Sanyo Launches 2 New HD Plasma TVs Sanyo has launched two new plasma televisions with built in HD digital tuners. The stylish new plasma televisions are designed for those who want to be able to view the free-to-air HD channels with a high quality picture.
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.
TV Market Gets Tough For Pioneer Pioneer has pulled the plug on its free delivery and installation service of its 50 and 60 inch plasma TVs, saying the toughening market and economic conditions were behind the move.
New $14,000 Plasma Eliminates Aging Struggling luxury consumer electronic brand B&O has announced a new A$14,000 plasma TV which is almost quadruple the price of the best on offer from the likes of Sony, Samsung and Panasonic. The asking price is justified they say because the TV will last longer because of a built in self calibrating system.
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Panasonic Revamps Plasma Range Panasonic has unveiled nine new plasma screen that are equipped with a new plasma panel with ‘black box’ processor and driver technologies developed in Japan for a ‘magnificent picture.’
Pioneer Offers Huge Price Drops To Increase Sales According to a statement from Pioneer, following strong unit sales of the HD KURO plasma screens over the past few months, Pioneer Electronics says it has completely sold out of its PDP-508XDA 50 inch HD plasma screens in Australia, with only limited unit stock of the 42 inch HD model available.
Philips Quit Plasma TVs As Going Gets Tough Philips who are struggling to survive in the brutal flat panel TV market have now said that they are set to quit the plasma TV market altogether. It was only a few weeks ago that Philips cut a deal to quit the US TV market.
3D TV Goes Live In Oz Samsung hopes to bring movie viewing and gaming to another dimension with the launch of its Series 4 Plasma TVs. This new TV range (450 Series) is the world’s first 3D-ready HD TV, allowing viewers to take 3D into their living rooms.
LG Reveals Seamless Plasma TV LG is rolling out a bezel-less plasma TV in an effort to address the ‘need’ of consumers for a large screen with an eye-catching design.
Pioneer Quits Plasma TV Models Pioneer Electronics which is reeling from poor plasma sales has decided to stop producing 42" plasma screens. Instead it will buy panels from arch competitor Panasonic, and Hitachi which last month pulled out of the Australian market.
Panasonic Enter Wii Gaming Market Panasonic is set to snare a share of the game console market by bringing out a Wii proof plasma TV for use with a Nintendo Wii games console.
Plasma Screens Public Enemy No.1 The Australian lounge-room packed with DVD players, plasma screens and other carbon-emitting electronic gear could become an environmentalist's worst nightmare, according to a Deloitte executive.
New Plasma Strategy By Hitachi Hitachi Ltd who recently quit the Australian market after reporting losses of over $900 million during the past 12 months is now trying to flog their manufacturing capability to anyone who will buy it.
Panasonic Plasma Power Halved By 2009 Matsushita Electric Industries in Japan has announced that it will release a new plasma TV incorporating a technology to reduce the power consumption by half, due in the second quarter of 2008.
Dodgy Pioneer Plasma & Sony PS3 Scam Exposed A woman who spent $22,000 ordering 16 Pioneer 50-inch plasma TVs and 16 PlayStation 3s (PS3) from a Gold Coast website that claimed it could source cheap hardware from China and the United States, is considering selling her car after the website business failed to deliver the TVs and PS3s.
Plasma Market Grows 62% Pioneer Declines 39% As Hitachi, Philips and Fujitsu quit the plasma TV market comes news that the flat screen technology is surging, with vendors like Panasonic, Samsung and LG recording record sales according to research company Display Search.
How Harvey Norman Screwed Up Over Hitachi Plasma The demise of Hitachi raises serious questions about the business practises of Harvey Norman and the way in which this retailer, who has a major share of the consumer electronics marketplace makes demands of vendors.
Plasma Makes A Comeback With Hitachi, Fujitsu and Philips out of the Australian plasma TV market, companies like Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung are expected to benefit as demand for plasma picks up. Also helping these vendors is price reductions and research that shows that plasma is still seen as being a better technology to LCD TVs.
