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However Atsushi Ido, a spokesman for Toshiba, said by email that while exchange rates always affect businesses, this was not a consideration in the decision.

"The same sentiment goes for the other guys. If Toshiba is getting out, everybody must be getting out," a senior dealer at a European bank told Reuters news agency.

There have been rumors circulating that Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi were going to combine their LCD making efforts. Now, according to Yomiuri Shimbun, that plan seems to be moving forward. The deal doesn"t cover big-screen manufacturing, only small and medium sizes that find their way into phones and tablets. The joint venture will command roughly 20-percent of the market according to TechCrunch when it finally becomes official, with a hefty investment from the semi-public Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, which will own a significant stake in the new company. It may be another day or two before the deal is announced, but consider this a serious shot across their Korean competitors" bows.

Toshiba will turn to Sharp for the 32-inch and larger flat-panel displays used in its LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions while Sharp will procure from Toshiba the chips used in its TVs. The cooperation will begin during the year from April and will slowly build towards 2010 when two goals are expected to be reached: Sharp will supply Toshiba with 40 percent of its LCD modules and Toshiba will sell to Sharp 50 percent of the chips it needs.

The deal provides both companies with a steadier supply of vital components for LCD TVs. The market for such televisions has grown from 161 million units in 2003 to an estimated 192 million this year and is expected to keep on rising on the back of strong demand and competition.

Some of the display panels headed for Toshiba will come from a state-of-the-art ¥380 billion (US$3.36 billion) LCD manufacturing plant Sharp is building in Osaka"s Sakai City. Production is scheduled to begin in 2009. The plant will handle mother glass -- the large sheets on which several display panels are made -- of 2.85 meters by 3.05 meters. This size, dubbed 10th generation, is larger than that used by any other display manufacturer and will make the Sakai plant the world"s most advanced LCD production center.

The large glass sheets also bring a cost advantage for Sharp. The per-inch price of LCD panels drops with increases in the size of mother glass, so the panels are likely to be more competitive than those from rivals. That"s especially important in the TV market, where strong competition has made price a key to success.

Toshiba currently holds a stake in IPS Alpha Technology Ltd., an LCD manufacturing joint venture created with Panasonic and Hitachi. The IPS line uses an older 6th-generation technology and will need substantial investment if it is to remain competitive in the market.

TOKYO – Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it will end production of LCD TVs at Dalian Toshiba Television Co., Ltd. (DLTV) and close down the plant by end of December this year. The decision was taken as part of Toshiba’s measures to reform and return to profit its Visual Products business. Going forward, the company will optimize a balance between in-house production and production by original design manufacturer (ODM) partners, as a means to cut fixed costs and enhance operational efficiency.

Production of TVs manufactured at DLTV for the Japanese market will be shifted to ODM, and Toshiba will continue to supply TVs to the Chinese market through a partnership with a local manufacturer.

Toshiba is reforming its LCD TV business by promoting a facility-light strategy as a means to improve profitability. The company recently announced their transfer of ownership of its Polish TV plant to Compal, and the closure of DLTV is the final phase of restructuring the business. Toshiba aims to see profit in its Visual Products business in the second half of this fiscal year.

Apple is rumored to be investing in part of a $1 billion LCD factory that Toshiba is building mainly to supply panels for the iPhone, as the hugely successful smartphone continues to strain manufacturing capacity with its explosive growth.

Toshiba Mobile Display will construct the plant, which will produce low-temperature polysilicon LCD panels, in the Ishikawa prefecture of Japan, Reuters reports the Nikkei business daily as saying.

Update: Reuters has updated its original report to include a response to the rumor from a Toshiba spokesman. "The report was untrue and nothing had been decided regarding a new plant to build LCD panels for Apple," Reuters reported the spokesman as saying.

Work on the new plant is expected to start by early next year, with production beginning in the second half of 2011, the report noted. Toshiba will reportedly spend about 100 billion yen ($1.19 billion) on the factory.

A preexisting Toshiba plant in the prefecture has a monthly capacity of 8.55 million LCD panels. The new plant is projected to more than double Toshiba"s capacity for low-temperature polysilicon panels.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp will spend about 100 billion yen ($1.19 billion) to build a factory for making small LCD panels, mainly to supply to Apple Inc’s iPhones, the Nikkei business daily said.

The company’s wholly owned unit, Toshiba Mobile Display Co, will construct the facility in Ishikawa prefecture and the plant will churn out low-temperature polysilicon LCD panels, which allow for high-resolution images, the paper said.

Toshiba Mobile Display already makes low-temperature polysilicon LCD panels at a facility in the prefecture and its monthly production capacity of 8.55 million units is projected to more than double with the new factory, the daily said.

Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation and its subsidiaries ceased to be the subsidiaries of Toshiba Group on February 28, 2018. they will continue to develop, sell, and offer repair and support services for Toshiba and REGZA-brand visual products.

First to determine if your Toshiba TV was manufactured in 2015 or later look on the TV Model label located on the back of your television for the manufacture date. The label below illustrates how to find the manufacture date (outlined in red).

TOKYO, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Toshiba Corpplans to spend over 100 billion yen ($1.2 billion) to build a factory to make LCD panels, the Jiji news agency said on Friday.

Its subsidiary Toshiba Mobile Display will build the factory in Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, the report said. It did not mention a time frame for the project. (Reporting by Mariko Katsumura; Editing by Michael Watson)

Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are not quite the same; since LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material. LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LCD displays do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal. In LCDs, there is an even layer of liquid crystal throughout the panel whereas an OLED display has the electroluminescent material only where it is meant to light up. OLEDs, LCDs and microLEDs can be made flexible and transparent, but LCDs require a backlight because they cannot emit light on their own like OLEDs and microLEDs.

Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:

Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:

MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:

LCDs are made in a glass substrate. For OLED, the substrate can also be plastic. The size of the substrates are specified in generations, with each generation using a larger substrate. For example, a 4th generation substrate is larger in size than a 3rd generation substrate. A larger substrate allows for more panels to be cut from a single substrate, or for larger panels to be made, akin to increasing wafer sizes in the semiconductor industry.

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Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology has been utilized since the 1970s in calculators, and in recent years has been used more and more in computer screens and television sets. In a nutshell, it works like this: cells full of light-polarizing liquid crystal trapped between two plates are made, by electrical charge, to rearrange the orientation of the crystals, allowing for different filtering of light going through the cells. This is why LCD televisions are thinner and lighter than the usual cathode ray tube (CRT) variety.

LCD TV monitors have good picture quality and are very space-efficient, but are not without drawbacks. Displaying deep blacks is a problem, which persists even today, and the viewing angles are narrower than flat screen CRT or Plasma technology offer. Historically, the rate at which the picture refreshes has been slower for LCD TV sets than for CRT or Plasma can display. Pixelation/motion artifacts in larger LCD television screens can be a problem as they can be with competing technologies. Despite these drawbacks, recent years have seen great improvements in all aspects of LCD crystal and glass technology, and a decent-quality LCD screen will be a great alternative to its CRT or Plasma counterpart - especially in the smaller 13" to 26" range.

Simply put, the from this LCD television picture is great. Several people saw the latest offerings from Toshiba in our showroom and all were impressed. We were drawn in immediately by the contrast and the clarity of the picture (the 32" screen had some noticeable pixelation/motion artifacts and appeared just slightly paler than the smaller screen. While the inevitable ghosting/motion lag (with LCD) occurred in fast action scenes, it was not terribly distracting and was only noticeable in the most frantic scene our Ultimate DVD (Unapix Ent.) could throw at it: a rodeo sequence designed specifically to test this property. As a test of fast-paced action a viewer is more likely to encounter, we tried the epic fight scene at the end of Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Miramax)-and almost forgot what we were looking for. At normal viewing distances from the screen (about 8" to 10") these drawbacks should be minimal.

The color information these screens displayed was accurate, fantastically vibrant and did not lean to much to red in flesh tones. Viewers may want to tweak the factory settings. Our adjustments were: brightness-37 (easy on the eyes, makes for relaxing viewing); contrast - 50 (down from the factory setting of 80, which is much too high for a dimly lit viewing room); color - 58; tint - (-9) (on a scale of -50 to 50); sharpness - 27 (almost as a universal for televisions, a good sharpness setting will be very low).

We watched a variety of scenes, and all of them were realistic. These sets do a nice job - displaying fairly dark blacks, which has always been a challenge for LCD technology -even today less expensive LCD monitors will display only a very dark gray. Again, the Toshiba LCD screens handled well, producing a black much darker than the average screen can. The listed contrast ratio is 500:1, which means that the brightest white light is 500 times more intense than the darkest black. This is high for LCD and allows the colors in between to stand out well.

We were especially impressed with the clean differentiation of varying shades of color in a sequence called Desert Rock. Fire and explosions on our Ultimate DVD were very sharp, and rippling water looked real enough to swim in. These screens, The viewing angle problem that LCD technology has been known to have may be a thing especially the smaller, were a real pleasure to watch.

The viewing angle problem that LCD technology has been known to have may be a thing of the past; certainly these two screens made us think so. Any conceivable arrangement of viewers should satisfy everybody involved. We were surprised to find out that the viewing angle was very close to 160º. We knew these sets were high-quality, but this still exceeded our expectations. And this wide angle viewing quality is testimony to the claims of some major LCD panel manufacturers that the quality of the glass and LCD crystal technology can have a drastic impact on quality viewing. Our comfort point for viewing was just over 8" away, approximately level with the screen.

The picture size settings were: Natural, for 4:3 content, Theater Wide 1, which enlarges the edges more than the center and cuts off small parts of the top and bottom; Theater Wide 2, which enlarges with no distortion, but cuts off small parts of the top and bottom; Theater Wide 3, which enlarges the width disproportionately; and Full, which shows widescreen content in its originally intended format with no conversion. For a 4:3 picture, purists will prefer to use the Natural setting, and the rest will probably choose Theater Wide 2 for scaling to use the entire screen.

The Toshiba LCD televisions are well designed and attractive, with a sleek and classy look. Some new televisions have an overdone space-age feel, but here the silver is balanced and appropriate. The glass overlay face is a nice touch.

The television options are well thought-out. One highlight feature is a split screen option that can show two television channels or one channel and a frozen frame - good for game replays. Another exceptional attribute is a channel scan feature that allows viewing of the current channel in a larger image while scanning the rest by displaying seven smaller images. The generous size of the LCD panel allows these images not to look cluttered. (Note: some LCDs can also function as computer monitors, but these do not.)

The dimensions of the LCD television sets are 32 ¼" x 18 3/8" x 5 ½" for the 26" unit, and 43 ½" x 21 ½" x 6 ½" for the 32" piece. The pedestal stand is 16 ½" wide x 12 ½" deep, and the bottom of the LCD sits about 4" from the table or stand surface. The speakers are 3 1/8" wide for the 26" unit and 4 ½" wide for the 32" set, and are almost the full height of the sets.

High quality picture, ample sound, and solid menu options characterize these Toshiba LCD TV offerings. They are versatile and manufactured for quality viewing. The manufacturer"s suggested retail price (MSRP) of these sets are $3,299 for the 26" screen and $4,499 for the 32" screen. Even at the MSRP, but especially at the "street" price, these screens are a tremendous value. Toshiba is at the high end of television quality, and these are some of their best products.