Omdia: Gaming Devices Should Boost 2021 TV Shipments
The unlikely growth seen in TV sales during this year of the pandemic should continue in 2021 largely due to the 2020 holiday launches of Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X next-gen video game consoles, market research Omdia recently announced. Omdia didn’t supply…
Omdia: 4K UHD TV Shipments Defied Q3-2020 Forecasts
Shipments of television sets continued to defy expectations for the COVID-19 pandemic in the third quarter of 2020, with overall global unit volume up 15% from the same period a year ago to 62.9 million, according to recently released Global TV market data. A recently…
Analysts Continue To Revise Down Outlook For 2020 Television Market
The alarming escalation in the infection rate of the COVID-19 virus pandemic caused television market research firm Omdia (a.k.a. IHS Markit) to recently revise downward its forecasts for global television unit shipments during full-year 2020, but things could still get worse before they get better….
COVID-19 Poses Conundrum For Shut-Ins In Need Of A New TV
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reverberate across the consumer electronics industry and into consumer homes as leading market research trackers continue to reduce their TV set sales predictions for 2020. Like the stock market, the uncertain nature of the television industry can…
2020 TV Rollouts Underway Despite COVID-19 Interruptions
You may be hiding at home, but television vendors and analysts carefully monitoring the COVID-19 Coronavirus situation around the world said that so far plans for the transition to 2020 model lines remain more or less on target. Since the virus breakout, some in the…
OMDIA: NA TV Shipments Dropped 3% In 2019
Shipments to North American of flat-panel TV sets declined 3% in 2019 to 42.5 million units, according to year-end numbers compiled by Omdia (the new name of display tech research firm IHS Markit). The firm further forecasts a 0.9% decline for the category (combined LCD…
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