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Saturday, September 02, 2006

Gadgets Are (Flat Screen TV) a Girl?s Best Friend


Gadgets Are a Girl?s Best Friend
Gadgets Are a Girl’s Best FriendWHO-TV - A new study from Oxygen network found that women are hungry for tech toys and that a whopping 77 percent would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond solitaire necklace. Plus 78 percent of women would choose a new top of the line cell phone over a [...]

Philips 100-inch LCD TV Glows With Ambilight (Gizmodo)
Philips is showing off this magnificent 100-inch LCD TV at IFA in Berlin, making it the third over-100-inch TV that we've seen, behind the 100-inch LG LCD, and the Panasonic Plasma. (That's not...

Top 5 (Plasma TV) Home Video Mistakes
Top 5 (Plasma TV) Home Video Mistakes Top 5 Home Video Mistakes Top 5 Home Video Mistakes Top 5 Home Video Mistakes Top 5 Home Video MistakesWATE - If you re buying a fixed-pixel display (plasma, LCD, rear-projection) you want [...]

LG Elec sees LCD TV prices down 30% plus in 2007 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Thursday it expected prices of flat LCD and plasma television sets to drop by 30 percent or more in 2007, continuing big price falls amid overproduction and cost reductions.

Friday, September 01, 2006

LCD TV - Daewoo to cut 205 jobs in Antrim 


Daewoo to cut 205 jobs in Antrim 
Daewoo is to slash jobs at its Northern Ireland electronics factory, with more than 200 posts to go in the reshuffle.

Reference design provides functionality for flat-panel digital TV 
Milpitas, calif. LSI Logic Corp. and Micronas are offering a qualified reference design that provides all of the functionality required for a high-quality, feature-rich, flat-panel integrated digital TV (IDTV).

Digital Photography Do's 
(ARA) - During the summer months, the temperature is not the only thing on the rise. So too is the use of digital cameras, specifically for trips to the beach, picnics, barbeques, vacations and sporting events.

Crush: Management couches 
Management students got it good. That big, shiny, brand-new building erected last year has a secret. It's not the caf or the classrooms (although both are quite nice) or even the multitude of plasma screen televisions lining the wall. The real hidden treasures of the Whitman School of Management are the couches in the lobby.

Venus rising 
Tradition. Thats what the Venus II restaurant in Marshfield has always been about since its owners Nicholas and Peggy Drosopoulous opened its doors in 1976.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Flat Screen TV - Review: Trio of new cameras widens digital vistas 


Review: Trio of new cameras widens digital vistas 
You may be perfectly satisfied with the snapshots taken by your sleek, slim shirt-pocket digital camera. But then you see pictures in magazines that you just know were taken with better equipment.

Sharp more concerned about prices than market share 
FRANKFURT: Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp is more concerned about falling prices for flat-panel LCD television sets than it is about losing market share, the head of its European business said on Monday.

IFA 2006 Exhibitor Profiles 
BERLIN, BUSINESS WIRE -- IFA 2006 takes place 1 to 6 September 2006 in Berlin. For in-depth information about the event, visit http://www.ifa-berlin.de. Below are profiles from IFA 2006 exhibitors.

ING Keeps Merck KGaA At Buy, EUR93 Target 
0757 GMT [Dow Jones] ING maintains Merck KGaA (MRK.XE) at buy, with a EUR93 target. Says the company's shares have suffered in recent months on the back of difficulties faced by customers in its liquid crystals business.

Sharp to Introduce Six New Full-Spec HDTV AQUOS Models; World's HighestContrast Ratio of 2000:1 and the World's Fastest  
Tokyo, Japan, Aug 31, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation will introduce into the Japanese market six new AQUOS models in 52V-, 46V- and 42V-inch*3 screen sizes featuring LCD panels manufactured at Sharp's state-of-the-art Kameyama Plant No. 2 which became operational in August of this year.

Review: Infocus Projector 
The prices for TV projectors have dropped lately and are being pitched as a practical alternative to large-screen LCD and Plasma TVs.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Flat Screen TV - News & Commentary Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy Going HDTV 


News & Commentary Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy Going HDTV 
The shows will be available to local stations via syndication. Washington, D.C. (August 21, 2006) -- Game shows Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will debut in High-Definition TV next month.

Zhone Technologies Enables Working Demonstration of MPEG-4 High Definition IPTV over DSL at IBC 
OAKLAND, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Zhone Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZHNE), and its partners Tut Systems and Amino Communications, will be unveiling high quality HDTV broadcast using MPEG -4 Advanced Video Codec (AVC) over xDSL as part of a working IPTV demonstration at IBC September 8-12 at the RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, on Stand 4.256.

