brown, Via's president of corporate marketing, in an interview. Key to the motherboard's success is theÂ C7 processor. Brown didn't specify which version the board will use, but said the chip consumes 0.25 watts of power or less when running. "And that's not when the system is idling," he said. Via CEO Wenchi Chen plans to announce the new motherboard design on Wednesday at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. While Via is much smaller than Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the company has a proven ability to spot where industry trends are headed before larger companies catch on. For example, Via was pushing the idea of low-power computing, and performance per watt as an important measure, at a time when Intel and AMD were still focused on clock speeds. In the motherboard space, Via was the developer ofÂ Mini-ITX, a small form factor that measures 17 cm by 17 cm. In recent years, Mini-ITX has become an informal standard. Boards based on the same dimensions are now used with chips from AMD and Intel.
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New at CES: the 45-millimeter LG60 LCD, an ultramobile PC, and mobile broadcasting device.
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Paper thin CES on Video Up close with Samsung's size-zero 52in LCD TV prototype...â¦
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If mobile phones are getting too small for your fingers or eyes, a Dutch company called Polymer Vision has a unique solution. It announced today a phone with a foldable screen that offers a display larger than the device itself.
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Ultra-thin is in for many of the new TVs shown at the CEDIA trade show this week.
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South Korea's LG Electronics Inc   introduced on Wednesday an updated version of its  high-definition DVD player that supports both Blu-ray and HD  DVD, offering a possible solution to the format war.
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Later this year some LG models, available worldwide, will be able to view and upload videos to YouTube.
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LG Electronics' plasma business is improving steadily and the display division hopes to post a single-digit operating profit margin by the end of the year, the head of its display business said on Sunday.
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Plasma panels are losing flat-screen battle to LCDs, research shows. If history has a say, more price cuts are on the way.
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Mobintech, a Denmark-based group, believes it has found the solution to the mobile phone industry's problem of trying to offer television and video services on a tiny screen.
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Wired.com's Jose Fermoso takes a look at Panasonic's record-setting 150-inch plasma TV set, in this short video from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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(InfoWorld) - lTwo of the world's biggest flat-panel display makers, Sony and LG.Philips LCD Co., unveiled flexible full-color displays at a display industry show in California this week. Sony took the wraps off its prototype on Thursday and released an impressive video showing the display being bent to form a semi-circle while still displaying a moving video image. The 2.5-inch display has a resolution of 160 pixels by 120 pixels making it a little larger than the typical cell phone screen and a little lower resolution. The screen from LG.Philips LCD is larger at 4 inches in diagonal width and has a higher resolution of 320 pixels by 240 pixels. In contrast to Sony's video, LG.Philips LCD released only a photo that showed the display curved at a slight angle. Typically flat-panel displays are built onto thin sheets of glass but the Sony and LG.Philips screens are made on thin sheets of plastic and metal, respectively. That allows them to be bent but also introduces a range of other problems such as keeping everything aligned and working while the panel is flexed. Indeed the video of Sony's prototype showed several bad pixels and other problems. Neither company has said when it thinks the displays will be ready to go on sale but early customers might be attracted to them for reasons other than their flexibility, said Paul Semenza, an analyst with iSuppli, who attended the Society for Information Display conference where they were announced. "What tends to get forgotten is that these displays are also rugged and lightweight," he said. "Those are valuable properties." Sony sees OLED technology as important for its future products and is putting a lot of research and development resources behind screens like that unveiled this week. The screens are different from today's LCD (liquid crystal display) and PDP (plasma display panel) screens in that OLED pixels use an organic material that emits its own light, so no backlight is needed. That means the screens consume less power and can be made thinner. OLEDs also handle fast-moving images better and offer good color reproduction. At theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January the company showed off prototype televisions based on larger, non-flexible 11-inch and 27-inch OLED panels. Thanks to the lack of a backlight the 11-inch prototype was just 11 millimeters thick but displayed a vibrant, colorful image. Sony plans to have its first OLED TVs on sale in Japan this year. Last week in Tokyo Sony unveiled its latest OLED TV prototypes, which appeared to be close to commercialization. The sets had an integrated digital TV tuner and could also accept a high-definition input via an HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) connector. Â
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New technologies like OLED make possible thinner, lighter displays that use less energy.
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Make your ZZZPhone to order Not satisfied with the iPhoneâs camera? Wish LGâs Viewty had a larger screen? Well, one manufacturer will now make you a handset to order, built from the chipset upwards, with all the features you want, for an eye-popping $149.â¦
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At the CEDIA custom electronics show in Denver, LG Electronics is showing off a new prototype high-definition video disc player that it claims will play both iHD and BD-J interactive content, and will sell for $999. Is this one, finally, at long last, for real?