Samsung’s extremely high-end 85” Ultra-HDTV screens have sold out in Seoul despite a massive 40 million Won ($36,800) price ticket. The Korea IT Times says that Samsung’s debut offering put just 77 units into the retail chain in mid-January, and they had all sold by mid-February, prompting Samsung to start adding additional supplies thanks to […]
Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung’s consumer electronics unit, speaking at a briefing in Seoul, said the electronics manufacturing giant will boost investment in high-end Smart TV sets, and in particular OLED-based screens. Samsung is to release a new 55” set this coming weekend in South Korea. Not to be outdone, LG is also ramping […]
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO delivered his views on the growing enthusiasm for OLED screens. “They’re awful,” he told an investor conference organised by Goldman Sachs in San Francisco. “If you ever buy anything online and really want to know what the colour is, as many people do, you should really think twice before you depend […]
Research from analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has revealed found that 75 per cent of households in the US have at least one high definition television (HDTV) set – up from 23 per cent five years ago. Over the past five years, 52 per cent of US households adopted HDTV. In addition, 51 per […]
Nearly a quarter of high-definition television (HDTV) owners in the US (22 per cent) purchased their televisions for the specific purpose of watching the Super Bowl, according to the forthcoming Sports and Technology Study V by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). No other sporting event comes close to prompting that many purchases of HDTVs. Accordingly, […]
The displays are incredibly expensive, there’s next to nothing to view on them, and zero by way of consumer playback equipment – yet seemingly more than a half-million 4K displays will be sold this year, according to data from NPD Display Search. Sales volumes will ramp up as retail prices fall, reaching more than 7 […]
LG Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of KRW 50.96 trillion ($45.22 billion) and a net profit of KRW 91 billion for full-year 2012. Despite a 6 per cent revenue decrease from 2011, operating profits increased significantly in 2012 to KRW 1.14 trillion from KRW 379 billion in full-year 2011. Fourth quarter 2012 consolidated revenues were […]
Just about every large-screen display now sold in Western Europe and North America is ‘3D enabled’. However, Blu-Ray packaged media sales remain sluggish, and take-up of 3D transmissions is – at best – modest. However, a new study from IHS-Screen Digest says that Japan’s enthusiasm for 3D Blu-Ray is “growing steadily” despite Japan’s economic climate. […]
A report from international market research and consulting firm NSR – Ultra-HD via Satellite – finds, over the long term, Ultra-HD channels represent a respectable, but niche opportunity for satellite companies. This nascent market is expected to start at a low base in 2015 with just 15 channels being demanded by the global cable TV, […]
The constant evolution and innovation in the world of TV technology have been successfully fueling consumer demand and driving consistent growth in the industry over the last few years. In the Southeast Asia region, flat panel TVs have continued to register a surge in demand in 2012, selling over 8.3 million units in the first […]