LG.Philips LCD Unveils 52-Inch TFT-LCD for HDTVs
December 6, 2002 12:00am
Source: PR Newswire
PR Newswire Leased Lin : World's TFT-LCD Market Leader Develops
World's Largest TFT-LCD Prototype
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Further setting the pace
in the large-area thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays
(TFT-LCDs) space, LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. today unveiled its latest
TFT-LCD offering for HDTVs, the 52W, a 52-inch wide-screen model. The
largest TFT-LCD to ever be demonstrated, the 52W has a superior
resolution of 1920 x 1080, featuring 2.07 million pixels -- more than
seven times a standard definition (SD) television and twice as many
as that found in many HDTVs -- ultimately delivering the best image
available for TFT-LCDs. Leveraging the company's
Super-In-Plane-Switching (S-IPS) technology, the 52W also boasts the
world's widest viewing angle (176 degrees), with a minimum of color
shift and incorporates a modern, "wide" aspect ratio of 16:9.
Until now, commercialization of extremely large TFT-LCDs (over
50-inches) was considered impossible. LG.Philips LCD has successfully
developed the 52W prototype and plans to begin mass production in
late 2003. With the addition of the new 52-inch display, LG.Philips
LCD now offers the widest range of TFT-LCDs for television
applications, including its 13-inch, 15.1-inch, 17W, 20.1-inch, 23W,
30W and 42W displays.
According to a recent report* from Austin, Texas-based DisplaySearch,
Sharp leads the LCD TV market with 48.4 percent market share, while
LG.Philips LCD is close on Sharp's heels with a 35.5 percent share.
Other competitors have no more than a 6.8 percent share. According to
this report, the overall LCD TV market is expected to grow
dramatically over the next four years
-- increasing from 1.3 million units in 2002 to more than 16.1
million units by 2006*. This growth will further accelerate when
digital broadcasting becomes more mainstream.
"LG.Philips LCD is committed to capturing a significant share of the
LCD TV market over the next few years. The development of the 52W is
the latest in this effort and complements our complete line-up of
solutions tailored for this burgeoning sector, which holds tremendous
growth potential for our industry with the implicit advantages of
TFT-LCDs, like lower power, less weight, less thickness, higher
resolution, and a longer lifetime over competing technologies such as
PDP," said Bruce Berkoff, LG.Philips LCD's executive vice president
of marketing.
*Quarterly LCD TV Shipment and Forecast, Q3 '02, DisplaySearch
December 6, 2002 12:00am
Source: PR Newswire
PR Newswire Leased Lin : World's TFT-LCD Market Leader Develops
World's Largest TFT-LCD Prototype
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Further setting the pace
in the large-area thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays
(TFT-LCDs) space, LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. today unveiled its latest
TFT-LCD offering for HDTVs, the 52W, a 52-inch wide-screen model. The
largest TFT-LCD to ever be demonstrated, the 52W has a superior
resolution of 1920 x 1080, featuring 2.07 million pixels -- more than
seven times a standard definition (SD) television and twice as many
as that found in many HDTVs -- ultimately delivering the best image
available for TFT-LCDs. Leveraging the company's
Super-In-Plane-Switching (S-IPS) technology, the 52W also boasts the
world's widest viewing angle (176 degrees), with a minimum of color
shift and incorporates a modern, "wide" aspect ratio of 16:9.
Until now, commercialization of extremely large TFT-LCDs (over
50-inches) was considered impossible. LG.Philips LCD has successfully
developed the 52W prototype and plans to begin mass production in
late 2003. With the addition of the new 52-inch display, LG.Philips
LCD now offers the widest range of TFT-LCDs for television
applications, including its 13-inch, 15.1-inch, 17W, 20.1-inch, 23W,
30W and 42W displays.
According to a recent report* from Austin, Texas-based DisplaySearch,
Sharp leads the LCD TV market with 48.4 percent market share, while
LG.Philips LCD is close on Sharp's heels with a 35.5 percent share.
Other competitors have no more than a 6.8 percent share. According to
this report, the overall LCD TV market is expected to grow
dramatically over the next four years
-- increasing from 1.3 million units in 2002 to more than 16.1
million units by 2006*. This growth will further accelerate when
digital broadcasting becomes more mainstream.
"LG.Philips LCD is committed to capturing a significant share of the
LCD TV market over the next few years. The development of the 52W is
the latest in this effort and complements our complete line-up of
solutions tailored for this burgeoning sector, which holds tremendous
growth potential for our industry with the implicit advantages of
TFT-LCDs, like lower power, less weight, less thickness, higher
resolution, and a longer lifetime over competing technologies such as
PDP," said Bruce Berkoff, LG.Philips LCD's executive vice president
of marketing.
*Quarterly LCD TV Shipment and Forecast, Q3 '02, DisplaySearch
