{"id":16674,"date":"2012-06-28T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T09:14:09","slug":"oled-still-far-off-from-lcd-price-point-panasonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/16674\/oled-still-far-off-from-lcd-price-point-panasonic\/","title":{"rendered":"OLED still far off from LCD price-point: Panasonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s <a title=\"Panasonic Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1657-Panasonic-Corporation\">Panasonic Corp<\/a> does not expect prices of its next generation OLED (organic light emitting diode) televisions to fall to levels seen for LCD televisions for a considerable time, its new president told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic and Japanese rival TV maker <a title=\"Sony Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1633-Sony\">Sony Corp<\/a> said this week they will cooperate to make the OLED sets as they compete against Korea&#8217;s <a title=\"Samsung Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> and <a title=\"LG Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2448-LG-Corporation\">LG Electronics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuhiro Tsuga, who was appointed new president of Panasonic on Wednesday, has said one of his main missions will be to speed up decision-making, and he pledged to get Panasonic&#8217;s ailing TV business back on a firm footing within two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/16346\/sony-panasonic-team-up-for-oled-tv\/\"><strong>Sony, Panasonic team up for OLED TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/14573\/panasonic-to-provide-olympus-with-up-to-r5-3bn\/\"><strong>Panasonic to provide Olympus with up to R5.3bn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/14379\/sony-shares-lowest-since-1980\/\"><strong>Sony shares lowest since 1980<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/13848\/panasonic-to-halve-hq-workforce\/\"><strong>Panasonic to halve HQ workforce<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Panasonic Corp does not expect prices of its next generation OLED (organic light emitting diode) televisions to fall to levels seen for LCD televisions for a considerable time, its new president told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,655,479,3333],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-oled","tag-panasonic","tag-tvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16691,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}