
It is official three giants Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Canon are joining forces to take the LCD world by storm.
On one hand Panasonic and Canon have both accepted to take 24.9% ownership of Hitachi Displays, and will use the investment to continue their advancement in LCD technology.
And on the other hand Hitachi’s small- to medium-sized LCDs and, OLEDs will be made accessible to Canon for its cameras and other products.
Furthermore,Canon will continue to develop various types of displays in order to realize cross-media imaging which is a sophisticated combination of imaging input and output equipment for data and still images that allows users to intuitively process images and information in any context in daily life or industry.
All of that sounds like some excellent news for the digital photography world and you can expect to see fruits off that alliance by March 31, 2008.









Samsung Electronics America Inc. has launched the Samsung SPF-83V which is a new 8 inch digital photo frame.The frame uses Microsoft technology which enables photographs to be viewed wirelessly from sharing sites such as Windows Live Spaces or from your PC of course. Additionally the 8-inch frame sports an 800 x 600 resolution display with a 500:1 contrast ratio and 200 nits of brightness.The Samsung SPF-83V frame also communicates with Windows Media Player and open standards such as RSS.Christopher Franey, vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing at Samsung Electronics America explained:

