| Dell selling Sony Bravia LCDs after quitting plasma
TWICE: Dell has now started selling another vendor's television models with the recent addition of two Sony BRAVIA LCDs to its online store. The BRAVIAs, a 40-inch and 46-inch, join Dell's LCD line. Dell has sold printers and music players from other companies, but this is the first time it has added a third-party TV manufacturer. The company said it is considering adding products from other vendors, but it gave no further details. In other news, Dell has also confirmed that it will no longer place its brand on Plasma HDTVs. The company will only sell LCDs that are 37 inches or less. Current Dell models HDTVs larger than 37 inches will be discontinued after they are sold, said company spokesman Dwayne Cox. "This decision is consistent with our plan of action to focus investments on areas of the consumer business where we can provide the most value and have the highest return for our shareholders," Cox said in an e-mail to the American-Statesman.
THT Research - Weekly OEM/ODM Newsletter
Quanta Storage has won orders for slim type DVD-ROM drivers from Sony NEC with shipments to begin 1-2Q07. Quanta's alliance with Sony will exempt it from certain royalty payments.
Nokia CDMA orders
Compal Communications has won ODM orders for around 4M low-end CDMA phones from Nokia for 2007.
Via wins UMPC processor orders from US
VIA Technologies has won orders for UMPC-use processors and chipsets from OQO (US).
Sony LCD TV orders
Wistron has received orders for 32- and 40-inch LCD TVs from Sony with shipments to begin 2Q07. Wistron also makes LCD TVs for HP, Sharp, and Westinghouse.
Apple TV digital video boxes
Inventec has received orders for Apple TV digital video boxes.
How High Definition Television Works: HD 101
For most of the last 50 years, it was much simpler to purchase a television and enjoy the available programming. In fact, in the early days of television all you had to was plug the set in (and pull up the rabbit ears) and enjoy yourself. Anyone could do it. Today there are so many industry acronyms and abbreviations to wade through: SDTV, EDTV, HDTV, 480i, 480p, 525p, 720p, 1080i, native display, aspect ratio, letterbox, analog, digital, progressive scan, interlaced, non-interlaced, composite video, component video, and DVI. Then there are different display devices like plasma, LCD, DLP, LCOS! And what, you may wonder, is the difference between a television and a monitor? It's enough to make your head spin. But even if you purchase the right product but don't have the right signal, you may not be getting true high definition.
Hitachi Introduces Its New Multimedia Products
This February Hitachi is bringing its 1,080 line 50-inch plasma HDTV to American consumers. Hitachi's new HD1080 50-inch HDTV (model P50H401) incorporates breakthrough technology that is the result of extensive research and development and more than 1,300 patents for flat panel technologies. 2007 will mark Hitachi's 51st year of television production. By engineering a new method of energizing pixels on a panel, Hitachi has improved picture quality by increasing the resolution to match the dominant 1080 HDTV broadcast format in the vertical domain. The new TV will feature a total of 1.3 million pixels utilizing a 1280x1080 pixel array.
In addition to the 50-inch P50H401, Hitachi's 2007 H401 series includes the 42-inch (P42H401) and 55-inch (P55H401) models which offer unrivaled clarity and seamless picture performance using exclusive technologies.
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