Kolin has agreed to purchase 10,000 light engines from Syntax-Brillian in 2006 for production of 65-inch LCoS HDTVs destined for the Chinese and Taiwanese markets and also for distribution in North America by Syntax-Brillian under Olevia brannd.

An LCD plant that represents the second-biggest investment in Shanghai will start construction in the second quarter next year, the principals said yesterday as they signed agreements on the 3.1 billion yuan (US$373m) deal.

DisplaySearch indicated that worldwide shipments of large flat-panel displays for non-TV applications reached a worldwide total of 87K units in Q2'05, a slightly down from the Q1'05 worldwide total of 96.4K units.

The new line will produce 45,000 substrates per month. From each substrate, eight 42-inch panels can be produced. The company said capacity would reach 90,000 substrates by the first quarter of 2007.

The 3.1-billion-yuan (US$384 million) plant is expected to start mass production in two years, and will focus on the market of small and medium-sized displays smaller than 10.4 inches.

Samsung said it slashed the price of its 46-inch LCD TVs by 12% from W6.8 million (US$6,800) to W6 million, and discounted 40-inch models by 20% to W4.4 million. That puts the price of 40-inch LCD TVs at the same level as 42-inch PDP TVs

The electronics giant claimed that previous OLED lifetimes were between 2000 and 3000 hours, and this breakthrough will accelerate the commercialization of AMOLEDs as mobile phone-use displays.

Dai Nippon Printing of Japan has begun to manufacture color filters for television liquid crystal display (LCD) panels using inkjet technology.

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Sanyo is keen to sell its home entertainment range through specialist digital Hi-Fi and home entertainment dealers.

Matsushita said it plans to shutter operations in Germany and Ohio that make display devices used in large-size TVs, as the growing popularity of flat screens has hurt demand.

Singapore's move into high definition TV was announced at the launch of the Asia Media Festival.

Epistar and Arima Optoelectronics are estimated to control nearly half of world production of four-element diodes (Quattro) in 2006.

Hitachi Display Products Group has introduced the TX26D02, a successor to the TX26D01