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According to a Reuters report, Kodak said it wants compensation for the use of the technology and is open to talks with Apple and RIM. But it is asking the ITC to prevent Apple and RIM from importing infringing devices, including certain mobile telephones and wireless communication devices featuring digital cameras.

LG plans to unveil a full line-up of 3D TV models in the second half of 2010, targeting retail consumers. LG currently offers one 47-inch 3D TV, which is sold mostly to businesses due to a high price tag.

Sony will offer streaming movies from Netflix on its PS3 game consoles, in a move that catches up with rival Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Sony also announced their Optiarc America unit is under investigation for anti-trust violations in the optical drive market.

For a projection system, HDI’s approach is compact, too, though not as thin as flatscreens. Their goal is to make their 100-inch diagonal screen fit in a cabinet just 10 inches deep, and to keep that 10:1 ratio at any size.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc will soon sell its own electronic reader to rival Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle.

15 of the biggest broadcast network companies, advertisers and media-buying agencies formed the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) to help improve audience metrics.

TVs featuring LED backlights are about a third thinner than those lit by traditional cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) and have a longer lifespan.

LG, the world’s second-biggest TV brand, said in a statement that it would be unveiling a 15-inch AM-OLED TV at the IFA 2009 consumer electric show in Berlin in September.

The video site, which is owned by Web search giant Google Inc, said it will extend its YouTube partnership program to allow individuals to make money when their videos are deemed eligible.

Gathering at Gamescom, Europe’s largest videogames trade fair taking place in the German city of Cologne, the industry’s bellwethers said they hoped plenty of non-traditional customers would be among the 200,000 visitors expected.

The On2 codec underlies many popular formats, including older Flash players, and with this purchase for $106 million Google is creating yet another battlefront — codecs — in its strategy to take on Microsoft, Apple and Adobe for media delivery.

An EchoStar senior product manager outlined details of the licensing plan at a cable-TV conference. Makers of TV sets, set top boxes, and other relevant products will be able to incorporate Sling technology, which enables re-transmission of recorded and live TV programs over the Internet, into future products.

The factory will be the world’s first plant that handles 10th-generation glass substrates, which are bigger than earlier-generation substrates and help reduce per-panel production costs.

Analysts have raised concerns about the huge costs involved in streaming millions of videos with only a tiny swathe of them being supported by advertising.