Plasma Sales Nearly Double from ’05 Level

Research firm DisplaySearch said this week that global plasma display sales were up 95 percent in the quarter ending June 30th compared to the same quarter last year. In all, 2.2 million plasmas were sold in the three-month period from April to June, accounting for about 5 percent of the entire TV market. Panasonic parent company Matsushita remains the industry leader with 28.3 percent of total market share, up from 21.5 percent in the first quarter. LG, Samsung and Philips followed Matsushita.

Interestingly, although plasmas accounted for just 5 percent of global TV sales, they represented 20 percent of sales revenue.

LCD sales, by comparison, made up 22 percent of all TVs sold worldwide in the second quarter. 9.4 million LCD TVs were sold in the period, an increase of 135 percent from the same quarter last year.