{"id":29462,"date":"2013-01-09T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=29462"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:30:16","slug":"panasonic-unveils-largest-oled-tv-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/29462\/panasonic-unveils-largest-oled-tv-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic unveils largest OLED TV in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panasonic Corp<\/a>, in a display of technological one-upmanship with its South Korean rivals, unveiled a prototype of the world’s largest OLED screen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The half-inch thick, 56-inch television, based on organic light-emitting diode technology, is a mere inch bigger than ones offered up by Samsung Electronics<\/a> and LG Electronics<\/a> a year ago in Las Vegas. The technology in theory allows for thinner screens that consume less power.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Sony Corp<\/a>, which is cooperating with Panasonic in OLED technology, on Monday unwrapped its own 56-inch ultra high-definition model.<\/p>\n

Sony on Monday also said it will widen its range of ultra high-definition LCD sets to three this year, as it stakes out its territory in next-generation TVs.<\/p>\n

LG, which has started to take orders for its thin OLED screens, plans sales in the United States of a $12,000, 55-inch model beginning in March, making it the first company to commercialize the new technology.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Kazuhiro Tsuga<\/a>, the president of Panasonic, told industry executives and reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show<\/a> in Las Vegas that “Many people think of Panasonic as a television manufacturing company. In fact, for nearly 100 years we have been making a vast range of products.”<\/p>\n

Tsuga said that Panasonic will focus on selling products like batteries for cars, in-flight entertainment systems, hydrogen cells, solar panels and LED lighting to businesses, while boosting its appliance unit and reducing its exposure to the hyper-competitive consumer electronics arena.<\/p>\n

“Panasonic’s future is being built on far more than a single product category,” Tsuga said.<\/p>\n

Panasonic and Japan’s two other big TV makers, Sony and Sharp Corp, have been hammered in conventional LCD screens by competition from Korean rivals led by Samsung.<\/p>\n

Japan’s share of the world’s flat panel TV market this year likely contracted to 31 percent from 41 percent in 2010, according to the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association.<\/p>\n

Tsuga has also vowed to deliver the details of a revival plan by the end of March. So far, he has said that businesses that fail to achieve a 5 percent operating margin within two years will be shuttered or sold.<\/p>\n

Sales of its weakest units may start next business year.<\/p>\n

Panasonic is forecasting a net loss of $8.9 billion in the year to March 31.<\/p>\n

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