9mm 50" Plasma From Pioneer Revealed Pioneer Electronics executives have said nothing in public about a move to LCD TV but behind the scenes they have admitted that discussions have taken place with recent investor, the Sharp Corporation, about the possibility of a Pioneer branded LCD TV being launched this year. At their 2008 press conference, the focus was totally plasma with the company looking to jump on the "thin-is-in" TV trend by announcing a 50-inch super-thin (9mm) plasma panel.
Hitachi Demands Indemnity Over Plasma Full HD Saga Hitachi the Japanese plasma manufacturer is asking customers to indemnify both themselves and Australia's largest CE retailer Harvey Norman from any future claims over Full HD. And if customers do, they get up to $1,500 and they can keep their TVs.
Pioneer Forced To Restructure As Plasma Sales Slump With yesterday's news that plasma TV sales have fallen an additional 19 percent to $3.8 billion in the last quarter comes news that struggling plasma manufacturer Pioneer is set to restructure their distribution operations in Australia yet again in an effort to be competitive against the likes of Samsung, LG and Panasonic.
Pioneer Struggle In Plasma Market New Factory Canned Pioneer which is credited with delivering the best plasma in the world has posted an 80 percent fall in quarterly operating profit due to slow plasma TV sales that cancelled out robust demand for its car electronics products, and it cut its annual outlook to below market expectations.
Hitachi Bleed Millions Trying to Sell Plasma TVs UPDATED: The future for Hitachi in the plasma market is today being questioned after the Company announced yet another round of big losses for their CE operations.
Pioneer Reveals Kuro Plasma Final Price Changes Many readers have written to SmartHouse confused and angered over the apparent price increase of Pioneer’s 50-inch full HD Kuro plasma. With the TV due to officially hit stores next Monday, we have the full explanation of the price changes – and don’t worry, it’s good news for those of you busting to get your hands on one of these beauties.
Panasonic Sued Over Plasma Claims Panasonic, which fired up the flat panel debate of LCD TV Vs Plasma earlier this year, is now being sued for marketing claims relating to its plasma flat panel range.
Aussie Government May Ban Plasma TVs Your fridge, washing machine and dryer all have energy ratings - and now a report commissioned by the Federal Government is recommending that your plasma and LCD TV should be rated for energy efficiency too. Problem is, most of the plasmas on the market today wouldn't even rate a single star, and thus would be banned if the recommendations are followed through.
Will Hitachi & Fujitsu Survive In The Plasma Market? The future for Hitachi and Fujitsu in the flat panel plasma TV market looks grim following the announcement that Sharp has purchased a stake in Pioneer Electronics. The move will most likely kick-start further realignment in Japan's overcrowded electronics sector, which needs to pool resources to survive.
Inside The World's Best Plasma TV A key part of Pioneer’s strategy to differentiate itself in the market is the millions that the company is tipping into plasma R& D research. This is no more evident than with its new Kuro platform.
Pioneer Plasma The Worlds Best TV Exposed In a move to cement its position as the best TV screen company in the world, Pioneer has revealed the all new project Kuro 60” plasma TV along with new Blu ray players and new high end home theatre kits.
Pioneer Rolls Out New Blu-Ray And Home Theatre Kit Pioneer is promising users of full HD experience with its launch of new audio and video products that the company claims will deliver 1080p and 24Hz picture performance.
Pioneer Signs Apple Ad Agency To Push Kuro Plasma Pioneer has signed on its first advertising agency: TBWA Disruption Consultancy to help it reinvent its brand as the company rolls out its latest Project Kuro plasma TVs. TBWA is the same ad agency used by the likes of Apple Computer and Adidas.
Hitachi Struggles In Plasma Market As Philips pulls out of plasma, Hitachi which two years ago aquired the patents for plasma TV from Fujitsu has announced it is struggling to survive in the plasma TV market.
