Matsushita, Hitachi join forces in plasma screens
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.  and Hitachi Ltd.  are joining forces to battle fierce competition in the flat screen industry by adding each others' plasma display panels to their product line-up.
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Japanese consumer electronics giant Matsushita would join domestic rivals Hitachi and Fujitsu in the plasma panel business in an effort to dent South Korean dominance in the area, a leading business newspaper said.
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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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Three of Japan&#39;s largest electronics companies, Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., have reached a basic agreement to create a joint venture to manufacture and sell LCD
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd's  Panasonic unit said on Monday it will work with Google Inc to  develop televisions that will allow users to watch Internet  content such as photos and videos.
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Big TVs from Panasonic and slim ones from other vendors will highlight the products from Japan at CES.
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Japan&#39;s Hitachi Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toshiba Corp. struck a deal to jointly make displays for flat-screen televisions, starting as early as July 2006, the companies said Tuesday.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial   Co. 6752.T said on Wednesday it would start selling two new   Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a   format battle for next-generation optical disc technology.
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(InfoWorld) - Two Taiwanese companies are making laptop PCs users can hook up to their high definition (HD) TVs to make more use of the laptops' internal high definition optical drives, either Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD. Micro-Star InternationalÂ (MSI) is displaying several laptops with HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) outputs at the Computex Taipei 2007 trade show. This way, the laptop doubles as an HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc player on the family HD TV. Most of the MSI laptops, including the PR210, RR210, GX610, GX710, and ER710 models at MSI's Computex booth have Turion 64x2 dual core processors from Advanced Micro DevicesÂ and ATI graphics chips. The GX710 and ER710 are higher end laptops with 17-inch display screens. Most of the other laptops have 15.4-inch screens. The company showed two laptops, the GX600 and GX700, with Intel Centrino Duo processors and Nvidia graphics chips. The company is still testing HD optical drives, and will let users choose what kind of drive they want in their device, an MSI marketing manager said. Asustek ComputerÂ is also showing off several laptops with HDMI outputs. It is only using Intel and Nvidia chips in its laptops, and two of them are already on sale in the U.S., at Best Buy. The ASUS G1S comes with a 15.4-inch screen, an Intel Centrino Duo processor and Nvidia graphics chips, while the ASUS GS2 comes with the same chips and a 17-inch screen. They retail for $2,000 or less, depending on specifications, an Asustek official said. The company's Lamborghini VX2 notebook PC, developed in conjunction with Automobili LamborghiniÂ also has an HDMI output. Most of Taiwan's other major PC makers, including Foxconn Technology and Giga-Byte Technology,Â did not show laptops with HDMI slots. Foxconn said it will have one out by the end of July.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd's   Panasonic unit said on Monday it will work with Google  Inc  to develop televisions that will allow users to  watch Internet content such as photos and videos.
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An LCD joint venture between Toshiba  Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Wednesday  it would start making large TV displays early next year,  entering a rapidly expanding but crowded market.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Canon 7751.T and Toshiba   6502.T said on Tuesday they would start mass production of   ultra-thin flat-panel TVs in early 2008, entering a market   dominated by makers such as Matsushita Electric Industrial   6752.T and Samsung Eletronics 005930.KS.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Jan. 31--TOKYO -- Pioneer Corp. said Wednesday it has decided to postpone  its plan to build a new integrated plant for plasma TVs in the city of Minami  Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture, in the face of sluggish sales.
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Japanese electronics conglomerate  Matsushita Electric Industrial introduced on Monday a 150-inch  plasma television, which it says is the world's biggest.
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Shares in LG.Philips LCD Co Ltd  surged on Friday on market talk Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial was buying a stake in the South Korean flat screen maker, but both firms poured cold water on the talk.
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Japanese engineers show their work on Super Hi-Vision, which could replace today's HDTV.
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Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Hitachi Chemical), and Innovative Glass  Corporation announced today that shipments of wide-width SPD-Smart&#8482;  light-control film from Hitachi Chemical's  newest coating line have commenced.