Comments on: No Steam Ahead For Flat Panel Market? https://www.waivingentropy.com/2012/01/18/no-steam-ahead-for-flat-panel-market/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 03:55:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 By: Daniel Bastian https://www.waivingentropy.com/2012/01/18/no-steam-ahead-for-flat-panel-market/#comment-6559 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:55 +0000 http://www.techthoughts.net/?p=1414#comment-6559 Thanks for the comment Philip, and great points. I agree that the sagging sales have more to do with market saturation in developed nations than alternative ways of consuming media.

The mfrs. clearly hoped that app and 3D support would boost sales back to the levels enjoyed in the mid-2000s. These features simply are not compelling enough to sway consumers to upgrade, even though prices have fallen considerably (average for a 47″ flat panel today is under $1,000). But I think mobile usage plays a role as well. Consumers are less likely to upgrade to a new set or buy an additional one when their primary viewing device is now a tablet, smartphone or PC.

]]> By: Philip Jan https://www.waivingentropy.com/2012/01/18/no-steam-ahead-for-flat-panel-market/#comment-6549 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000 http://www.techthoughts.net/?p=1414#comment-6549 I agree that the flat panel market is and will in the short-term lose steam but I do not think that this is due to the proliferation of smartphones or tablets as much as it is the combination of the observation that people tend replace their TVs significantly less often than a phone or a tablet/notebook/computer and the fact that so many consumers have jumped on board the flat panel train in the last few years. The following point is obviously just anecdotal evidence but everyone that I know who is obsessed with the latest phones and tablets and watch a ton of stuff on these devices either has a large flat-screen TV or wants to buy one.

I just feel that it is unreasonable to expect this market to continue seeing the type of growth it did in the last few years because of the high growth it has already seen and the failure of current technological improvements to TVs such as smart TV functions and glasses 3D to grab people in the way that the difference between 480p and 720p/1080p did. I’m not saying that smartphones and tablets didn’t play some role in providing alternatives that were cheaper for watching video content and impact this market but I do feel that the flat panel market would have hit this wall around this time anyway.

]]>