LED TV vendors are planning to shift their focus more onto edge-lit units in 2014, which are expected to make up as high as 60% of LED TVs in the market during the year. The penetration rate for direct-type backlit LED TVs has been ...
Tags: LED TV, Edge-Lit Units
China and Korea panel makers have plans to produce 48- and 49-inch TV panels in 2014 on their 8.5G lines, with some makers expected to also produce Ultra HD TV panel technology in the same sizes. Market observers believe the makers are ...
Tags: Panel Makers, Ultra HD TV Panels
Ultra HD TV pricing in China is likely to drop to that of Full HD units for the October 1 holiday period in China, according to market observers. While Ultra HD TV panel pricing has not dropped significantly in recent months, TV vendors ...
Tags: Ultra HD TV, Full HD Units
Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker as well as LED packaging house, is expected to see consolidated revenues for third-quarter 2013 increase 5-10% sequentially due to growing orders for LED backlight units ...
Taiwan panel makers are reportedly lowering their shipments for Ultra HD TV panels in the second half of 2013 due to lower-than-expected sales as well as to increased competition from Korea- and China-based makers, according to industry ...
Tags: Ultra HD TV, panel makers
Ultra HD TV panel pricing could drop by as much as 10% throughout August 2013, according to market observers. The panels have already dropped from US$500 to US$450 while 55-inch units have dropped from US$580 to US$540, the observers ...
Tags: HD TV Panel, LCD TV panel
LG has announced full-backlit LED 55-inch and 65-inch models to expand its ultra high-definition 4K line of TVs. In addition, there has also been released an 84-inch UHD model, which is the first to be made available to buyers in the United ...
Tags: Ultra HD LED, LED TVs
Sharp and Toshiba used the occasion of "CE Week" to announce that their first their first Ultra HD TVs will arrive in August. Sharp will have a single 70-inch Aquos LCD model that will sell for $8,000, while Toshiba will have three Ultra HD ...
Seiki Digital,which helped pull Ultra HD TV pricing down out of the stratosphere this spring when it started selling a 50-inch set for about$1,500,will be going even smaller this summer with a 39-inch model it says will sell for$700. ...
Tags: HD TV, Seiki, price, resolution
The growing adoption of the open cell business model in the LCD panel industry has generated different views on the future of the backlight unit (BLU) sector, said Wang Pen-Jan, chairman of Taiwan-based BLU maker Radiant Opto-Electronics. ...
Tags: Open Cell, Blu Makers
If you've checked through our most recent TV Ratings and don't see a model or series you're considering, we might be checking it out right now. Here are the HDTVs currently being tested in our labs. Among the notable models is the Sony ...
Tags: Sony, Ultra HD TV
The first Ultra HD TVs we saw cost $18,000 to $40,000, so it was hard not to notice when a lesser-known company called Seiki blew the doors off Ultra HD TV pricing when it recently started selling a 50-inch set (model SE50UY04) for just ...
Tags: Seiki, Ultra HD TV
Lextar Electronics is expected to see gross margin rise from 6.82% for the first quarter of 2013 to 13-14% for the second due to growing orders for LED backlight units used in TV, monitor, tablet and smartphone panels, according to market ...
Tags: Lextar Electronics, LED backlight
Sony has started promoting its new 4K Ultra HD TVs, which begin shipping this week. The marketing campaign features Garth Davis, who most recently co-directed Jane Campion 's critically acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake. After seeing ...
Tags: Sony, 4K Ultra HD TV, Consumer Electronics
Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
Tags: HD TV, Plasma TVs