Pioneer Set To Transform Itself With New Brand Campaign Pioneer who failed to grab more than 2% of the plasma TV market after the launch of a multimillion dollar branding campaign this time last year is taking another stab at rebranding the Company. They have also said that the Company wants to get out off the mass market to concentrate on the premium market.
Further Shake Ups For Philips Consumer Electronics In a further shake up of their struggling consumer electronics division Philips has agreed to transfer its TV assembly facility to an electronics manufacturing services company based in Luxembourg. Philips said the transfer would help improve the financial performance of its TV business through the optimization of its global supply base.
Panasonic Pursues Plasma Path According to European Electronics News, regardless of the popularity of LCD or even new technologies such as OLED, Panasonic says that sees Plasma technology as ?a key element of their long term flat panel TV strategy?.
Police Raid Top Electronics Show According to reports out of the UK & News Ltd, German customs police raided Hyundai stand at IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics fair currently being held in Berlin.
LG To Increase Sales 27%--Spends Big On R&D South Korea's LG Electronics told Reuters it aims to achieve a rise of 27 per cent in display sales by 2010 and has underlined this by making more investments in marketing and research and development.
LG To Put Bluetooth Into TVs According to a story this morning in Network World, LG Electronics will soon launch a new range of LCD and Plasma TV sets featuring Bluetooth wireless networking.
Samsung & GPEG Invent Video Wall With No Gaps According to reports, by using either 40 or 46-inch Samsung digital information display panels, a video wall that removes the unsightly gaps found with other LCD solutions can be constructed.
Samsung Aims For Control Of Retail Display Market Samsung says it has launched 20 new large format display monitors for business and retail needs and claims it will to double its global Large Format Display (LFD) sales to almost US$480 million this year by focusing more on the Business Display Solutions market.
TV Sales Boom But What About The Second Half The 2008 Beijing Olympics is over and consumer electronic vendors are now turning to new TV technology to drive second half sales . Among models set to be launched are extremely thin TV?s from Pioneer, Panasonic Samsung and Sharp. Sony is set to roll out a new range of TV?s that allow plug and play devices to be connected . However uncertainty remains as to whether TV sales will continue growing.
LG TV Strategy In Trouble As Sales Fall LG's local newspaer the Korean Times claims that it is crucial that LG Electronics immediately implement more decisive measures to stem its falling flat-screen TV market share.
TV & Chips From Intel With An EPG On The Top In the same way that they put wireless on a chip processor Intel is set to put TV in a chip coplete with a linked Yahoo EPG type service that will deliver program information to a screen.
Global LCD Shipments Start To Fall According to digitimes.com, global sales of large-size panel shipments in July decreased by some 7.7 per cent or down to 32.7 million units but the day was saved by the thriving notebook sector, where panels are currently the only profitable segment, according to a report by WitsView.
LCD Sales Up, Samsung, Sony & LG Clean Up According to DisplaySearch, sales of LCD and plasma TVs helped boost North American TV shipments by 26 per cent to some 9.3 million units, a trend that has been repeated in Australia where TV sales have also risen over the past few weeks.
Sony OLED TV On the Shelves By 2009 Sony says it plans to sell ultra-thin television based on organic light-emitting diode technology (OLED) as early as in 2009 in Europe, the company said earlier this week.
OLED TV In OZ In 2009 Australia could get OLED TV in 2009 with both Sony and Samsung exploring the launch of the new screen technology for late 2009. Both Companies have shown OLED technology at the CES Show with Sony already selling a 11" model in the US and Japanese markets.
LCD TV Sales Surge But 1080p Not Important According to reports, global LCD TV sales grew by 25 per cent quarter-to-quarter in Q2, in the latest figures released by Quixel Research today.
Gold Medal Winning Performances From TV Sellers Forget about the swimming, basketball or even rowing, the gold medal winning performances are coming not from the Birds Nest in Beijing but rather from the retail floor in places like Nunawading.
Pana Pioneer And Sharp Set To Be Hurt Sharp and Panasonic who also make panels for Pioneer could face shortages of glass for their flat panel TV's in the peak period running up to Xmas following a major fire which occurred at the Asahi Glass plant in Japan last week according to DigiTimes.
Samsung To Take On Pana In AV Pro Display Market Samsung Australia is set to move into the Pro AV market with both large display solutions and new content management systems. During the next week the Korean Company is set to announce that they have appointed 4 new distributors in an effort to take on the likes of Panasonic and NEC who already have established Pro AV display divisions.
Samsung To Ramp Up Sales With Cashback Offer In order to crank up sales for their home theatre range, Samsung Electronics has announced a series of cash back offers for its home theatre range, designed the company says, to make it easier and more cost effective to experience the complete home entertainment set-up.
LG Cuts Back LCD Production As TV Market Cools LG Display, the world's second- largest maker of liquid-crystal displays, says it plans to reduce its LCD output by about 10 per cent from full capacity by the end of August because of ``uncertainty'' in the market, according to a report in bloomberg.
Pioneer Shares Crash As Plasma Sales Slow Shares in Pioneer Electronics crashed 22% on Friday following the release of a new report that reveals that Large LCD TV's are now starting to get traction in the over 50" market which in the past has been dominated by plasma.
Has Microsoft Invented The LCD Killer? LCD screens have plenty of advantages?they are relatively cheap; they consume less power than plasma displays and have good resolutions.
Sharp Debuts Low Power Solar Powered LCD TV According to about-electronics.eu, Sharp has exhibited a prototype of a 26-inch LCD TV whose power consumption is drastically low at the ?Environment Showcase? set by Japan?s Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the recent G8 Summit.