Politicians Want to Ban Plasma According to the Sun newspaper in London the opposition party in the UK - the Conservatives -want to ban plasma TVs.
Pioneer Fights For Its Life With New Brand Attack During the next few months Pioneer is set to fight for its very life in a TV battle which will see very few plasma manufacturers left standing. In an effort to snare a slim share of the over 50-inch TV market, the Japanese company to set to roll out a massive new marketing campaign at this week's CEDIA Expo in the USA.
Will Pioneer's Kuro Plasma Sell? Pioneer Electronics' new Kuro plasmas will launch next month despite reports that global plasma sales will fall to 15 per cent by late next year.
Is The Plasma TV Market Going To Survive? The flat panel TV market is rapidly changing. Margins are wafer thin, the risks are high no more so than for plasma manufacturers which are now faced with the dilemma of having to cough up additional investments in an effort to hold onto a declining market share. So will plasma disappear?
Is This The Last Big Year For Plasma? Is plasma set to peak? The experts are saying that 2008 will be the year when plasma sales will flatten out and then in 2009 start to decline.
Panasonic Extends Life Of Plasma To 100,000 Hours Panasonic which recently rolled out the controversial advertising campaign claiming that plasma is better than LCD TVs has now gone one step further by being the first company to extended the life of its consumer 1080p plasma displays to 100,000 hours from 60,000. This puts Panasonic way ahead of any other plasma manufacturer.
42" Hitachi Plasma Overpriced When Compared To LCD Which is best; a 42"1080P HD plasma TV from Hitachi at $4,399 (only when configured with a separate HD set top box) or a 1080p 60" Sony Bravia LCD TV with the HD tuner built in for just $600 more.
Hitachi & Fujitsu Set To Bleed As Plasma Battle Heats Up COMMENT: As major vendors spend millions launching a new generation of LCD and plasma TV screens, vendors like Hitachi and Fujitsu are being left behind as retailers dump them for brands that are backed by major advertising campaigns.
Samsung Calls In Lawyers Over Panasonic Plasma Claims Samsung which sells both plasma and LCD TVs has called in its lawyers following the release of a national Panasonic advertising campaign that claims more Australians prefer plasma over LCD TV after viewing the two TV technologies together.
Big Plasma Deal Between Hitachi and Panasonic Owners First it was Samsung and LG that cut a deal to share plasma technology, now Hitachi and Matsushita Electric, owner of the Panasonic brand, are set to share manufacturing capability.
LG To Shut Plasma Plant In further indications of the declining plasma TV market, LG has said that it is shutting a key plant that makes plasma display panels in an effort to cut costs and rejuvenate its business in the sector.
Matt's The Man In Panasonic TV Battle Australia's number one plasma TV vendor has just upped the ante in the battle with LCD TV vendors by rolling out an impressive new range of plasma TVs which will be backed by a massive marketing campaign featuring Olympic track sprinter Matt Shirvington.
Plasma TV Is Better Than LCD And Thats Official Plasma is better than LCD TV technology according to hundreds of Australian consumers who were exposed to a blind test of the two flat screen technologies by international research group Synovate.
Plasma TV Takes Pioneer Down Pioneer Electronics has blamed the crash of the plasma TV market for year-end losses. The news comes only days after the company launched what has been described as the best flat screen TV in the world.
Pioneer To Roll Out Worlds Best Plasma Australians will have to wait till at least September 07 to see the next generation of plasma screens from Pioneer which have been described as the best TV screens in the world today.
SmartHouse Responds To Fujitsu Fuijitsu General claims that we were wrong when we recently indicated that the plasma panels inside a Fujitsu Plasma screen were OEM manufactured. But instead of coming back to SmartHouse, Fujitsu marketing chose to issue a statement to Appliance Reseller.
Fujitsu Fails To Deliver As Plasma Crashes Depending on whose research one believes, the plasma screen market is in decline with several retailers around the world reporting falls as much as 34% during the past 6 months. One company set to be hurt by this downturn is Fujitsu, one of the original inventors of plasma.
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