It looks like 40-inch LCD TVs are now the fastest and largest-growing trend in the (Korean) market. With a drastic price cut in LCD larger screen prices just this month (by 12-20 percent), we can expect to see a lot more of these products in the market next year.

“The trend favoring big-sized LCDs became prominent as LCD producers, including Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co., cut prices by 12-20 percent this month.

Sales of Samsung’s LCD TVs rose by 417.8 percent compared to a year ago. Among them, sales of 42-inch LCD TVs soared by a whopping 1,188 percent.

Sales of 32-inch and smaller-than-32-inch LCD products increased by 472.1 percent and 232.0 percent, respectively. But those numbers are far below the growth rate of 40-inch or larger LCDs.

The portion of big-sized displays among the total display sales volume also jumped. Share of 40-inch or larger LCDs’ sales was 23.9 percent, an almost three-fold increase from last year’s 8.4 percent.

However, the portion of 32-inch LCDs of total sales volume was 49.5 percent, a minor increase compared to last year’s 43.9 percent.

LCD TVs’ share jumped to 16.3 percent from last year’s 8.4 percent in the local 40-inch flat display TV market. “

“Still 32-inch LCDs are our flagship products. But sales of 40-inch or larger LCD TVs are rapidly growing, taking up ever-larger portions in our LCD portfolio,” said a Samsung Electronics official.

So LCD is really comming in the plasma range.

Source: The Korea Herald

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