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...For the man cave, I plumped for a £4,000 Sony Bravia 77-inch XR XR77A80J (2021). Its full title includes the terms OLED, HDR 4K, UltraHD Smart Google TV with Dolby Atmos and Acoustic Surface Audio....
...LG Display, the world’s largest flat panel maker, is standing by its ultra-thin OLED television screen technology despite slow take-up by consumers and losses estimated at Won60bn ($53m) in the past quarter...
...(organic light-emitting diode) flat screens that deliver exceptionably rich colours and deep, dark blacks; and curved panels designed to provide a more immersive viewing experience....
...With opportunities for watching serious amounts of TV coming up in the holiday season, some families may want to treat themselves to one of the affordable flat-panel HD TVs that connect to the internet and...
...Sony and LG are also engaged in patent disputes in the US as they compete to grab a bigger share of the markets for flat screen televisions and mobile phones....
...Almost a third of American households bought an HDTV more than six years ago and were ready for an upgrade, while 20-25 per cent still did not have a flat panel HDTV....
...Leading HDTV brands include Sony with its Bravia TVs, Samsung and – yes – Panasonic. That said, you are more likely to find a bargain if you chose a second-tier manufacturer....
...Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG Electronics, Sharp and Toshiba all announced plans to build technology into their latest high-definition flat panel TV sets that will enable consumers to access limited internet...
...A series created for the Sony Bravia HDTV featured explosions of paint covering whole buildings, thousands of bouncing balls and giant clay rabbits, all in vivid colour; a Dove Evolution ad showed a normal-looking...
...But while HDTVs based on LCD technology are grabbing an ever bigger share of the flat-panel market, do not rule out plasma TVs....
...In particular, he said the company was seeing better demand for some products, including its Alpha digital single lens reflex cameras, Blu-ray players and Bravia flat panel, high-definition televisions....
...Samsung, which supplies LCD panels used in Sony-branded televisions, sold about 15m of its own flat-screen models last year although it too is planning to ramp up sales amid soaring demand....
...for flat panel high definition TVs....
...In its most bullish forecast, Sony said it expected to sell 17m of its Bravia liquid crystal display televisions in the coming year, an increase of 7m units....
...Earlier this week, Sony launched a $499 add-on module dubbed the “Internet Video Link” for its latest Bravia LCD family of HDTVs and announced a series of new content partnerships including an agreement...
...One reason why performance in Sony’s core electronics division was not able to mitigate forex movements was the savage price declines in the sector, particularly for flat-panel televisions....
...LCD technology is expected to be the dominant flat-panel technology for several years....
...Sony went a step further last year. It announced the ‘Internet Video Link’, a $499 add-on module – which has begun to ship in the US – for its best-selling Bravia line of LCD TVs....
...Sony Trinitron....
...When Sir Howard took control, his inheritance was not pretty, with the flagship electronics brand seemingly short of ideas in a world of Apple iPods, Nintendo DS games machines and Samsung flat-panel televisions...
...Growth in sales may seem like good news for the leading flat panel TV manufacturers, including Japan’s Panasonic, Sharp and Sony brands, and Korea’s Samsung and LG....
...flat-panel televisions....
...There are now 100m televisions in UK homes and year-on-year sales of large flat-panel TVs are up 200 per cent....
...Burdened with declining CRT technology, Sony was slow to build up its own flat panel production capacity and faced the prospect of becoming an also-ran in one of the sectors where it originally made its...
...Next generation TV technologies: As the shift to digital and high-definition TV gathers pace, two flat-panel technologies – plasma and LCD (liquid crystal display) – have become dominant....
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