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2007 was the biggest year yet for LCD TV. Shipments of LCD screens reached nearly 400 million during the year, with year-on-year figures leaping 70 per cent in Q4. According to market analysts DisplaySearch, the average screen size also grew by 10 per cent. Samsung continues to be the biggest supplier of TV panels, followed [...]

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Hands up if you’re getting heartily sick of overt product placement in blockbuster movies? Now hands up if you’re looking forward to the upcoming Iron Man film? Well, we’ve got bad news. LG has inked a deal with Paramount to use the comic book feature to promote its mobile phone division. Expect hero Tony Stark [...]

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Luxury Danish home entertainment brand Bang & Olufsen, which for years has successfully cultivated its own particular type of consumer, has jettisoned president and chief executive Torben Sorensen after reporting a dramatic fall in profits. According to B&O chairman Jorgen Worning the company’s board of directors now wants to refocus on Bang & Olufsen’s core [...]

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All three games giants are smiling as sales of their next-gen systems boom. Nintendo leads the pack, saying that its profits for the first nine months of the fiscal year have doubled. The company has sold more than 20 million Wii machines worldwide. Sales have risen 84.7 per cent YOY in the same period, from [...]

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Osaka Government officials have warned Sharp that a company with mob ties has been subcontracted to help build its ambitious new state-of-the-art LCD factory, under construction in Sakai, Osaka. Officials warned the CE giant that machinery leasing company Daiwa Juki has been closely linked with Yamaguchi-gumi, one of Japan’s largest and most feared crime syndicates. [...]

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In news that will surprise few, market analyst The NPD Group has confirmed that sales of HD DVD dropped away sharply as news of Warner’s decision to stop supplying HD DVD discs filtered through to retail. Blu-ray player sales accounted for over 90 percent of all dedicated HD disc players during the week ending January [...]

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The Nintendo Wii has now sold more than 5 million units in its native Japan. Sales data compiled by Enterbrain also reveals that Nintendo’s flagship software release Super Mario Galaxy is being outsold by both Mario Party 8 and its new Wii Fit system. In related news, speculation is mounting amid financial circles that Sony [...]

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The analogue TV should be consigned to the boot-sale of history. So says Dixons Stores group, parent of dixons.co.uk, currys and PC World. DSG has announced that it will no longer stock analogue-only TVs; no further orders will be placed for analogue televisions once existing commitments are fulfilled. The group is also terminating analogue tuner [...]

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