AUO: LED/CCFL TV price gap significantly reduced

According to reports, AUO vice president of global Paul Peng recently said that the price of the mainstream LED backlight TV this year will be reduced to only 50% more expensive than CCFL tv. Just last year, the price of LED backlight TV is also expensive CCFL backlight TV doubled.

Paul Peng also believes that LED TV shipments this year will be ten times last year, 40 inch LED TV in the price will be expensive CCFL TV 50%, but two backlight mode does not exist between 18.5 inch and 19 inch size TV prices will. Manufacturers in the direction of development of LED is not the same, some of the development of large size high-end models, while others develop small and cheap models.

LED backlit TVs in the global TV market share last year, only 10% this year, this figure will grow to 20%. Paul Peng believes that with the LED backlight TV and CCFL backlight TV prices continue to shrink, the demand for LED TV will be further improved.

News from the industry said that in order to compete for more market share, some manufacturers began to price adjustment. January LED backlight TV prices decreased by 5-6%, the average selling price of LCD TV in January fell 1-2%.