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Fujitsu Gets Out
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 06, 2005

After many years in plasma-manufacturing partnership, Fujitsu and Hitachi have agreed to change their relationship. Specifically, Hitachi will acquire Fujitsu's stock in Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited (FHP) as well as Fujitsu's plasma display panel (PDP) technology patents. Once both companies have provided financial assistance to eliminate FHP's excessive debt by the end of March, the stock transfer will proceed quickly, making FHP a consolidated subsidiary of Hitachi.

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Fujitsu Says Goodbye to Plasma
user  |  Jan 02, 2008
A stalwart plasma brand is giving up on U.S. sales. Fujitsu will no longer sell plasma sets except in Japan.
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Fujitsu's Plasmavision Presages Great Things Ahead
Barry Willis  |  Feb 08, 1998

A two-day stop in San Francisco on Fujitsu's road show last week was enough time to let me scoot downtown and scope out the company's new Plasmavision 42 display. Jon Iverson and I were mighty impressed by it last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, where it was demonstrated under less-than-ideal conditions. This month, in a suite on the 35th floor of the ANA Hotel, the Plasmavision once again stood out as an exceptional feat of engineering.

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Full-time HD Channels Due in Fall
HT Staff  |  Apr 28, 2003
High-definition programming will expand substantially this year, with the addition of up to three new full-time HD channels from pay-per-view-provider iN Demand. The announcement from the New York-based company was made April 28 by CEO Steve Brenner.
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Funai working on touch-sensitive projectors
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2009
In a few years, your projector-based home theater could literally be at your fingertips. Funai is working on projector technology that responds to touch: you wave your finger over the image, and the projector senses exactly where you're pointing. ...
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Funai's Blu-ray Combo Platter
SV Staff  |  Aug 14, 2008
Remember those funky old cathode-ray TV/VCR combo units?  Thought combo units were a thing of the past? Not so fast, there, Buck Rodgers. Funai might not be the most popular name you see on the shelf of your local big-box retailer, but you do...
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Funky Sound ’Phones Boast 4G and Wi-Fi
SV Staff  |  Dec 05, 2017
Headphone makers are really stepping up their game lately. A couple months ago it was Sennheiser’s Ambeo, a headset with 360-degree microphones built into its earpieces. Not to be outdone, startup Funky Sound Studio plans to introduce its take on the smart headphone next month at CES 2018.
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Furutech Fancy Power Cable
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2008
PT Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Not sure if that's the market for this, but Furutech just launched a new power cable. Yup, gorgeous new power cable. How much would you pay for a Powerflux Piezo Ceramic series with...
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Future Netflix Gains Set the Stage for Price Hikes
SV Staff  |  Jul 22, 2015
Netflix streaming is projected to double and then some in the next three years, increasing from 8.6 billion hours in the first quarter of 2015 to between 14.3 billion and 21.8 billion hours by 2019, according to a report by MediaPost. This would catapult the popular streaming service from its current 6 percent share of “linear TV viewing” in the U.S. to between 12 and 22 percent based on estimates by MoffettNathanson Research.
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Future of HDTV Is Bright with LECs
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Display technology researchers are on a roll. A professor at University of California Santa Barbara has discovered a way to combine lighting technologies to create an even brighter, more energy efficient, longer lasting back-light than LED by...
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FUZE Gets Blu
SV Staff  |  May 23, 2008
How embarrassing. You have the latest and greatest FUZE whole-home media system, and since the advent of Blu-ray, it's obsolete. Mortifying, if you ask me. No worries -- ArcSoft to the rescue. ArcSoft is partnering with FUZE to provide Blu-ray...
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Gadget Mania
SV Staff  |  Jun 28, 2007
For those who are camping out all night waiting for an iPhone (they go on sale tomorrow at 6 pm), I say save your money. Check out suckbusters.com and read more. And if you do go ahead and get one, drop me a note and let me know what you think. ...
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Gaining Control
John Sciacca  |  Mar 26, 2012

Control4 unveiled two new processors at this year’s CES, the HC800 ($999) and the HC250 ($599). They offer way more power for system control and provide a much zippier interface when controlling different areas of the home or browsing a media library.

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Gaining Momentum, MQA Hires Label Exec as CEO
SV Staff  |  Aug 04, 2016
In yet another sign of its momentum, music technology company MQA has hired Warner Music executive Mike Jbara to lead the company as CEO and sit on the Board of MQA Ltd.
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Game Downloads Surpass Discs for First Time
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2019
The traditional game console may be slowly losing ground but it is still strong — especially Sony’s PlayStation 4.
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