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Panasonic said Tuesday it will sell one of its main domestic TV panel factories to a new joint venture focused on producing smaller screens, as Japan"s big-name manufacturers continue to seek relief from deep losses in their display businesses.

The move comes as part of a broader restructuring plan for Panasonic"s overall television business, which like its peers" is deeply in the red. The company said last month it would scale back its manufacturing in an attempt to become profitable by next fiscal year. After the sale, which is to be finalized in April of 2012, it will have one domestic plant remaining.

Panasonic said it will sell its LCD TV factory located in Chiba, east of Tokyo to Japan Display for an undisclosed sum. INCJ said the new venture will build a new production line for small displays at the factory, it said Tuesday.

Japan"s prominent electronics companies are struggling to revive their TV and panel businesses, under pressure from recent record highs in the yen and foreign competition from rivals like Samsung and Vizio. Sony said earlier this month it now expects over a billion-dollar loss for the current fiscal year, after early predicting a profit, due in large part to its television woes.

With panels largely commoditized, domestic manufacturers have attempted to increase profits through technologies that offer glasses-free 3D and super high resolution, but have had little success so far.

Sharp is revamping some of its large-screen TV lines to make smaller panels for phones and tablets, a transformation similar to that planned at the Panasonic plant, although Sharp is making its changes internally.

The Samsung S95B and its next-gen QD-OLED panel also got astoundingly cheap, and remain a great option, but only in limited sizes. On the more affordable end, the LG A2 has also hit rock-bottom prices during sales, so keep you eyes open for more of that – it"s unbelievable value for anyone not into gaming.

The best OLED TVs on the market today deliver beautiful image quality because of the self-lighting pixels that define this kind of technology. What these pixels allow for is rich, precise contrast for HDR in a way that even the best LCD TVs can’t match. That means they deliver an incredible cinematic picture that brings you more detail in darker areas of the screen than you’ll ever get from an LCD TV.

LG"s A2 series TVs are the firm"s cheapest OLED offerings, and while they"re not quite as feature-rich as their more expensive stablemates they still deliver a lot of TV for the money. LG"s OLED panels are wonderful things with superb color and contrast, and while the panel here isn"t as bright as the ones in more expensive LG TVs it"s still very good and very clear. It also has LG"s webOS smart TV operating system, which we think is the best in the business.

A new wide color gamut panel for the A80K combines with Sony’s XR OLED Contrast Pro, XR Triluminos Pro, and Cognitive Processor XR features to deliver deep blacks and detailed shadows in images, along with rich, fully saturated colors. Overall picture brightness is satisfactory, if a bit below what you’ll get from the very best OLED TVs, such as the LG G2 and also the LG C2 series. Still, Sony’s mid-tier OLED manages to look great even in well-lit rooms, and it stuns in ones that are dimmed for best-quality movie viewing.

It"s a tighter race than ever, then, though it"s worth assessing secondary characteristics for OLED and QLED screens. An OLED with a cheap processor may cause more artefacts and video noise (as we saw in the LG BX), while a QLED with edge-lighting (the Q60T) won"t get the true benefit of its enhanced color and contrast. Format or feature support can be crucial if you"re hooking up your TV to a PC, a games console, or a 4K Blu-ray player too.What is the lifespan of an OLED TV?According to LG Display, the makers of the OLED panels that go into every OLED TV on the list - around 100,000 hours. For most folks that"s about 10 years of TV watching and far exceeds the 40,000 to 60,000-hour lifespans of most LED-LCD TVs. That said, OLED TVs can experience something called burn-in when a static image is left on the screen for prolonged periods of time - so be sure to change the channel every few days.Best OLED TV competitors: what else is out there?OLED is, for many, the premium TV tech of the moment. Though once weighed down by inaccessible price points, a flurry of cheaper mid-range OLEDs and smaller panel sizes has helped bring OLED closer to the mass market. TCL"s own plans to manufacture its own inkjet OLED TV panels at a significant price reduction over traditional OLED production methods could spell trouble for the likes of LG and Panasonic too.

Samsung’s current TV lineup includes QD-OLED hybrids (they combine OLED panels with quantum dot tech, utilising the self-emissive properties of the former and color enhancements of the latter) in 55- and 65-inch screen sizes, and Sony is offering similar-sized sets that use the same tech. In our hands-on test of Sony’s A95K QD-OLED, we found that its high brightness and impressive color depth gave it an edge over standard OLED models, though the picture quality boost comes at extra cost. Is QD-OLED tech worth the higher price? We’ll weigh in on that after we get a TV in-hand for a full-scale review.

For those with cash to splash, you"ll be choosing between a high-end OLED TV and Micro LED – a self-emissive panel technology that Samsung has leant into in recent times, but which has proved difficult to offer either affordably or at mainstream sizing (76-inch is the smallest we"ve seen so far, as of 2021).

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp on Tuesday said it will close its unprofitable television screen manufacturing business, leaving Sharp Corp as Japan’s sole TV panel maker.

The decision to close the business comes after Panasonic scrapped a company-wide revenue target of 10 trillion yen ($90.1 billion) for the year through March 2019 to focus on profitability.

Its Himeji plant will continue to produce screens for vehicle dashboards and medical equipment, but output will drop to a quarter of the current 810,000 units a month in terms of 32-inch panels, Panasonic said.

The Nikkei business daily reported on the closure earlier in the day, at the end of which Panasonic shares closed 3.6 percent higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. By comparison, the benchmark Nikkei index ended up 1.0 percent.

