Stopt Pioneer met het maken van HD Ready en 42 inch plasma schermen?

Pioneer stopt met het maken van de HD Ready schermen?

Op het Amerikaanse Sound and Vision Magazine staat een bericht dat Pioneer vanaf de volgende generatie schermen alleen nog maar 1080p Full HD schermen gaat fabriceren. Verder zou Pioneer ook stoppen met het maken van een 42" plasma scherm. Dat 'kleinere' formaat zou overgelaten worden aan de LCD fabrikanten. Daarbij wordt de verbinding gelegd met Sharp, die een groot aandeel in Pioneer heeft genomen.

Lees hieronder het volledige Amerikaanse bericht:

Plasma leader switching teams?
Breaking news from the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.
By John Sciacca • February 2008

Pioneer is pretty much universally considered the industry leader in Plasma TV performance. Their latest series of Kuro TVs have been hailed as "best TV I've ever seen" and even "best TV in the world." And their next-gen concept TVs display contrast that is literally unmeasurable and produced pictures that had the entire CES crowd talking.

So, this e-mail announcement from one of their dealer district sales managers came as quite a shocker:

Secondly, Pioneer has decided that the current 8G XGA 720P line up will be the last year for it. In current generations to come, Pioneer will no longer make or sell XGA product, only 1080P. Also, Pioneer will be exiting the 42 inch category in plasma for future generations. You may be saying that we are going to replace that with LCD, and you are probably correct, but Pioneer will not launch any LCD product this calendar year.

This is clearly the result of another little talked about bit of CES news. LCD leader, Sharp, has acquired a sizable stake of Pioneer.

Strange days indeed. . .

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