Archive for the ‘Paul Gagnon’ Category

Syntax-Brillian Files for Bankruptcy

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

by Paul Gagnon, Director, North American TV Research Syntax-Brillian (BRLC), plagued by financial and supply chain issues, filed late Monday night for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, an end that many have been anticipating for months following numerous management, financial and market disruptions since Q3'07. While the company continues to ship Olevia ...

New tru2way Cable Standard Gains More CE backers, But is it Another CableCARD Debacle?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

by Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Market Research Word just surfaced that Sony has joined the ranks of Panasonic, LGE and Samsung in signing agreements with major cable operators to support tru2way bidirectional digital cable. Negotiations on "two-way" digital cable products have been underway for years between CE manufacturers ...

Philips Exits US TV Manufacturing

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

by Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Research In a move that is not too surprising, Philips has decided to withdraw from manufacturing TVs for the US marketplace, according to an article by the New York Times’ Eric Taub. Instead, Philips will license its name to Funai who will assume all ...

Pioneer to Exit Plasma Panel Production

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

By Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Research As we reported in an article in DisplaySearch’s Weekly TV Flash Report a few weeks back, Pioneer had announced their exit from the 42" plasma panel production business in Japan. It seems, however, that Pioneer now plans to completely abandon ALL plasma ...

Sony Pulls the Plug on Rear Projection

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

By Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Market Research Sony began spreading the word to its retail customers this week that end is at hand for its role in the rear projection TV business. Sony has long been a top RPTV brand and consistently ranks in the top 2 brands ...