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….
Sharp Pushes Back U.S. TV Re-launch Plans To 2021
Sharp Corp., now under majority control of Foxconn, will not be using CES 2020 to launch a new Sharp branded television line in the United States this year, a top executive with the company’s U.S. sales operations told HD Guru. “We’re not announcing any plans…
Could Sharp Be Looking To Take On LG’s Rollable OLED?
LG’s rollable 4K Signature 65R9 OLED TV, which is now expected to reach market in 2020, apparently soon might be getting some competition in the rollable TV display space from an unusual challenger — Sharp. Japan’s Sharp Corp., which is now majority owned and controlled…
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