Japan’s JVC will launch new flat-panel LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs in the U.S. this year that it says are the world’s thinnest, it said Saturday on the eve of the International Consumer ...

The two plan to release a jointly developed LCD TV in 2009, the source added. Funai spokesman Naoyuki Takanaka said his firm was in talks with JVC on a possible alliance but nothing had been decided.