LG Electronics' personnel changes carried out yesterday has attracted attention because there were a number of display experts promoted to vice president.

Samsung Electronics on Sunday signed a deal to supply products worth W455 billion (US$455 million) to China's largest home appliances retailer Guomei Electronics

Only about half of the homes in the United States with HDTV sets are able to watch high-definition television, according to a study by Jupiter Research and a separate study by Scientific-Atlanta, a maker of set-top devices.

BenQ aims to lead the Malaysian projector market by June next year.

Hitachi has announced that Kazuo Furukawa, 59, will assume the position of President and Chief Operating Officer on April 1, 2006.

Due to their relatively weak cost advantages, Taiwan panel makers suffer lower profitability when the demand outstrips supply, and greater losses when supply exceeds demand.

Flat-panel TVs took major strides in becoming a mainstream product in 2005, thanks to aggressive marketing by TV makers and major production capacity expansions by display suppliers.

HANA？ founding members include Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems.

A novel concept for lighting homes and offices integrates LED technology with building materials and systems to create electronic walls and ceilings.

Technologically, SED is the holy grail of the flat TV industry -- images just as sharp as a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) TV in a thin, flat form. Whether its manufacturers can actually make a profit on it, however, is another story.

Two California residents and a New York woman claimed the GTW-series plasma televisions, for which they paid more than $3,200 each, failed shortly after they were bought, according to the suit.

DID announced it has completed expansion of its first plant in Cheonan and has started pilot runs, targeting Samsung Electronics' seventh-generation line.

The 6580iFB boasts of the industry's highest contrast ratio rating at 4000:1.

Japan's Sharp Corp. plans to launch sales of the world's largest high-definition 65-inch LCD TV in the Korean market in February, further intensifying competition in the country, industry sources said yesterday.

The 36-inch prototype has employed the configuration having two electron-emitters from its initial stage.

Anticipating massive demand to replace TV sets before the start of digital terrestrial broadcasting in Japan in 2011, manufacturers are competing fiercely this winter bonus season.

Royal Philips Electronics today announced its first TV-on-mobile solution for the US market, three months after launching its European solution.

TEL has high exposure to domestic chip makers, which are weaker than the foreign competitors. In addition, LCD equipment margins are below average.

Samsung announced a new technology to enhance the image quality of smaller-size LCD panels.

The UK government plans to start shutting off the analogue signal in 2008, with the country going 100 per cent digital by 2012.

The TDP-FF1A will go on sale January 2006 with the price tag of US$800.

The research firm said that total monitor shipments in Canada grew 2% year over year in the third quarter to 559,700 units with LCD monitors accounting for 438,496 (78%) of shipments versus 121,207 (22%) for CRT monitors.

LG Chem yesterday announced its plan to invest 44 billion won (approximately $43.2 million) to construct a polarizer back-end processing plant in Wroclaw, Poland.

TDK said it has developed multilayer chip EMI filter arrays, the world's first noise countermeasure products for use in mobile terminals that can receive terrestrial digital broadcasts.

One Stop Displays has unveiled a new series of 256 x 64 monochrome OLED displays that are rated for 100,000 hours.

Five plasma TV panel manufacturers have formed a coalition to promote the growth of the technology in the U.S. and dispel lingering misconceptions about plasma TV.

Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore announced plans to collaborate with MediaCorp to begin a trial service in the middle of next year.