toshiba lcd panel manufacturer supplier

Hisense TVs are manufactured by the Hisense Group, which also makes televisions for Sharp and Toshiba. Founded in 1969, they are currently the biggest manufacturer of televisions in China. They have over 53 overseas companies, 14 high-end production facilities and 12 research and development centers across Europe, Central America, and South Africa.

Hisense is one of only a few manufacturers that manufacture their own panels to make LCDs displays. It still buys OLED panels from LG, the only company that produces this technology as of 2021. This gives them an advantage over some competitors like Sony, who rely heavily on Samsung and LG for display components.

In 2015, the company acquired Sharpand one of their Mexican TV production lines. Later, in 2017, they bought a 95% stake in Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation, the brand that manufactures Toshiba.

Towards the end of Hisense’s agreement with Sharp, they purchased Toshiba Visual Solutions and gained the rights to make Toshiba TV’s in North America.

Like Sharp, Toshiba televisions come with great features at a reasonable price-point, making them a great option for many homes. Thanks to their Hisense LCD panels, Toshiba TVs deliver crisp, natural, and detailed pictures, even during sports broadcasts or action movies.

As one of the top-five television manufacturers in the world, Hisense manufactures many of their own components. This includes the LCD panels found on many of their televisions. Hisense also manufactures TV’s for Toshiba sold in North America.

TOKYO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Toshiba Corpsaid on Friday it is scrapping plans to mass-produce organic electroluminescence (OLED) panels and will focus more on mid-to-small sized LCD panels amid strong demand.

OLED panels were touted as the next-generation technology in flat panels but saw a slow take-off due to competition with other technologies and the improved quality of LCD panels. The global OLED display market is currently dominated by Samsung Mobile Display.

“The plan (for mass-production) is currently frozen. We’ll review the production plan again from scratch,” Toshiba Mobile Display spokesman Masahiro Kume said.

Toshiba Mobile Display invested some 16 billion yen ($197 million) in 2008, when it was a joint venture between Toshiba and Panasonic Corp, on installing an OLED production line in Japan, but the start of mass-production was delayed.

The company will transfer the few dozen engineers involved in research and development to the LCD panel division, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier.

Shares in Toshiba gained 2.2 percent to 413 yen, against a 1.1 percent rise in the Nikkei average. (Reporting by Mariko Katsumura and Sachi Izumi in TOKYO and Divya Sharma in BANGALORE; Editing by Joseph Radford)

Japanese media reported late last year that Apple planned to invest about Y100 billion each on new LCD production lines at Toshiba and Sharp to secure supplies of the key component for its popular smartphone.

And then there were three: Toshiba’s announcement that it’s to stop making TVs and instead licence out its brand means only Panasonic, Sharp and Sony are left carrying the Japanese flag in a market sector the country once dominated – but for how long?

If you think Toshiba’s decision to stop making TVs for export markets, and instead licence its brand to third-party manufacturers, is good news for the remaining trio of major Japanese TV manufacturers – Panasonic, Sharp and Sony –, think again: true, they’ve just lost a competitor, but Toshiba’s departure should be more a cause for concern among the last three standing, rather than a reason to break out the sparkling saké (yes, it exists).

Talking of the profitability of big, high-quality, premium-priced plasma displays to consumers, Panasonic rounded off several years of touting the superiority of plasma over the market-invading LED-lit LCD TVs – they even took me to Japan a few years back for what was a pretty unashamed brainwashing event on the subject – by announcing in October 2013 that yes, it was giving up on plasma sets, simply because it wasn’t making any money on them.

Trouble is, it’s not a plasma thing: for all the efforts of manufacturers to sell us up to premium-priced TVs (on which of course they make more money) with 3D, ‘smart’ features and now 4K, as soon as a new TV technology is launched, it quickly becomes assimilated as just another feature, and prices go into freefall.

And when it comes to the main technology in TVs, LCD panels: that ship has long sailed from Japan: only Sharp has any significant stake in that game these days, with a market share of just 5.5% in the third quarter of last year. That figure is dwarfed by the two South Korean giants, LG Display on 26.1% and Samsung with 21.2%, but also by Taiwan’s Innolux (18.5%) and AU Optronics (15.6%).

Interestingly, only in Japan will you be able to buy a Japanese-made Toshiba TV, as the company seemingly intends to continue making sets for domestic consumption. But then in Japan ‘Made in Japan’ still has major clout, as you also see on the country’s roads: not a lot of Kias and Hyundais being driven, which is also why the major players in the global TV market, Samsung and LG, have traditionally struggled to make inroads into the Japanese consumer electronics market.

Update: Reports suggest Panasonic is pulling out of its joint venture to make TVs in China, with the operation in Shandong Province, which made around 200,000 LCD sets a month, apparently having shut down on Friday, January 30th 2015, with the loss of some 300 jobs. It is other Chinese TV plant (in Shanghai), in 2013, as part of its retreat from the plasma TV business.

Panasonic will now buy in TVs from other manufacturers to sell under its brand, the reports say, adding that it’s also considering selling its own TV-making plant in Mexico, which makes sets for the North American market. If the Mexico factory follows the Chinese one, that will lead to a 10% reduction in Panasonic’s total TV-manufacturing capacity, and concentrate attention on the company’s other plants, currently making higher-ticket – and thus more profitable – models.

Amidst all that background, it can surely only be a matter of time before one or other of the two big rivals of Japanese consumer electronics – one based in the greater Tokyo area, the other in the country’s ‘second city’, Osaka – bites the bullet and either pulls out of TVs completely, or at best follows the Pioneer/Hitachi/Toshiba route of licencing its brand for use on TVs made elsewhere.

Toshiba and Apple are reportedly working together on a brand new manufacturing plant in Japan"s Ishikawa Prefecture, specifically to build "low-temperature polysilicon LCD panels," to be used in Apple"s iPhones. Toshiba will spend about $1.9 billion on the project, which is scheduled to start building in a month or so, and be done in time to start production by the end of next year. Toshiba already makes some 8.55 million units in its current manufacturing plant, but that production is supposed to double with this new facility.

We"ve posted before about the incredible scale of Apple"s production process, and even with all of these plants churning out parts and units, Apple is only barely able to keep up with demand. In some places it"s still not even able to keep up. The other benefit is that the more of its production process Apple moves under its own purview, the more of an advantage it can have against competitors, some of which use the same manufacturers and distributors that Apple uses right now. The more plants Apple invests in, the more unique production locations it will be able to take advantage of later on.

The Toshiba 2010 G300 LCD television series, available in three sizes, is backlit with a 1080-pixel screen and refreshes at the rate of 120 Hertz. In 2012, Toshiba launched its LCD/LED 3D TV Series, which are edge lit with passive 3D graphics at the rate of its Cinespeed processor. Compare Toshiba TV boards, parts, and components on eBay where you can shop with confidence and ease.

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Toshiba TV boards are semiconductor circuit boards like the motherboard in a personal computer. The Toshiba TV board, also referred to as the mainboard, LCD board, or power supply board, connects the power cord to the television circuitry. New, used, and refurbished Toshiba television boards are available by television size, model number, or part number on eBay.

Toshiba television new, used, and refurbished electronic parts include LCD panels and their backlights, power regulators, sensor circuitry, and operating button circuitry. Toshiba television parts include random access memory, audio and voice processors, HDMI and analog processors, and associated switching circuitry. Active Toshiba parts include transistors, triode vacuum tubes, and tunnel diodes. Active parts inject electricity into a circuit, and they perform as oscillators to activate the liquid crystals within your LCD panel and produce the picture on your television screen. Sound is produced by an amplifier chip to your speaker.

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