In an interview, Panasonic says:
We are currently advancing research and development in view of OLED production at IPS Alpha's Himeji Plant for the future, but nothing specific has yet been decided on the commercialization of our OLED TV at the moment."

According to some reports, Matsushita is planning to mass-produce OLED panels on the new lines to be installed and dedicated to OLED panel production at the Mobara and Himeji plants (which is slated to begin operating in January 2010) of its subsidiary IPS Alpha Technology Ltd and assemble them into TVs at its plants both inside and outside Japan.

Matsushita made IPS Alpha its subsidiary with a view to maintaining the vertical integration of its TV business in the era of not only LCD TVs but also OLED TVs.

It is easy to imagine that Matsushita, which always advocates the idea that "TVs are the face of home electronics manufacturers," is scrambling to move up the schedule from "2015," the year indicated by President Otsubo.
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