Television prices are dropping faster than expected, and Sony’s not too happy about it.
Prices for liquid crystal display TVs should drop between 25% and 30% this year. That’s between 5 - 7% more than Sony anticipated, Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, said in a meeting with reporters in San Francisco last week.
Over half of all Americans are staying home more than they did two years ago to enjoy high-tech entertainment between their own four walls, according to research by Marketing Daily.
Nearly as many say new technology such as widescreen TVs and HDTV has turned TV-watching into a social event.
According to the BBC website, four major broadcasters claim the trial of high-definition television (HDTV) on Freeview boxes has been “a success”.
Toshiba has been forced to put back the UK release of its HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players due to a “minor reliability issue” with one of the machines’ internal components. Due to ship this month, the HD-E1 will now arrive in December.
Likewise, the HD-EX1, originally scheduled to ship before Christmas will now appear in shops in January 2007, Toshiba said in a statement.
The next generation format war has just hit the United Kingdom on Monday, with Samsung introducing its DMP-BD-P1000 Blu-ray disc player to the shops. Samsung advertises this as being the world’s first commercial Blu-ray disc player.
One in six households in the US now has at least one high definition-capable TV (HDTV), according to new consumer research.
Television manufacturers will see a surge in cumulative HDTV sales over the next few years, which will boost the overall market value to $65 billion by 2009, according to “Adoption of High-Definition TVs and Services,” a new study from Parks Associates.