Apple and LG Sign Five-Year Deal for Displays

[sushi]

Forget Cinema Displays. I believe Apple will be making a line of televisions with AppleTVs integrated into them. What's a TV today but a big display with a menu.

Do you have a reference for this?

(The integration of Apple TVs into the Apple Cinema Displays.)

 

[matticus008]

LG also makes S-IPS panels for laptops

They, like all the others, do not. There has not been an IPS panel in the notebook space for over three years now, and there has never been one at the pixel density of modern notebooks (except in some 19" "notebooks").

 

[doug in albq]

Forget Cinema Displays. I believe Apple will be making a line of televisions with AppleTVs integrated into them. What's a TV today but a big display with a menu.

do you read the thread before you post into it?
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"Yesterday, 09:33 PM #70
doug in albq
macrumors regular

The substantial up-front payment makes me think this is something bigger than just Cinema Displays.........Is Apple about to put the Television into Apple TV?

http://dougitdesign.com/blog_1_12_09.html"

 

[Shagrat]

If Apple starts to move away from performance and more towards ascetics then we'll have to get our displays and such elsewhere.

"Ascetic:-

A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion."

What have ascetics got to do with this???

"a life of austere self-discipline" "an act of religious devotion."

Ahhaaa! THAT'S what being an Apple fan is all about...it all makes sense now!

PS you probably meant aesthetics, if you'll forgive the modern rendering of the dipthong.

 

[Ping Guo]

If Apple starts to move away from performance and more towards ascetics then we'll have to get our displays and such elsewhere.

But the upside is they pass you the chillum as soon as you enter the Apple store...

Edit: previous poster beat me to it!

 

[Sehnsucht]

I've seen [LG's] TVs next to Vizios and the likes and have yet to be impressed.

Vizio is practically the most god-awful brand you can buy, next to maybe Emerson and Durabrand. They are SO notoriously unreliable. I've worked at Walmart for the past 2 years and have probably seen at least 35 - 40 Vizio televisions returned. The explanations from customers are all the same: They had it for a few months, and then the LCD panel began showing colored lines, or the speakers quit working, or the buttons broke off, or the TV would just refuse to come on at all. I even saw one returned 42" Vizio whose defective slip read, "Started sparking." I examined the back, and sure enough, there was a light coating of soot around the power supply, along with a slight but obvious "burned" smell. Needless to say, I NEVER recommend Vizio to anyone, and if a customer gets interested in one, I do my best to shoo them away and show them the Sonys and Samsungs instead. I figure having seen 3 Samsungs and 2 Sonys returned in 2 years versus 40 Vizios is explanation enough. Vizio sucks.

 

[xbjllb]

Good. Now how about a deal for LG Blu-ray drives

I love my LG Blu-ray drive that also handles HD-DVD as well.

What I don't understand is why such a cutting edge company like LG would want to have anything to do with a backwards company like Apple.

 

[zevot]

wow com'on LG please produce some quality screens for us

 

[Umbongo]

DailyTech are reporting that the LG CEO has said the LCD Market has hit rock bottom.

I think this line may be of relevence to the deal between Apple and LG: "LG also announced last week that it would refocus on high-end mobile displays. The company will invest 577 billion won (about $427 million USD) to build a new production line to produce the premium screens for mobile devices."