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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Funai Touch Sensitive Image Projectors Could Arrive By 2010

3:20AM Joanna Stern | Put this thing in an iPhone and sign me up! Funai’s new projector can project images that can recognise finger movements. More »
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Funai (Sylvania, Symphonic and Emerson) Will Sell HDTVs With Blu-rays In ‘Em

5:20AM Jason Chen | Funai, whose subsidiaries are more familiar to us as Sylvania, Symphonic and Emerson, is planning on selling LCD HDTVs with Blu-rays on-board starting summer 2009. The company’s previous successes in recent years with combo units (TVs with VCRs and TVs with DVDs) totalled up 40% and 20% of their sales in the US respectively. So how much will this low-end brand charge you for the all-in-one experience? CrunchGear says the target price for a 42-inch will be between US$1100 and US$1300. Keep in mind that’s a price for something launching a year from now. [CrunchGear] More »
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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Philips Won’t Sell TVs in North America Anymore

3:42AM Matt Buchanan | If the rampant out- and cross-sourcing between LCD and plasma TV makers didn’t tell you that it’s a nasty and brutish time in the TV biz, this should: Philips is officially pulling out of the US market, and is licensing its brand name for TVs over to Funai—best known for supplying Wal-Mart’s Black Friday TVs and DVD players.
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