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Japan’s Matsushita unveils world’s largest plasma TV

By Xinhua

Tokyo : Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. officially unveiled its newly developed 150-inch plasma display television, the world’s largest, at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Tuesday.

The new television, whose high-definition screen is 1.87 meters high and 3.31 meters wide, is to be launched into markets by 2009 if results of market research permit, company officials said, adding that the potential customers would be commercial facilities.

The company has yet to decide the price of the new TV, industry sources said.The world’s previous largest flat-screen display television was developed by Sharp Corp. – a 108-inch liquid-crystal display.