Andrew Everard
11 May 2009 15:31
This is the 3m x 2m display from Shinoda Plasma , the company founded a few years back by one of the leading lights of Fujitsu's abandoned flatscreen programme. It's being promoted as the first screen on the market able to show lifesize human beings,
Filed under: plasma TV, giant TV, Shinoda Plasma, PTA, 145in plasma
Andrew Everard
13 February 2009 15:58
While the questions continue to fly about the decision by Pioneer to pull the plugs on its display business, some interesting market analysis from the USA shows just why the company struggled to make headway even in a country where the big-screen TV is
Filed under: plasma TV, flatscreen TV, LCD TV, US TV market, Vizio, Pioneer
Andrew Everard
03 December 2008 07:46
The main R&D tower here at Samsung's complex here in Suwon, some 65km south of Seoul, rises 38 floors, dominating the skyline for miles around. 9000 people work in this gargantuan bulding, out of a total of almost 23,000 on this site. That means it
Filed under: plasma TV, LCD TV, Korea, testing, Samsung, Suwon
Andrew Everard
25 November 2008 04:38
Driving North-west out of Seoul towards Paju, home of one of LG's major display panel facilities, the crippling city traffic soon thins out. Here the highway runs beside the river, and the country's car companies take advantage of the light traffic to
Filed under: plasma TV, flatscreen TV, LCD TV, LG, LG Paju
Andrew Everard
24 November 2008 15:08
So the world is undergoing financial meltdown, and most consumer electronics companies are wringing their hands, battening down the hatches, lashing themselves to the masts and preparing to weather the storm. So why are the guys in LG 's Twin Towers HQ
Filed under: plasma TV, flatscreen TV, home cinema, LCD TV, TV sales, LG
Andrew Everard
12 October 2008 12:02
Yes, it's a telephone. But not just any telephone: this is the Fuji-type phone which in 1935 started Fujitsu . Which is why it now has pride of place in the subterranean Technology Hall at the company's HQ in Kawasaki, which I visited a few days ago.
Filed under: plasma TV, computer history, Fujitsu, image search