PDPs Face Pressure As LCD Prices Plummet According to digitimes.com, LCD makers are stepping up their pressure on PDP competition in the 32-inch TV segment, which is seeing more robust sales than larger-size segments amid the global economic downturn.
LG Reveals The Secret To Their TV Success LG has told a packed audience of Sydney retailers that they are not only #1 in the consumer technology market but that they have over 90% recall of their brand among consumers.They have also revealed the steps that consumers take prior to making a purchase.
OLED TV & Mini Notebook Panels Set For Sales Surge According to DisplaySearch, there will be a 167 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for shipments of OLED panels from 2007 to 2015, and a CAGR for mini-note PC applications of 74 per cent over the next eight years.
Sony Teams Up With Toshiba For OLED Development According to Reuters, Sony and a number of other Japanese companies are set to team up to jointly develop key technologies to make large-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for use in TVs.
LG To Supply Displays To Apple, Nokia & Sony According to reports, life's not only good for South Korea's LG Display, but seems to be getting even better as the company will soon supply liquid crystal display panels to Apple for its iPod player, LG Display Chief Executive Young-Soo Kwon said.
Philips Switches Off Its Monitor Business According to overseas reports, electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics will transfer its entire monitor and IT displays business to Hong Kong-based TPV Technology.
LG Invents Toughest Monitor In The World For those looking for a display that can take a beating- and I mean a real beating, without smashing it into a thousand pieces, LG has just the thing for you.
Large LCD Panels Suffer Price Drop According to digitimes.com, there was a sharp drop in large-size panel quotes for July but that many suppliers believe that prices will begin to stabilise in August and go up in September when demand picks up, according to the report.
TV War Gets Brutal & Nasty Only One Winner Consumers A brutal flat panel TV war has broken out with retailers pumping millions into catalogues and vendors tipping millions into TV marketing and below the line giveaways in an effort to entice consumers to buy a new TV system prior to the Beijing Olympic Games.
Sharp Invents Solar-Powered LCD TV Sharp it seems, has the answer to at least some of the worlds carbon emission problems with its solar-powered LCD TV.
Global PDP Shipments On The Increase According to Displaybank, worldwide Plasma Display Panels (PDP) module shipments reached 1.39 million units in May, rising some 10 per cent compared to April.
Confirmed: Samsung Blu-Ray / Foxtel HD Free Giveaway As reported last week by Smarthouse, Samsung is giving customers that purchase one of their selected HD LCD TVs the choice of either Foxtel HD with the iQ2 set top box or a Samsung Blu-ray player
Internet Ready Sony Bravia TV's And New Content Service Soon Sony is set to roll out a new Internet content service spanning movies games and music however several Hollywood studio's have failed to sign on for the new service which is expected to be launch later this year in Australia. The Japanese Company is also set to roll out several new devices that can be connected to each other over the web. Among those products will be Internet capable Bravia TV's, PS3 consoles, Vaio computers and portable video games devices such as the Sony PSP.
Free Foxtel HD+ With Samsung TV Coming Samsung is set to bundle the new Foxtel Full HD+ set top box with their new range of flat panel TV's. The deal is in response to Sony?s Playstation PS3 deal which will see the Company give away 35,000 PS3 gaming/Blu ray consoles.
Massive TV War Looming Samsung And Pana Set To Match Sony PS3 Offer Consumer buying a flat panel TV pre the Beijing Olympic Games are set to be the big winners after Sony kicked off what looks set to be a brutal giveaway war between Panasonic, Samsung and Sony with their free 35,000 Sony PS3 giveaway promotion.
Panasonic To Mass Produce 37" OLED TV Panasonic are tipped to be planning the mass-production of 37-inch OLED televisions within three years claims reports out of Japan.
LCD Panel Makers Expecting Order Rush According to digitimes.com, LCD panel makers are expecting price pressure in July as brand-name vendors and system makers clear their inventory, but rush orders will appear in August when clients prepare for the Northern Hemisphere back-to-school demand.
Sony To Give Away Tens Of Thousands Of PS3 Consoles Following on from their success earlier this year Sony has decided to giveaway tens of thousands of PS3 Playstations in an effort to boost sales of their Bravia TV range prior to the Olympics.
Panasonic Commercialising OLED Panels According to reports, Panasonic is working towards commercialising OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels and is looking to put TVs with 37-inch OLED screens on the market within 3 years.
Flat Panel TV Market To Peak Between 2009 and 2011 Then What? The flat panel TV market will peak between 2009 and 2011 claims research group DisplaySearch however the market in 2008 will be driven by falling TV prices, the DTV transition and the demand for higher resolution,? noted Calvin Hsieh, DisplaySearch?s Director of Research.
Panasonic Braces For TV Boom With New Roles In another sign that the home electronics market is in a steep growth phase, Panasonic Australia has announced that it has created the new position of ?Assistant Product Manager TV? and is currently recruiting for this role.
Panasonic Introduces Energy Ratings Labels Panasonic says it will introduce energy rating labels for its televisions following the Federal Government?s voluntary scheme announcement today.
Feds Call For Discussion On Digital TV Dates Could Be Changed The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced the release of a discussion paper covering a legislative framework for the digital television switchover which could be bought forward from 2013 subject to a legislation change.
Blu ray Not Popular With Consumers Less than ten per cent of HD TV owners plan to buy a Blu-ray Disc player, research group NPD has claimed. However 45 percent of HDTV owners claimed that they were familiar with the Blu-ray Disc format.
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