Commentary: How much longer will LCD dominate the TV market?

digitimes.com 21 Jan '13, 4am

Commentary: How much longer will LCD dominate the TV market?

Commentary: How much longer will LCD dominate the TV market? Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Monday 21 January 2013] Panasonic is shutting down its only dedicated plasma TV manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, marking the total defeat of the technology by the LCD competition in the consumer market. The two technologies were in a dog fight in the last decade, but somehow LCD got the upper hand. While LCD is now the dominant technology, TV industry players - including set vendors and panel suppliers - have been trying to sell users the idea that the age of the even more amazing OLED technology is forthcoming. The reason is obvious - to promote growth in a TV market where LCD growth is already slowing. Indisputably, OLED offers better picture quality than LCD. But isn't it also the case that plasma was touted as having better picture quality, such as true black, than LCD? ...

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