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A model wearing shutter glasses watches a full HD 3D monitor panel developed by LG Display, Thursday. LG will roll out more 3D-enabled flat-screens at a time when major TV and PC makers are shifting their panel focus to 3D from the current 2D. / Courtesy of LG Display By Kim Yoo-chul, The Korea Times LG Display, the world's second-biggest producer of LCD panels, has started mass production of what the company claims is the world's first 3D full high-definition (HD) panel. "We've started shipping the panels to a global PC manufacturer," Claire Ohm, a company spokeswoman, said Thursday. The official, however, declined to give further specific financial details such as the deal volume or LG's next targets for the panels. LG said the new product was a 23-inch 3D monitor LCD panel for use with shutter glasses that delivers full HD resolution. The product offers picture quality that is almost twice as crisp as HD 3D displays currently available in the market. "...

LG Display, the world's second-largest flat-screen maker, inked a contract to build an eight-generation liquid crystal display (LCD) plant in Guangzhou, China, company officials said Tuesday. The company will invest $4 billion in its new manufacturing plant, which will begin operations in 2012 and eventually acquire an annual capacity of 120,000 LCD substrates. To establish the factory, LG Display agreed to establish a $1.3-billion joint venture with the city of Guangzhou. LG Display will own 70 percent of the new company, while Guangzhou city and a yet-to-be-determined Chinese television maker will share the remaining 30-percent stake. The company hopes that the upcoming LCD plant will put it in a better position to exploit the rapidly expanding Chinese television market. The market for LCD televisions in China will grow to 40.8 million units in 2012 from 25 million units this year, edging the size of the North American and European markets during the span, according to market res...