Sony's TV Recall Makes For A Fiery Dispute Keiran Jackson’s first Sony TV blew up despite being recalled and repaired by Sony. When she received another similar recall notice for her new Sony TV, she contested the company for a replacement or a refund.
Playing Dirty: Executives 'Fixed Prices Of LCDs' Television executives illegally conspired on over 60 occasions at luxury apartments, costing the US economy billions of dollars by fixing the price of LCD panels and stunting competition said a US prosecutor yesterday in court.
LCD High: Samsung 5.7m 'Record' TV Sales Black Friday wasn’t so black after all: the biggest day in the US shopping calendar has propped up Samsung TV sales – pushing global sales to 5.7 million units for November, it said on Thursday.
Thanks Galaxy: Samsung Beat iPhone Sales By 10M But LCD's A Disaster Thank god for Galaxy: smartphones sales buoyed Samsung's Q3 results today, beating Apple's 17.1m handset sales by around 10m. Total sales at the giant were up 3% to 41.7 trillion won – compared to 40.3 trillion won a year ago – although its TV and panel businesses were on the slump.
Team LCD: Sony, Toshiba & Hitachi Shock Merger As Tab Displays Boom First on the 'to make' list is LCDs for tabs and smartphones. The Japanese trio, consisting of TV kings Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, will now be run by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan or 'New Co' to make displays for tablets and smartphones.
Watch Out Bose: Apple HDTV Blasts Out 2012 iPad creator is said to be turning its attention to TVs in a serious way. Steve Jobs Cupertino techies will release 3 X HDTV models next year, Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research believes.
Sony Slips $191M Loss As LCDs, PS3 Tumble Sony are counting its losses after the Japan earthquake as sales slump10%. The electronics giant has announced its results for the first quarter to June 30.
Advertising Giant Chooses LCD Over Plasma Eye, the company behind many of the billboard ads plastered across shopping malls, airports and highways, is moving from plasma screens to LCD screens in its digital advertising.
Sony: It Aint So Bravia, PSN Hack A Costly Affair Good news were slim picking at Sony today, with recent earthquake, PSN hacking and falling sales in most segments the order of the day. However, despite this Sony’s TV sales actually witnessed a rise over the period to March 31 to US $43,045m.
This 16 per cent jump was due to a “significant increase” in unit sales that came mostly from the
Asia-Pacific and other regions, selling 22.4 million over the past year.
Sony Sales Slump 0.5%, Quake Hits Home Sony Corp have just announced its results for the year end which shows sales falling as the impact of earthquake and flat performance hit home.
Hisense TV Gets PVR And Video Playback Hisense announced that its new LCD TVs in the V86 Series will have PVR functionality as well as MPEG4 and DivX functionality. The 32-inch HL32V86 is hitting stores this week followed the 42-inch HL42V86P in two weeks time.
LG Investors Sue Over LCD Price Fixing Korean investors have moved to sue LG Display claiming that they lost millions after the Company failed to disclose their involvement in an LCD display price fixing scam.
Sanyo LCD TVs Record Shows Via USB In addition to its new waterproof camera, Sanyo also announced a new range of LCD TVs that offer time shift function.
Metz 100Hz Full HD TV With Timeshift Metz has launched a new family of televisions that promise Full HD resolution, 100Hz technology, and timeshift ability that can pause and record a show for up to 180 minutes.
21:9 Philips Blu ray Cinema TV Launched In OZ After initially pulling out of the flat panel TV market, Philips Europe has re-entered the Australia market via Melbourne based distributor Qualifi, who is set to launch a 56-inch Philips LCD TV that will only deliver Blu ray content at a 21:9 cinema aspect ratio.
Budget LCD TV War Heats Up Tyagi may be unknown to a lot of people, but this company sells a range of HD LCD televisions at a very affordable price. One product shown at a press briefing this morning is a 47-inch Full HD LCD TV selling for $1255.
Toshiba Looking To Exit Commercial NOT Consumer LCD TV Business Worldwide reports that Toshiba is looking to exit the LCD TV market are wrong, claims Toshiba Australia CEO Mark Whittard. What the company is looking to do is exit the LCD commercial TV market, which he admits has struggled for some years.
Samsung Gives Away LCD TVs Customers who buy selected Samsung LED TVs until the end of January will be eligible to receive a bonus 26” LCD TV.
Major Blow For Samsung LCD TVs In a major blow for Samsung the US International Trade Commission has ruled that the Korean Company has breached four Sharp LCD TV technology patents and that the Company must stop, immediately selling TVs that contain the Sharp patented technology.
Panasonic To Enter Small LCD TV Market Panasonic is set to enter the bottom end of the LCD HD TV market with a new range of small display offerings ranging in size from 19” up to 26”.
More Bravia TV Problems For Sony Sony, who uses third party manufacturers to make their Bravia LCD TV's is set to be hit by flat panel display price rises according to a new industry report. There is also speculation that Sony Australia may follow their UK colleagues and start handing out money for old CRT TV’s in an effort to drive sales.
JVC Moves To 3D Market Consumer electronics company JVC is set to launch a new 46-inch LCD monitor capable of displaying 3D images in the next coming months.
