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LG Electronics (LG), a major player in the global flat panel display and AV markets, unveiled its plans to achieve the top global position in the TV market with a fundamental shift in the way viewers consume content, from simply watching TV to "using TV". |
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Samsung, as many HD TV enthusiasts know, is one of the premier LED and LCD TV manufacturers. Aggressive niche brand positioning has given Samsung an edge as one of the industry's quality and high performance leaders. Samsung's upcoming strategy to blitz the 3D LED and LCD TV market may, however, be a bit ambitious for even an industry leader. |
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Toshiba will launch its first Blu-ray Disc products in the Japanese market: three models of BD recorders, one player and two LCD HDTV/BD Combos. |
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HDTV sets are moving into a new direction, or dimension. The next major update to home theaters, coming in 2010, is 3-D technology. In fact, some HDTV 3-D sets are already on the market, and Mitsubishi has two 3-D-ready Home Theater TV lines ranging is size from 60 inches all the way to 82 inches. |
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It's almost impossible to keep up with the twists and turns in the wireless home network market, and particularly the fight to achieve a universal standard for high speed, short range connections geared to multimedia and HDTV. With the original frontrunner, UltraWideBand-based WiMedia, now consigned to Wireless USB, other UWB solutions have fallen out of favor, at least for now. |
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Looking just a few years out, research firm Research and Markets is pegging the worldwide TV and video hardware market to be worth $213.9 billion, a staggering increase of 24.4% from 2008. Today that market is worth $171.9 billion, a jump of 8% from 2008. The Americas account for 37.2% of worldwide revenue, and TV sales lead the revenue share with 77.4% of the market's overall value |
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The South Korean electronics giant shipped 1.3 million LCD-TVs in the United States during the period from July through September, equaling a 16.8 percent share of the market. This gave Samsung a 1.1 percentage point lead over U.S.-based Vizio, which held a 15.7 percent share in the third quarter with shipments of 1.2 million LCD-TVs. |
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There are so many HDTVs on the market now and prices have come down dramatically, making shopping for a set more complicated than ever. So it pays to ask the right questions before you drop the big bucks. Here's a checklist to get you started. |
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