LCD

This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 21 at 10:46 am PT

Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 8 at 1:35 pm PT

So much for falling TV prices.

Voices

How Japan’s Sharp Lost Its Edge

Daisuke Wakabayashi and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on March 20 at 1:37 pm PT

Sharp Corp.’s domestic liquid-crystal-display factories once made the company a source of pride for Japan’s electronics sector.

News Byte

More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens

Lauren Goode in News on February 23 at 1:23 pm PT

For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a 32 percent increase from the third quarter; the share of CCFL-backlit LCD TVs dropped to 25 percent from 56 percent. The report comes just a couple days after Samsung, the world’s largest LCD-panel maker, said it would spin off its LCD business to focus more on higher-margin OLED screens.

News Byte

Samsung Spins Off LCD Business

Lauren Goode in News on February 21 at 5:47 am PT

Samsung, currently the biggest LCD panel maker in terms of sales, will spin off its unprofitable LCD operations on April 1 into a new firm, called Samsung Display Co. As The Wall Street Journal notes, analysts had widely expected the spinoff, as the LCD industry shrinks and the Korean electronics giant focuses more on higher-margin OLED screens for TV sets and tablets.

LCD Makers Cough Up $538 Million to Settle Price-Fixing Charges

John Paczkowski in News on December 27, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

Seven major liquid-crystal display makers settle charges that they illegally conspired to fix prices of LCDs.

Sony Unloads LCD Venture Stake on Samsung

John Paczkowski in News on December 26, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Sony sells off its nearly 50 percent stake in its LCD manufacturing joint venture with Samsung.

Cameras Act Like a Pro, but Are as Easy as Pie

Geoffrey A. Fowler in Personal Technology on October 26, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

Nikon and Sony recently introduced cameras that offer many of the features of much larger models but are simple to use.

Voices

LCD Merger Gets Boost

Kenneth Maxwell and Judy Lam, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 1, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

In a move to support technology companies striving to compete with aggressive rivals from other parts of Asia, Japan is pumping $2.6 billion into a merger of the small-panel LCD operations of three of the country’s biggest electronics makers.