Since it was revealed in Steve Jobs biography that he was working on a TV as one of his last projects and he believed that he had cracked the secret to a simple HDTV, rumors have been going round that Apple will soon launch a smart HDTV. And now a Chinese newspaper China Business News claims that they have heard from “informed sources” that Foxconn, Apple’s well know manufacturing partner has started trial production of the much rumored Apple HDTV, with aim to start mass production by end of this year. AppleInsider posted the following from translation of China Business News’ report:

In particular, the publication cited its sources as saying that this initial build plan is taking place in one of Foxconn's Shenzhen plants as a trial production run, which typically produces a small number of assembly-line-quality prototypes for Apple to put through its design test verification stages. No further details were reported.

The only thing we have heard from our sources about Apple HDTV is that Apple is looking at different screen sizes ranging from 40-inch to 60-inch. We haven’t heard anything about when the production will start or how much it will cost.