Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Sony Overtakes Samsung in LCD Sales

Market researcher DisplaySearch released a report this week showing that Sony was the market leader in LCD revenue sales in the fourth quarter of '06 while Samsung led in units sold. Sony overtook Samsung from the third quarter by increasing its revenue market share from 15.1 percent to 17.4 percent, while Samsung declined slightly from 15.5 percent to 15.0 percent.

Sony also led the microdisplay market with a 42 percent share, followed by Samsung and Mitsubishi.

Panasonic remained the plasma industry leader, followed by LG Electronics and Samsung.

Interestingly, 35 percent of all TVs sold in Q4 were HD, up from 27 percent in Q3. Samsung was both the HDTV and overall TV industry leader.

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