On top of the announcement that Philips are scrapping scanning backlight technology for LCD TVs, they've also recently said that they'll be phasing out the production of plasma high definition TVs.
CEO of Philips Consumer Electronics, Rudy Provoost, said at a recent press event in Hong Kong that, from later this year, new PDP TVs would only be sold in North America and Australia. The 63-inch 63PFP7422D PDP TV shown off at CES 2007 will be released in June.
Market analysts have said that Philips' decision could be related to the strong growth of the LCD TV market, and also that, whilst it has a 32.9% stake in LG.Philips LCD, it doesn't have any PDP plants to support its own-brand plasma TV business.
With Sony already pulling out (though maybe not permanently) from plasma screen manufacture, LCD technology improving, and environmental considerations, is plasma technology fading away?
