Ultra HD TV panel pricing could drop by as much as 10% throughout August 2013, according to market observers. The panels have already dropped from US$500 to US$450 while 55-inch units have dropped from US$580 to US$540, the observers ...
Tags: HD TV Panel, LCD TV panel
LG has announced full-backlit LED 55-inch and 65-inch models to expand its ultra high-definition 4K line of TVs. In addition, there has also been released an 84-inch UHD model, which is the first to be made available to buyers in the United ...
Tags: Ultra HD LED, LED TVs
Sharp and Toshiba used the occasion of "CE Week" to announce that their first their first Ultra HD TVs will arrive in August. Sharp will have a single 70-inch Aquos LCD model that will sell for $8,000, while Toshiba will have three Ultra HD ...
Seiki Digital,which helped pull Ultra HD TV pricing down out of the stratosphere this spring when it started selling a 50-inch set for about$1,500,will be going even smaller this summer with a 39-inch model it says will sell for$700. ...
Tags: HD TV, Seiki, price, resolution
The growing adoption of the open cell business model in the LCD panel industry has generated different views on the future of the backlight unit (BLU) sector, said Wang Pen-Jan, chairman of Taiwan-based BLU maker Radiant Opto-Electronics. ...
Tags: Open Cell, Blu Makers
If you've checked through our most recent TV Ratings and don't see a model or series you're considering, we might be checking it out right now. Here are the HDTVs currently being tested in our labs. Among the notable models is the Sony ...
Tags: Sony, Ultra HD TV
The first Ultra HD TVs we saw cost $18,000 to $40,000, so it was hard not to notice when a lesser-known company called Seiki blew the doors off Ultra HD TV pricing when it recently started selling a 50-inch set (model SE50UY04) for just ...
Tags: Seiki, Ultra HD TV
Lextar Electronics is expected to see gross margin rise from 6.82% for the first quarter of 2013 to 13-14% for the second due to growing orders for LED backlight units used in TV, monitor, tablet and smartphone panels, according to market ...
Tags: Lextar Electronics, LED backlight
Sony has started promoting its new 4K Ultra HD TVs, which begin shipping this week. The marketing campaign features Garth Davis, who most recently co-directed Jane Campion 's critically acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake. After seeing ...
Tags: Sony, 4K Ultra HD TV, Consumer Electronics
Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
Tags: HD TV, Plasma TVs
Due to strong global demand for LCD TVs, demand for LED backlight units (BLUs) has become robust since the second quarter of 2013 and the booming demand is expected to persist until November, according to Taiwan-based LED makers. LED ...
Tags: LED backlight, Taiwan, Electronics
LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
Tags: TV, Consumer Electronics, Samsung
LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV
Lextar Electronics has seen increasing orders for LED backlight units (BLUs) mainly from China- and South Korea-based LCD TV vendors, with overall capacity utilization rising to 70-80% currently and shipments scheduled for 1-1.5 months, ...
Tags: LED lighting products, LED lighting, LED
Last year, Panasonic's VT50-series plasma TVs were the favorite TV sets among many of our testers and editors, thanks to excellent picture quality, deep, inky blacks, and very accurate colors. They also had the typical plasma ...