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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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