* Hundreds Of Workers Will Be Reassigned To Car Battery Production Facilities, Elsewhere, A Plan Panasonic Will Soon Start Discussing With Labor- Nikkei

* Panasonic Is Looking To Shrink Total Output Volume By Roughly 75% At The Himeji Plant - Nikkei Source (s.nikkei.com/1U84uNR) Further company coverage:

We just replaced an 11 year old 37 inch Pana Viera LCD tv with 50 inch Hisense that is 4k, has a built-in 4k tuner, and Toshiba innards. It was 55,000 yen, less than half the Pana tv was.

Innovation Network Corp. of Japan is making final arrangements to buy a liquid crystal display panel plant from Panasonic Corp. to boost the production capacity of a joint LCD venture it is forming with three manufacturers, sources said Friday.

Panasonic plans to sell its LCD panel plant in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, part of the electronics maker’s efforts to sharply scale down its loss-making television business.

I asked Baker for some stats on how TVs have changed along two basic metrics: price and screen size. His earliest numbers were from 2004. That"s two years after I started at CNET and a time when most TVs were still CRTs and rear-projection models -- just 7% of TVs sold that year were flat-panel. Today every TV sold is a flat-panel TV.TV size and price averages over 15 years

And that RPTV was a good deal, at least compared to flat-panel TVs at the time. In 2005 CNET reviewed one of the first LCD-based TVs, theSelect TVs during the fat-to-flat transition

The transition from rear-projection to flat-panel was basically complete just three years later with CNET"s last RPTV review, the 65-inch Mitsubishi WD-65737. In 2009 it sold for $1,600 and although it had an "excellent screen-size-to-price ratio"

Those two brands exemplify how betting on the wrong TV technology horse can go awry. Panasonic invested heavily in plasma but after that technology failed it ended up leaving the US entirely in 2016 -- and hasn"t sold a new TV here since. Samsung invested primarily in LCD and, more recently, in its SUHD and QLED-branded LCD variants, and has enjoyed the No. 1 worldwide market share in TVs for more than a decade.2019 top 5 market share (units sold)

"The shift in the last 15 years is clearly the brand change away from the Japanese brands, who were ascendant at that time and the rise of the Korean brands and then more recently the Chinese brands," said Baker. Japan-based manufacturers Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Panasonic were all household TV names in the last 15 years. All have since bowed out of the market to make room for Korean and Chinese brands like Samsung, LG and TCL.

I agree with Baker: People will always want bigger, cheaper TVs. The next frontier is almost incomprehensibly huge -- 85 inches -- but today you can buy one for $1,900. It won"t be long before it costs $999 or even less. That might be close to the upper limit for traditional flat-panel LCD and OLED tech when you consider shipping and factors like, you know, fitting the thing through a doorway, but modular MicroLED and good old-fashioned projectors.

Once among the most popular TV makers in the World, Panasonic pulled out of the U.S. TV market in 2016. The brand"s TVs are no longer featured on their U.S. website, and they no longer appear at Best Buy, which was once the manufacturer"s primary sales outlet.

Despite Panasonic"s exit from the market, you may still find some used 2015 and 2016 TVs for purchase through Amazon, as well as some brick-and-mortar retailers.

Panasonic"s departure from the U.S. TV market means that Sony is the only major Japan-based TV maker selling TVs in the U.S. The current major players, such as LG and Samsung are based in South Korea. Vizio is a U.S. based brand that manufactures overseas, and the rest (TCL, Hisense, Haier) are based in China.

Things started going downhill for the TV division when Plasma TV sales began to plummet alongside improvements in LCD TV technology. Lower power consumption, LED Backlighting, fast screen refresh rates, and motion processing, as well as the introduction of 4K Ultra HD, resulted in a sales explosion for LCD TVs. Since Plasma was the claim to fame and the main focus of its TV marketing strategy, these developments did not bode well for the company"s sales outlook. Consequently, Panasonic ended Plasma TV production in 2014.

Although LG and Samsung also used to feature Plasma TVs in their product lines (both brands also ended production in late 2014), they did not emphasize Plasma over LCD, so its demise did not have as big of a financial impact.

In addition, with increased competition from LG, Samsung, and the aggressive entry of China-based TV makers, Panasonic found itself in a corner as consumers failed to warm to the company"s own LCD TV product lines, even though the sets were definitely deserving of consideration.

Despite obstacles, the company continued to make efforts to stay in the market. In 2015 and early 2016, it displayed and delivered budget-priced 4K Ultra HD LCD TVs and hinted at its own OLED TV product line. If this plan had continued, the move would have made it one of the only TV makers, along with LG and Sony, to market OLED TVs in the U.S. Unfortunately, it reversed course on both OLED and LED/LCD. As a result, Panasonic TVs (including OLED) are only available in select markets outside of the U.S.

While Panasonic no longer offers TVs for U.S. customers, it still has a solid presence in several key product categories. Those markets include Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc players, headphones, and compact audio systems. The company has also resurrected its high-end Technics audio brand.

Despite all of Panasonic"s misfortunes, there may be a silver lining for brand fans and U.S. consumers. Whether it re-enters the U.S. TV market depends a lot on whether its 4K Ultra HD and OLED TVs sell well in Canada.

However, if past and current trends are any indications, having left, it may be very difficult for Panasonic to regain a foothold in the U.S. market, as competition from U.S. based Vizio, Korea, and China-based TV makers is only likely to intensify.

If you are a real Panasonic fan, and you live in a northern U.S. border State, you may be able to go to Canada and purchase one. However, once you cross the border with your TV, Canadian warranties are no longer valid.