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North American LCD TV sales up 50 percent for Q2

16 August 2008 18:15 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 1 comment

North American LCD TV sales up 50 percent for Q2 According to the latest DisplaySearch report, overall TV shipments for North America are up 28 percent year-on-year for the Q2, to 9.33 million units.

For the quarter, sales were up 26 percent, with LCDs seeing the highest growth at 52 percent. LCDs accounted for 7.5 million of the 9.3 million TV sales for the quarter and is the clear market share leader over PDP and CRT.

Samsung remained the market leader for LCD, with Sony close behind. LG Electronics, Sharp and Vizio rounded out the top 5, just as they had last quarter.

Panasonic was the leader in PDP (plasma) sales with Vizio close behind after seeing double digit growth in sales year on year. Samsung, LG and Sanyo rounded out the rest of the top 5.

Read the whole report here: DisplaySearch Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report

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    theridges (AfterDawn Addict) 17 August 2008 5:46 Send private message to this user   
    Yep,
    i Sell TV's and Everybody loves there LCD's ;)
    in my store its still fairly slow though hopefully business picks up soon.
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