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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Samsung says it has developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
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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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Emerging LED technology will boost the colors in a flat-panel display.
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LG Philips LCD said it has developed the industry's first liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for next-generation mobile phones, allowing a clearer playback of video clips.
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Samsung Corp's (000830.KS) Samsung  America Inc on Thursday said it would make some improvements to  its Blu-ray high-definition DVD players ahead of the holiday  season.
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A new generation of OLED displays, which are thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs, is working its way to market. But it could be years before they're cheap enough to displace LCD screens.
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Plasma successor ramping rapidly Samsung will follow its roll-out of 14in OLED screens by 2010, revealed last week, turns out to be merely the first step toward the release of 40in and 42in panels a year later.â¦
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SEOUL (AFX) - LG Philips LCD Co Ltd, one of the world&#39;s leading manufacturers of thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD), said its new sixth-generation TFT-LCD fabrication plant has started mass production of wide screens.
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It's getting harder to shrink chips, but Samsung has prototypes that show that the relentless pace of the industry continues.
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South Korea's LG.Philips LCD will unveil a flexible, high-resolution 14.3-inch color electronic paper display at next week's CES show.
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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.
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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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Facing growing competition from LCDs and coming OLEDs, it goes after the more affordable 32-inch market.
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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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TAIPEI/SEOUL  - A new generation of super-thin,  power-sipping displays is making its way to the market,  stretching battery lives to new limits and perhaps one day  posing a challenge to heavier, energy-gobbling LCDs.
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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.