SONY to abandon the rear projection TV is committed to LCD TV and OLED Technology

SONY (Sony) said recently that will stop the television, becoming the latest company to withdraw from the market. Rear projection TV was once seen as a technology that can compete with LCD and plasma technology in the flat screen TV market.

SONY said it would focus resources dedicated to liquid crystal display (LCD) TV and OLED technology to meet the demand for flat-panel TV market. CRT TV consumers abandoned boxy, flat-panel TV favored slim, promote the rapid growth of the latter.

SONY spokesman Shinji Obana said that SONY is located in Japan and overseas three factories scheduled for February next year, the production of rear projection tv. Seiko EPSON (Seiko Epson) said earlier this month, has stopped production and sales of rear projection tv. Hitachi (Hitachi) at the beginning of the withdrawal of the North American market rptv.

With the electronics manufacturers in recent years began to launch more and cheaper LCD and plasma TV, once dominated the large size flat-panel TV market shrinking demand rptv.

In October this year, SONY in the fiscal year ended next year in March, the rear projection TV sales target was reduced by 43% to 400 thousand units.

Source: International Electronic Business