10 posts and columns on flat panel

Flat-Panel TV Sales Flatten in U.S.

in News on March 27 at 2:55 pm PT

Flat-panel TV sales run into a maturing market in the U.S.
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Samsung Spins Off LCD Business

in News on February 21 at 5:47 am PT

Samsung, currently the biggest LCD panel maker in terms of sales, will spin off its unprofitable LCD operations on April 1 into a new firm, called Samsung Display Co. As The Wall Street Journal notes, analysts had widely expected the spinoff, as the LCD industry shrinks and the Korean electronics giant focuses more on higher-margin OLED screens for TV sets and tablets.

There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!

in Commerce on January 8 at 11:26 am PT

Camcorders and MP3 players go splat!
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At CES 2012, 3-D Is Riding Shotgun to “Smart” TVs

in Commerce on January 6 at 10:48 am PT

3-D isn’t going away — it’s becoming just another check-off feature, as TV sets get “smarter.”
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Samsung Electronics Profit Falls 18 Percent

in News on July 28, 2011 at 11:45 pm PT

Samsung Electronics Co. said its second-quarter profit fell 18 percent amid weak demand and lower prices for consumer electronics broadly, though rising sales of smartphones led its cellphone business to more than double in profitability.

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Sharp, LG Warn of TV Glut

in News on October 28, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Sharp Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. warned that a glut of inventory for flat-panel display televisions will continue to pressure prices during the critical year-end holiday shopping period. The inventory build-up of liquid crystal display televisions is the result of a surge in production by global TV makers this year following a period of reduced output in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when consumer spending plunged.

Kylo and Loop Advance Viewing Web Video on TV

in Personal Technology on April 14, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Hillcrest Lab’s Kylo browser and Loop control make it easier to watch Web content on TV, but the two are still works in progress.
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Samsung Edges Out TV Rivals

in News on February 17, 2010 at 8:12 am PT

The boom in flat-panel television sets has so far been a boon for Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung’s TV manufacturing business has nearly doubled in size since 2006–the year it surpassed Sony Corp. to become the world’s biggest seller of TV sets–and the company is closing in on 20 percent global market share in TV unit sales, a threshold not reached by any manufacturer since the earliest days of the industry more than 60 years ago.

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LCD Makers' Increased Capacity May Stifle Recovery

in News on October 6, 2009 at 10:47 am PT

The rush by Asian liquid-crystal-display makers to ramp up production at home and to invest in new plants threatens to curtail the nascent recovery in the flat-panel market. LCD makers in Asia have just started to see their earnings recover in the second quarter after prices began to rise thanks to production cuts made last year, component shortages and strong demand from China.