LCD vs plasma market stats

[Clare Newsome]

The recent Pioneer announcement (see here) seems to have got some people thinking plasma is in a tailspin, despite other news such as Panasonic (with a far larger market share than Pioneer) opening a new plasma factory with a capacity of one million sets per month.

I thought it'd help if I shared some UK market figures from independent industry analyst, GfK, to show where we are right now:

Total number of TVs sold in the UK in 2007 - 8.6 million.

Amount spent on LCD TVs in 2007 in UK - £3.146 billion (to put that in context, the entire UK consumer electronics market was worth £8.9 billion for the year)

Amount spent on plasma TVs in 2007 in UK - £645 million (again, to put that in context, entire hi-fi separates market in same period was worth £200m).

In terms of units, LCD is outselling plasma three-to-one, but that fits in with the size issue (ie that only 25 percent of TVs sold are 32in+).
Plasma is still dominant at larger screen sizes - during December, for example, plasma outsold LCD by two to one at the larger screen sizes.
And one final interesting stat - of the TVs sold in 2007, 11 percent of the plasmas were bought online, and 14 percent of the LCDs: the rest were bought through standard shops.

Hope this is helpful!

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting reading Clare, thx for the share.

 

[nads]

TBH the announcement from Pioneer was no surprise. Well i but HD DVD and..... I buy a 50" Pioneer Plasma and.... Still happy though.

 

[Clare Newsome]

[quote user="nads"]TBH the announcement from Pioneer was no surprise. Well i but HD DVD and..... I buy a 50" Pioneer Plasma and....
Still happy though.[/quote]

And so you should be - you've got one of the best TVs around!

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Clare Newsome"]
Amount spent on plasma TVs in 2007 in UK - £645,000 million Hope this is helpful!
[/quote]

Good lord! That's nearly 10 grand for every person in the UK on plasmas alone (in one year!!)

jules.

 

[Clare Newsome]

That's the average premiership footballer's house covered, then.

Don't forget this covers commercial sales, too - hotels, transport (airports; railway stations etc), shopping centres...

 

[Zubkabera]

Plasma's will end-up like HD DVD LCD are sweeping them across the globe and with new technology bigger sizes and lower prices I don't see any future for Plasma I bet in next two years time they will be dead rubber.

I know Panasonic is planing to start new factories in 2009 but like Tosh they will end-up on losing side, you can check these words in two years time if WHSFV still exists

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Okay, let me get this straight. it's probably easier if we don't mix billions and millions, and assume we mean American billion (i.e. 1000 million).

So:

Amount spent on LCD = £3.146 billion

Amount spent on plasma = £645 billion

So the plamsa market is over 200 times larger than the LCD market! That's unbelievable!

No, really, that's unbelievable...

Let's say the average plasma commercial screen cost £2,000 (probably a lot less, as it's bought in bulk), then we're talking over 322 million plasmas installed in the UK in the last year - that's more than 5 per person!

Are we paving roads with plasmas now?

 

[D.J.KRIME]

[quote user="Zubkabera"]
Plasma's will end-up like HD DVD LCD are sweeping them across the globe and with new technology bigger sizes and lower prices I don't see any future for Plasma I bet in next two years time they will be dead rubber.

I know Panasonic is planing to start new factories in 2009 but like Tosh they will end-up on losing side, you can check these words in two years time if WHSFV still exists

[/quote] Think you are a little bit East Ham there mate, you know One stop short of Barking!

Plasma like WHSV is here to stay

 

[Anonymous]

Clare,
Are you sure you didn't mean 645 million quid, not 645 billion....?jules.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I think it's actually £645m on plasmas in the UK, out of a market total of just over £3bn on TVs.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

[quote user="jules153"]Clare,

Are you sure you didn't mean 645 million quid, not 645 billion....?
jules.[/quote]

I'm thinking there must be a mistake somewhere - or Heathrow Terminal 5 is CRAMMED with plasmas!

 

[Clare Newsome]

Yes, sorry - amended above.... That's why I do words, not numbers

 

[D.J.KRIME]

Well you can put me down for £1200 of that.

 

[Zubkabera]

I apologize to you DJ Krime if in anyway I hurt your feelings I know there are die-hard patriot of this magazine. the reason I say if WHFSV still exist is that no one knows the future and can't predict anything that was my only reason. I hope and pray WHFSV stays till your grand childrens are watching 3d holographic TVs.

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="Clare Newsome"]Yes, sorry - amended above.... That's why I do words, not numbers

[/quote]

 

[Clare Newsome]

No, still too advanced for me

 

[Anonymous]

Oh dear, sorry I asked the question Clare, it seems to have caused a bit of a stink. However ,I think the figures are interesting and I take your point that LCD has a dominant position for all small TV'S. I must admit I think Plasma is doing better than I thought.

I certainly hope LCD does not win out, not unless they improve considerably. I see the Pioneer is down to below £1200 now. It is getting very tempting!!