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...times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices [of flat TVs] will be cheaper for consumers this holiday season, but not cheap enough to have them explode off the shelves," says Chris Connery, vice president of market research at DisplaySearch, a consulting firm based in Austin, Texas...
...with the Netherlands' Royal Philips Electronics, became the world's biggest maker of the lcd panels used in flat-screen TVs and monitors in 2003, with 22% of the global market. A good chunk of those are sold in Europe. According to the Austin, Texas-based market research firm DisplaySearch, about 40% of all lcd monitors and 30% of all lcd TVs are sold in Europe; this year LG expects to sell about $5 billion worth of goods there. Small wonder, then, that the LG.Philips unit's operating profit soared 307% last year, to $935 million. Last week the joint...
...Hitachi, the largest manufacturer of plasma screens, spent $40 million in its plasma business this year, and next year plans to double that. Plasma "is much more ready for the market at this moment, especially in large sizes," says Wang Chien-erh, a vice-president at market research firm DisplaySearch. "lcd TV makers are trying to catch up." How successful they'll be "depends on how much and how quickly they improve quality...