Retailers Looking to Move Plasma TV's
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Hanging stockings by the chimney with care? Retailers hope that St. Nicholas soon will be there &#151; to hang a 42-inch plasma-screen TV. As prices drop for high-end televisions, sales are leaping. Retailers expect to sell twice as many plasma-screen televisions and three times as many LCD televisions this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
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The most desired electronic gift item for this holiday season is a plasma TV. You might, however, want to consider something that wasn't even in the running: L.C.D.
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Global demand for liquid crystal display  (LCD) TVs is expected to post annual growth averaging 23.4  percent for the next five years, outpacing estimated growth in  plasma TV demand, a Japanese industry group said on Wednesday.
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Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can't fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.
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If you build it, or in the case of Circuit City's Web site, re-build it, they won't necessarily come. So, to ensure visits to the new CircuitCity.com, the electronics retailer yesterday started rolling out a multimedia push that promotes a "Plasma Screen TV Makeover" online contest that carries a grand prize of five flat-screen TVs and home-theater equipment worth &#36;20,000.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell will sell a wider variety of television sets made by other manufacturers over its Web site but denied reports that it plans to stop making LCD TVs. A number of industry blogs reported Thursday that Dell would exit the LCD display market as soon as June, citing a story in the Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily. That move would allow the company to focus on selling more profitable PCs, the report said. On Thursday, Dell acknowledged that it is making changes to its TV line, but said it will continue to sell Dell-branded televisions with screens of 37 inches and smaller. "We will soon offer a wider assortment of televisions from leading manufacturers that feature the latest technology and meet Dell's high standards for performance," said Dell spokeswoman Rachel Lyon. The first step in that plan was Dell's move in February to add Sony LCD televisions with screens between 40 inches and 46 inches to the range of products sold on Dell.com, she said. Dell also sells TVs made by Matsushita ElectricÂ (Panasonic), Pioneer, Samsung, and ViewSonic. "Nothing has changed from what we communicated in February," Lyon said. If Dell's television lineup remains constant, it will be one of the few parts of the company to avoid sweeping changes in coming months. Dell is in the midst of a corporate reorganization that includesÂ laying off 10 percent of its 88,100 workersÂ in an effort to rebound from sinking profit and market share, the company said when it reported quarterly earnings last Thursday. The changes also include an overhaul of the company's core business model. On May 24, the company saidÂ it will soon begin selling desktop PCs in Wal-Mart retail stores, marking a departure from the "direct sales" approach it used to become the world's largest PC vendor until 2006. In recent quarters,Â Dell lost that title to rival Hewlett-PackardÂ in a slump that pushed company founderÂ Michael Dell to return to the job of chief executiveÂ after stepping aside to become chairman in 2004. It will take time until those reforms can begin to stop Dell's losses. The company was the only one of the world's top five PC vendors to ship fewer computers in the first quarter of 2007 than in that same period in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday by iSuppli. Dell held onto its second-place ranking behind HP even though its shipments dropped 6.8 percent. In comparison, HP shipped 26.5 percent more PCs during the first quarter than a year ago, and Acer. showed a huge increase of 45.8 percent, allowing it pass Lenovo and move into third place, iSuppli said.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s recent decision to move away from plasma TV operations is a reflection of how harsh the market for flat-panel TVs has become.
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With Black Friday in the rear-view mirror -- complete with eye-popping bargains and frenzied shoppers lining up overnight to buy that "must-have" 42-inch plasma television -- Wall Street now looks to Thursday to find out whether heavy markdowns took a toll on sales and profits.
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Cable and satellite television  providers will fight for upscale subscribers on a new  battlefront this holiday season: The local electronics shop.
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DonÂt buy that high-definition TV yet. Competition may force the prices down further.
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GM snags some hefty television real estate.
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Investor's Business Daily - Flat-panel TVs, notebook computers and video game consoles are hot items this holiday season. And apparently, Best Buy stores are where consumers want to buy them.
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Colour television (CTV) makers expect Indian consumers to switch over to top-end plasma projection and liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions at a rapid rate.
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Given up for dead less than a year  ago, plasma TVs are making a comeback, with manufacturers  boosting sales forecasts amid a continued shortage of LCD TVs  and surging demand in developing countries.
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With competition ever more fierce in the LCD TV market, some retailers are finding the most viable option is to join forces.
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Electronics retailers are selling more HDTVs than ever, but are making less money on them, so they are tightening return policies, dropping entry-level models and pushing additional servers.
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With Black Friday in the rear-view  mirror -- complete with eye-popping bargains and frenzied  shoppers lining up overnight to buy that "must-have" 42-inch  plasma television -- Wall Street now looks to Thursday to find  out whether heavy markdowns took a toll on sales and profits.