Pioneer Plasma TV Will Deliver "Absolute Black"
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At a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas, Pioneer demonstrated a concept TV that, they say, delivers "absolute black," meaning no light at all escapes from the black portions of the screen. The innovation could produce amazingly beautiful imagery, and might breathe new life into plasma technology.
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The Wired News video crew brings you highlights from Day 1 of CES 2008, including Pioneer's TVs with "absolute blacks," Alienware's wrap-around monitor for gamers who want totally immersive play, and some futuristic concepts from Fujitsu. Plus WowWee's Tribot: It spins!
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SED TVs, coming next year, will offer bright, CRT-like pictures in a thin package.
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LOS ANGELES  - A year from Sunday, television for many Americans will cut to black. Analog signals will stop transmitting, older sets will become useless and millions of TV-watching households will simply disappear.
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Not much in it, though Ask consumers which HD TV technology they think delivers the best picture quality and they'll put LCD and plasma on a par. Get them to try the two out first, and they quickly favour plasma. So claimed research company Synovate last week after conducting tests with punters across Europe.â¦
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Ready for the tech that never arrives? The British "HD for All" campaign, designed to promote hi-def TV, drew a withering blast from Sky yesterday.â¦
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By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Feb. 18--These days, it's all about TVs -- who's got the biggest, the  sharpest, the loudest.   But some day soon, homeowner envy may shift to a different subject:  automation.
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MANHASSET, NY - Sony Corp. is considering leaving the plasma display market to focus on flat-panel liquid crystal (LCD) displays, according to several online reports.
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The picture is grainy and the technology won't last, but TV programming is here to stay.
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In less than two years, plasma TVs have gone from dominant format to afterthought, then back to a viable option.
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Toshiba plans to drop out of the plasma display panel television market and next summer will start producing surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels for flat panel televisions with 40-inch or larger screens.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony CEO Howard Stringer unveils Sony's new OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) television. Martyn Williams reports for the IDG News Service.
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(InfoWorld) - A group of technology vendors has submitted new test results for a wireless device intended to operate in unused portions of the television spectrum afterÂ an identical device malfunctioned in U.S. Federal Communications Commission tests earlier this year. The new tests showed the wireless device correctly detected TV signals and stayed out of that part of the spectrum 100 percent of the time, according to a filing on behalf of Microsoft and Philips Electronics. Microsoft and Philips are part of the White Spaces Coalition, a group of tech vendors asking the FCC to allow wireless devices to operate in the so-called white spaces of the television spectrum. The coalition wants the white spaces opened up to give consumers more wireless broadband options. Television broadcasters have opposed the White Spaces Coalition, saying it's too likely that wireless devices will interfere with TV signals. On July 31, the FCC declined to license a wireless device built by the coalition, saying it interfered with TV signals. Microsoft later said the device was damaged and "operated at a severely degraded level." On Thursday, Microsoft and Philips submitted new tests to the FCC. In their new tests, the wireless device detected signals that are "far too weak for a television set to produce a broadcast television picture," wrote Ed Thomas, a tech advisor to the White Spaces Coalition and a former chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The FCC will likely do its own retest of the device. The White Spaces Coalition hopes the FCC can make a decision to approve the device by the end of the year, Thomas said. The group had originally hoped the FCC would make a decision by October, and members believe the FCC can still make a decision soon, he said. "We'd love to see the FCC do whatever they need to do to corroborate our data," Thomas said. "We hope we've moved the ball a long way to help them make a decision." This month,Â the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Association for Maximum Service Television launched a campaign urging the FCC to reject white spaces devices. The wireless devices could cause "devastating interference" to digital TV sets, the two groups said. "While our friends at Intel, Google, and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches, and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not," Alan Frank, NAB's chairman, said in a news release this month.
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New rear-projection technology from Sony to be featured in new HDTV.
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Japan's Pioneer Corp. (6773.T) said on  Monday it filed a suit in the United States against South  Korea's Samsung SDI Co. (006400.KS) and Samsung Electronics Co.  Ltd. (005930.KS) for what it says are patent violations in its  plasma display panel technology.
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At CES 2008, home entertainment will be dominated by a move towards various forms of wireless connectivity -- and, of course, enormous TVs. This year, LCD technology appears to have definitively won out over plasma and rear-projection, even for very large displays.
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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.