HD Guru’s Best Of CES 2023 Product Awards
From a home theater entertainment aspect, CES 2023 is becoming an interesting show in comparison to its original emphasis. There were fewer companies with fewer products, particularly in home audio, than we are used to seeing over thirty plus years. Fortunately, what we did see…
Sharp AQUOS Performance TV Brand To Return To The U.S. With An `XLED’ Bang
They’re baaaa-ck! The Sharp AQUOS TV brand, now under the control of Sharp Corp. once again after seven years in licensing captivity, officially announced its re-entry into the U.S. TV category with an ambitious “tier one” performance line of 4K Mini-LED quantum dot televisions it…
New Sharp-Branded Roku TVs Headed For U.S. Stores In 2022
With the Sharp TV brand back in the stable of Foxconn-controlled Sharp Electronics for the United States, Roku said Monday that new Sharp-branded Roku TVs soon will be coming to North America in 2022. Roku also used the occasion of the Sharp Roku TV brand…
Reports: Samsung To Procure More TV Panels From LG Display In 2022
Samsung Electronics is planning to step up procurement of LCD (and possibly even OLED) TV display panels from Taiwanese and S. Korean sources, including rival LG Display, in order to reduce its dependence on Chinese sources, according to reports out of Asia Thursday. Samsung Electronics…
VOXX, Sharp Sign Letter Of Intent To Acquire Onkyo Home Entertainment
VOXX International, the parent company of AudioVox, Klipsch and other home and automotive CE brands, in association with Sharp, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the home A/V business of Onkyo Home Entertainment, the companies announced Monday. Both VOXX and Sharp will have…
Foxconn Electronics Plant Gets Nixed On Tax Credits For 2019
The Foxconn Technology Group’s Wisconsin manufacturing campus, once proposed as the site of a massive new television production factory, will not be receiving any state tax credits for work done in 2019, according to reports citing a decision by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The…
Report: Sharp To Split Off Display Business, Pursue MicroLED
Sharp is planning to split-off its display business on October 1 into a wholly owned subsidiary called Sharp Display Technology (SDT), according to a recent report on Japanese web site SankeiBiz. According to the report relayed by Korean business news site, The Elec Wednesday, Sharp…
Sharp, NEC Announce Plans For Video Display Joint Venture
Although neither company has been a huge factor in the U.S. TV market under their respective brands for the past few years, Japan’s NEC Corp. and Sharp Corp. announced their intentions this week of forming a joint venture that will combine NEC Display Solutions, Ltd….
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