Pioneer to Quit All Plasma Business

[Ext User(Simon Gronow)]

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March 07, 2008 |
Last week, the buzz was that Pioneer would stop making 42-inch plasma
displays. Well, it appears that they are spreading that initiative out a
bit.

Pioneer announced today that they would stop all plasma panel production, in
order to make up for company losses. Pioneer has traditionally set its
prices higher, which helped the company fall behind others, such as
Panasonic and LG.

"We have judged that maintaining the cost competitiveness of plasma display
panels, or PDPs, at projected sales volumes will be difficult going
forward," Pioneer said in a statement.

According to CNNMoney.com, Pioneer will still crank out plenty of TVs,
except the panels will actually be manufactured by Panasonic. There's no
word on how this will effect Pioneer's super-thin KURO displays, which were
announced in January.

At the end of the fiscal year (March 31), Pioneer is expected to post a $146
million loss.

[Ext User(jh)]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:01:27 +1100, "Simon Gronow" <srg@babcom.net.au>
wrote:

>Full Item @
>http://www.electronichouse.com/article/update_pioneer_to_quit_all_plasma_business/C91
>
>
>March 07, 2008 |
>Last week, the buzz was that Pioneer would stop making 42-inch plasma
>displays. Well, it appears that they are spreading that initiative out a
>bit.
>
>Pioneer announced today that they would stop all plasma panel production, in
>order to make up for company losses. Pioneer has traditionally set its
>prices higher, which helped the company fall behind others, such as
>Panasonic and LG.
>
>"We have judged that maintaining the cost competitiveness of plasma display
>panels, or PDPs, at projected sales volumes will be difficult going
> forward," Pioneer said in a statement.
>
>According to CNNMoney.com, Pioneer will still crank out plenty of TVs,
>except the panels will actually be manufactured by Panasonic. There's no
>word on how this will effect Pioneer's super-thin KURO displays, which were
>announced in January.

No match for the latest panasonic with twin hd tuner pvr blue ray
recorder.

>
>At the end of the fiscal year (March 31), Pioneer is expected to post a $146
>million loss.

Panasonic has a new dvd/blue ray recorder out which is built into the
latest plasma screen.

Panasonic 42PHDBD183 42" plasma with built in dvd/bdr recorder.
The screen has wait for it, 5 x hdmi, 4x usb2 with a 1000gig hard
drive. Priced at $1999 retail.

What I like about this is that it can record back to dvd, bdr and
usb2.

With a dual hd tuner.

[Ext User(starbuck)]

is it available in Australia now?


> Panasonic has a new dvd/blue ray recorder out which is built into the
> latest plasma screen.
>
> Panasonic 42PHDBD183 42" plasma with built in dvd/bdr recorder.
> The screen has wait for it, 5 x hdmi, 4x usb2 with a 1000gig hard
> drive. Priced at $1999 retail.
>
> What I like about this is that it can record back to dvd, bdr and
> usb2.
>
> With a dual hd tuner.
>
>