3D displays making a splash in electronics industry 
You're going to have to trust me when I tell you that in person, on this particular TV, these dice really look as if they're floating about a foot in front of the set. Even though you don't need special glasses to see 3D images on the latest Philips WOWvx display, you do need both of your eyes.

Penetration of HDTV Service Rising Rapidly According to In-Stat, But Still Only Available in a Few Countries 
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----Aug. 14, 2006--The number of households watching High-Definition TV programming continues to rise rapidly, reports In-Stat . Households with HDTV service, which are defined as homes with an HDTV set that receive and watch HD programming, are projected to grow from 15 million in mid-2006 to 20.3 million at the end of 2006.

Cisco acquires video on demand software 
Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com , Tuesday 22 August 2006 at 00:00:00 Networking provider strengthens grip on provider market with Arroyo purchase Cisco has agreed to acquire Arroyo Video Solutions for $92m in cash. Arroyo develops a software application for the delivery of video on demand to consumers.... > Read the full article

Kicking it up a notch with hi-def DVD players 
So you've seen those funny-shaped packages at the electronics store where it displays DVDs and DVD players. Upon closer inspection you notice the description: "High-Definition DVD." So you ask the salesman, "What is a 'high-definition DVD player' and why are there two formats?"

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Front projectors: Really big home theater with a shrinking price ... (LCD TV)


Front projectors: Really big home theater with a shrinking price ...
Consumer Reports (subscription) - Aug 24, 2006If you think a 50-inch plasma TV is large, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Imagine watching a movie or sporting event on a giant screen ...

The life that's meant to be easy is still light years away
The Australian, Australia - Aug 28, 2006... a nuclear bomb that can reach a neighbourhood near you, just head on down to the basement with your iPod, mobile and laptop, turn on the plasma TV and watch re ...

Go Get One, Plasma TV Gets Cheaper
The Money Times, India - Aug 12, 2006... the entry level prices of the most wannabe and mean cutting edge display panels yes, no prizes for guessing it right iam talking about Plasma Tv the ultimate ...

Panasonic Spotlights Line In NYC
Twice (subscription), MA - Aug 21, 2006New York� Panasonic showed off its 103W-inch plasma TV, Plasma Concierge program, Blu-ray deck and other digital products in Vanderbilt Hall of the famed ...

Monday, August 28, 2006

LCD TV - BAA Maryland Wins the Gold with the Addition of Olympic News


BAA Maryland Wins the Gold with the Addition of Olympic News
Forbes - Both locations feature a plasma television that gives interested travelers the latest local and destination event information. Additional Olympic News locations will open with the continued expansion and redevelopment of the concession program. About

2001: Demonstrates The Tenacity Of The Nation, The Industry
Consumer Electronics Net - Meanwhile, plasma TV continued to percolate. In March, the technology's chief proponents announced dramatic price cuts that edged the flat-panel displays closer to the outer limits of middle-class affordability, with Fujitsu dropping its top

Everything's just ducky
Peoria Journal Star - Sponsors of the top 20 ducks won a variety of prizes - a $1,000 savings bond, a trip to Las Vegas and the grand prize, a 42-inch plasma HDTV and complete home theater system. All proceeds from the race go to support the center. Martha Herm, the center

Balancing Act: Achieving the Vitamins and Minerals You Need Each Day
WTOC TV - Low plasma vitamin B12 is associated with lower BMD: the Framingham Osteoporosis Study. Journal of Bone Mineral Research. 2005 Jan.;20(1):152-158. 14. Tice, J.A., Ross, E., Coxson, P.G., Rosenberg, I., Weinstein, M.C., Hunink, M.G., Goldman

Sunday, August 27, 2006

LCD TV - Plasma TVs: a girl's new best friend


Plasma TVs: a girl's new best friend
The Age, Australia - Aug 1, 2006Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new US study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace. ...

Pioneer to build new plasma TV plant in Japan
Reuters India, India - Aug 6, 2006said on Sunday it would build a new plasma television plant in Japan, but the size of the investment, output capacity and other details had not been decided. ...

[Daily Online] Plasma, LCD Battle for Superiority
CEPro, MA - Aug 21, 2006Plasma displays have always been the sexiest choice for consumers who couldn't drop the money for a high-end projector, but LCD sets are slowly taking up ...

Plasma TV is a girl's best friend
TV Squad, CA - Aug 8, 2006... beaten out by the Hydrogen Network on the Periodic Table of Ratings -- revealed that women these days would much rather have a plasma screen television than a ...

Plasma to Acquire Zero Waste Energy Systems
CCNMatthews (press release), Canada - Aug 24, 2006TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Aug. 24, 2006) - Plasma Environmental Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:PE) announces that it has ...