14 DAY TRIAL // Since the third quarter of the year is long over and Q4 doesn't have long to live either, analysts are, naturally, trying to see how the different market segments will turn out, and it seems that one of the recent reports deals with the US LCD TV segment.
It seems that the market for liquid crystal displays, at least as far as the United States are concerned, will see some growth by the end of the ongoing three-month period.
While 2009 managed to see most of the industry recovering, this year's fourth quarter will supposedly turn out to have been more lucrative.
As Digitmes has it, according to channel retailers, the global netbook market is diminishing because of the iPad and all other tablets.
With shifts in shipments, the market share of LCDs may end up distributed unevenly, or at least different from how it was originally surmised.
There is also the issue of decreasing financial resources among consumers, which might also lead to slowdowns in terms of sales.
Not only that, but the overall economy of 2010 seems to be recovering more slowly than most would like, and price drops haven't been as big as some may have expected. Thus, LCD inventories have actually been on the rise.
Now that Black Friday is on, all suppliers are hoping for their products to disappear from their warehouses one after another, and the outlook for LCD TVs at least seems optimistic.
Some vendors even started to offer price cuts earlier than usual, leading to the 40-inch Samsung Full HD LCD TV to sell for $498 instead of $800.
Likewise, Panasonic's 37-inch flat-panel TV fell from $649 to $469 for Black Friday.
All in all, the general expectation is that the LCD segment in the US will show an on-year increase of 5% and to account for 18%-19% of the global LCD TV market.