Samsung Shifts Gears to Compete with LG on 7th Generation LCDs
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Samsung Electronics Co. announced Monday that it was beginning full-scale investment to build a second production line for seventh-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs) at its complex in Tangjeong, South Chungcheong Province from early next year.
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Korean mobile maker Samsung says it expects profits to grow in 2005, but brokers warn that harsh competition could mean narrower margins.
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Major consumer electronics producer Samsung is expected to show off a prototype 31-inch active matrix OLED, and to begin producing 14-inch displays in 2008.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics unveiled a new semiconductor chip that it says uses new technology to greatly enhance the quality of images on handset display panels.
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SOUTH KOREA &#39;S LG Electronics said it had embarked on production of the world&#39;s largest plasma display panel (PDP) flat television screen.
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South Korea's LG Electronics Inc  said it aims to boost North American sales by 13 percent in 2008 and targets an increase of more than 70 percent in global flat-screen TV sales compared to last year.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) panels, begins producing seven-inch LCDs in September to take the lead in the WVGA display market for mobile devices.
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CHEJU, South Korea  - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS sees global mobile phone sales growing faster than   expected this year, while its own handset sales will just meet   the target, its president for handset business said on   Thursday.
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (OTC: SSNGY) said it was expanding operations with plans to build a $286 billion Won LCD production line.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has developed a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that builds a touch screen into the display, a development that could lead to thinner and cheaper display panels for mobile phones, the company said Tuesday.
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Samsung unveils a new service and a player with slide-out speakers--in a crowded market for both.
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(InfoWorld) - Even if you bought a TV in the last several months you may already feel like it's out of date. Your shiny new flat-screen arrives, you hook it up to the antenna and the first thing you see is a commercial for a bigger, better model. It might even have a cheaper price. It's the way things seem to work these days in the world of TVs. Things aren't likely to change any time soon. The latest buzz is around "100Hz" or "120Hz" technology, which relates to how often the image on the screen is refreshed or redrawn. The technology is already appearing in TVs, and if you haven't seen promotional stickers for it yet you probably will soon. Most TV sets today refresh the picture either 50 times per second (50Hz) or 60 times per second (60Hz) depending where in the world you live (different regions use different color formatting.) That rate is fine for most images, but when it comes to fast moving shows like sports events the images can appear blurry on an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. Doubling the rate at which images are displayed, to 100 or 120 frames per second, makes for a better, more high-definition picture. The need to improve LCD TVs has been especially acute because their chief competitor, PDP (plasma display panel) TVs, don't have the same blurring problem. Compounding the issue is that screen sizes are getting bigger, so any imperfections are more noticeable, said Mina Naito, a spokeswoman for Sony. PDP makers have trumpeted their advantage for some time, but things may be about to change. Compared to previous LCD panels, the new 100Hz and 120Hz models are "a big improvement," said Hisakazu Torii, a TV industry analyst with DisplaySearch in Tokyo. Prototype panels with the faster refresh rate began appearing last year. At the FPD International 2006 show in Yokohama in October, Samsung ElectronicsÂ demonstrated images and text scrolling across just such a panel, and they appeared to move more smoothly than on existing LCD TVs. Then at theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January, Sony announced a 120Hz model with the Samsung screen for the U.S. market. The 70-inch LCD TV is launched this month and carries the hefty price of $33,000. Samsung plans a 70-inch set, also based on the Samsung panel, which will go on sale in the first half of this year. Competitors including Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) are also promoting 120Hz sets in Japan. The latest company to join the party isÂ Sharp, which last week said it would put five sets in its Aquos range on sale in Japan from March. The price runs from Â¥500,000 for a 42-inch model to Â¥1 million for a 65-inch model.
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LG.Philips LCD is changing its name to LG Display, after Philips Electronics reduced its stake in the company.
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Thin is in at Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant has announced a new LCD for mobile phones that, at 0.82 mm, is no thicker than a credit card.
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The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models.
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With competition ever more fierce in the LCD TV market, some retailers are finding the most viable option is to join forces.
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High-level executives from Japan's Sharp  Corp. (6753.T) traveled to South Korea last week to visit  LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd. (034220.KS), as Philips  seeks  a buyer for its 32.9 percent stake in the Korean LCD firm,  Taiwan media reported on Friday.