Maybe in two or three years time you'll read they are quitting uk, they may eventually be down to only selling tv's in their home market japan or worst they could scrap their consumer tv division. They are slowly headed pioneer's way. It's a shame, the market will keep getting more mediocre chinese and korean brands, the great japanese brands would be no more except sony..
Yes, I was coming here to say the same thing. Panasonic still sells TVs here in Canada.you shouldn't use the words north american sector, they left the US tv market around 2015, but in canada their tv's are available and in mexico too they continue to support some tv models.
this article is related to australia, vestel doesnt manufacture anything for panasonic outside europe.Nowadays entry level pana tvs are made by vestel and there top end panels come from lg so they are only left to tweak the tvs with various gains they can determine through silicon technologies. From a consumer perspective, so what, they may as well buy an Lg or Samsung and retailers are more than happy to tell folks were the panels come from so they can save £xxx in most instances by paying for a competitors product.
Next could be Philips.
And? I was giving a general overview of why the Brands seem to be in declinethis article is related to australia, vestel doesnt manufacture anything for panasonic outside europe.
Philips? You need to remember Philips TV's have not been Philips for a long time. Philips sold it's TV division to TPV technology Chinese company due to it not being competitive anymore.
So actually Philips TV's is a prime example of how bad things could get for Sony and Panasonic TV market. Getting to a point to sell off their TV sector to a Chinese firm because it got so bad.
Without TPV Technology the name Philips in TV's would probably have been dead a decade ago.
I am aware of this but if you could post some sales figures of their TVs, we can gauge if they could be the next to fall. Ultimately they are here to innovate and make profits.
They hired about 200 of pioneers best engineers, once pioneer had exited the plasma party they had for a time chance to make hay for quite a few years there plasmas were spot on.I know this is going back quite a few year's but over here in the days of CRT displays Mitsubishi were one of the leaders in large (for those times) 4:3 TV sets, I had one myself a "33 which for those day's was big. But when flat screen displays started to emerge with plasma and LCD display's they threw the towel in.
It would be a shame if this eventually happens with Panasonic over in these shores. As has been said.... Pioneer all over again? In fact it was Panasonic who, I believe, "bought" some of Pioneer's tech and hired some of their engineers when they finished production on their "Kuro" brand.
My 24 inch Panasonic bedroom tv has been going eight years strong, not missed a beat and I would hope the next one would also be a Panasonic. Oh wellOne of best if not the best company for tv sets and thy will soon go down this way.
My Viera plasma over 10 years stil rockingMy 24 inch Panasonic bedroom tv has been going eight years strong, not missed a beat and I would hope the next one would also be a Panasonic. Oh well
LG are in trouble. Its mid and low range TV's haven't been selling well and LG Display and LG Electronics aren't seeing eye to eye recently and are in debt. LG Display (the people that supply the panels) are ditching LED due to poor sales of their LED TV's and focusing on OLED. Where LG Electronics are turning away from OLED as OLED's have too many issues and high return rates, so are focusing on micro LED and filed two patents for micro led.The problem is that TVs have become simple commodities. All that research and investment to produce higher-end TVs and adapt them to various markets is probably not worth much anymore, since most people can't really tell the difference between a £400 and a £4000 TV - or if they could, they don't care. I think that's why LG are seemingly doing okay - they do have some really good TVs, but they also sell a lot of entirely boring TVs.