Growing Popularity of LCD TVs

LCD TVs are fast becoming popular in many countries. LCD TVs had captured a 47% share of the global market, with more than 60.8 million units sold in the last quarter of 2008. Earlier in year 2007 LCD TVs dominated bringing in $68 billion in sales.

LCD TVs have penetrated markets in North America, Japan and Western Europe, of which, Western Europe has the highest share. The main reason for high sales of LCD is that it has become a natural replacement for CRTs. LCD 40” TVs have also surpassed RPTV and PDP devices sales. The 32” LCD TV is the most popular model among all the competitors.

In spite of LCD TVs dominating in many countries there are several other technologies that are also equally popular. Plasma TV was the leading provider in this market before the advent of LCD TVs.

Plasma TVs have a main drawback of getting heated up very fast and having thick screen sizes. They contain nitrogen trifluoride, which contains GhG gas, which is used during the production phase of Plasma TVs. Also, they consume high energy which is taken from fossil fuel power plants.

Plasma TVs also have image retention issues – where a group of pixels running at high brightness for a long period of time results in a ghost like image on the screen. These problems have resulted in Plasma TVs slowly losing market shares, giving way to new age LCD TVs.

Philips 42PFL7422D and LG 32LG70 are energy saving models that now fast becoming popular in many regions. Sony BRAVIA and Sceptra Naga are also good brand models that are currently available in the market.