New TV, LCD TV/DVD Combo and Standalone Player Utilize Widget Channel, Developed by Intel® and Yahoo!®, and Microsoft’s Windows Extender for Media Center Platform to Deliver an Exciting Content Solution for the Home Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (“Toshiba”), announced its new audio/video (A/V) devices with Network Player capabilities, which deliver on the promise of digital convergence in the home. Toshiba is launching this initiative across three product categories – REGZA® LCD TVs, LCD TV/DVD Combos and standalone players – in an effort to meet individual consumer needs. Toshiba’s new A/V devices offer consumers access to a diverse range of rich content over the Internet. With an extensive library of TV shows and movies, music, sports, and information services such as stock prices and weather forecasts at their fingertips, consumers will be … Read entire article »

Canon is developing flat panel TVs with Toshiba As reported in The Age newspaper, Canon announced at a press conferencein Europe that they were developing flat panel TV products incollaboration with Toshiba. This forms part of Canon’s expansion planswhere it aims to build its revenue by 60% by 2010, partly throughdomination of existing market segments and partly by entering newmarket areas, such as displays. Canon’s TV products should start entering the market in 2006. They arebuilding their TV strategy around SED (surface conduction electronemitter display) panels, coming from a new manufacturing plant builtwith Toshiba. They are also working on OLED (organic light emittingdiode displays) to replace LCDs on their cameras and camcorders. Thethird area of Canon’s display development lie in projection displays. … Read entire article »

The latest DisplaySearch report shows excellent growth in LCD shipments and an interesting order of who are the biggest shipping LCD manufacturers, worldwide and in the US market. DisplaySearch, a flat panel display (FPD) market research andconsulting firm, has indicated in its latest Quarterly Desktop MonitorShipment and Forecast Report that worldwide LCD desktop monitorshipments grew on track with previous predictions, rising 7% Q/Q to22.7M units in Q1’05. This growth represents a unit shipment growth of44% Y/Y, continuing the 26% Q/Q growth seen in Q4’04 brought on mainlyby the aggressive street-level price points which began to hit themarket in the fall of last year. For the quarter, the three most popular LCD monitor sizes continued tocarry average retail price points of US$199 for 15″, $299 for 17″ and$399 for 19″, which increased … Read entire article »