Fuji Film to set up China LCD filter venture
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Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. (4901.T) and  China's SVA Electron Co. Ltd. (600602.SS) will together spend  $270 million to make color filters used in liquid-crystal  displays, Fuji Photo said on Tuesday.
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Japanese consumer electronics maker Sony  Corp  said on Tuesday it will spend 22 billion yen  ($203.5 million) to develop technology to make medium to large  organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had developed a 65-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) television, the world's biggest, in a bid to break into the large flat-panel TV market dominated by plasma display (PDP) makers.
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Sharp and Toshiba plan to closely cooperate in the flat-panel TV business, buying screens and semiconductor chips from each other, they said Friday.Toshiba will turn to Sharp for the 32-inch and larger flat-panel displays used in its LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions while Sharp will procure from Toshiba the chips used in its TVs. The cooperation will begin during the year from April and will slowly build towards 2010 when two goals are expected to be reached: Sharp will supply Toshiba with 40 percent of its LCD modules and Toshiba will sell to Sharp 50 percent of the chips it needs.The deal provides both companies with a steadier supply of vital components for LCD TVs. The market for such televisions has grown from 161 million units in 2003 to an estimated 192 million this year and is expected to keep on rising on the back of strong demand and competition.Some of the display panels headed for Toshiba will come from a state-of-the-art &#165;380 billion (US$3.36 billion) LCD manufacturing plant Sharp is building in Osaka&#39;s Sakai City. Production is scheduled to begin in 2009. The plant will handle mother glass -- the large sheets on which several display panels are made -- of 2.85 meters by 3.05 meters. This size, dubbed 10th generation, is larger than that used by any other display manufacturer and will make the Sakai plant the world&#39;s most advanced LCD production center.The large glass sheets also bring a cost advantage for Sharp. The per-inch price of LCD panels drops with increases in the size of mother glass, so the panels are likely to be more competitive than those from rivals. That&#39;s especially important in the TV market, where strong competition has made price a key to success.Toshiba currently holds a stake in IPS Alpha Technology, an LCD manufacturing joint venture created with Panasonic and Hitachi. The IPS line uses an older 6th-generation technology and will need substantial investment if it is to remain competitive in the market.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. (6753.T) said on  Wednesday it has developed the world's first liquid crystal  display (LCD) panel that allows the viewing of three different  images on one screen at the same time.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 10--TOKYO -- Toshiba Corp. plans to build a liquid crystal display  television plant in Poland to boost production of large screen LCD television  sets for the European market, company sources said Sunday.
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Japanese electronics makers JVC   and Funai Electric Co Ltd  will jointly develop and  supply LCD televisions, the latest move as the sector  consolidates in quest of economies of scale.
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The television unit of Japan's Sony Corp and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures.
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Sony Pictures has set up a joint venture television and film co-production unit in China, taking advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the tightly controlled industry.
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Japan&#39;s Sharp Corp. plans to spend up to 200 billion yen ($1.91 billion) to build a cutting-edge domestic plant to make liquid crystal display panels for flat-screen TVs, a business newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Japan's answer to CES features a Blu-ray camcorder from Hitachi, Toshiba's plans for big-screen SED TVs, and more.
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Fujifilm includes several youth-oriented features in its new Z10fd camera.
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Japan&#39;s Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on  Wednesday it plans to shift its remaining digital camera  production to China and cut an unspecified number of jobs as it  restructures its struggling camera operations.
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Service powered by Toshiba's Ubiquitous Viewer will launch in March in Japan.
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Toshiba said it will buy large liquid crystal displays from Sharp as part of an alliance likely to help spark a realignment of the flat-panel TV industry.
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PC Magazine - Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Wednesday it has developed the world's first liquid crystal display (LCD) panel that allows the viewing of three different images on one screen at the same time.
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The television unit of Japan&#39;s Sony Corp. and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese-language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures.