Pioneer cease making flat screen tvs

DCFC79

Pioneer the tv firm will cease making flat screen tvs from next year, heres a link, but then i guess no ones that bothered about pioneer as sony, panasonics and samsungs are better tvs

Kenny4315

I thought it was widely recognised that Pioneer had the best flat screen TV's but also the most expensive.

DCFC79

Kenny4315 wrote: »

I thought it was widely recognised that Pioneer had the best flat screen TV's but also the most expensive.

cant comment as i dont have 1, you could be right

paulmx3

pioneer are widely regarded as producing the best plasma screens but they do cost a fair amount more,which is te problem possibly.as with anything of this nature its diminishing returns and are people will to pay so much more for that bit extra.

DCFC79

paulmx3 wrote: »

pioneer are widely regarded as producing the best plasma screens but they do cost a fair amount more,which is te problem possibly.as with anything of this nature its diminishing returns and are people will to pay so much more for that bit extra.

they're probably just scaling back on what they produce, i was just surprised it was flat screens they decided to stop making

chewmylegoff

DCFC79 wrote: »

but then i guess no ones that bothered about pioneer as sony, panasonics and samsungs are better tvs

i've got a pioneer kuro, it's streets ahead of those nasty samsung plasmas.

but you can get a samsung plasma for £700, the pioneer ones cost £1,700. i reckon they're at least £1,000 better, mind.

JayScottGreenspan

If you sell as few units as Pioneer do, it's difficult to recoup your R&D outlay even if you charge double the price of the Samsungs, Sonys and Panasonics of the world.

Shame, because they make very good tellys. Ideally they'd sell the technology to one of their competitiors. They may as well, it'll all be obselete in a couple of years anyway.

Cleaver

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i've got a pioneer kuro, it's streets ahead of those nasty samsung plasmas.

but you can get a samsung plasma for £700, the pioneer ones cost £1,700. i reckon they're at least £1,000 better, mind.

I've always been of the opinion that if you're watching 'When Britain's Animals go Bad in Afganistan with Ross Kemp's Gangs' it doesn't really matter whether you've got a 88" HD plasma or one of those massive boxes from the '80s.

I guess a lot of people watch films though, so a good TV is quite important. I don't watch a lot of TV on the basis that most programming seems to assume I have the intellect of a knat, so until they improve that I'll stick to the one my parents gave me 8 years ago when they got a new one. It weighs about the same as the Ukraine.

Sir_Humphrey

For most people with normal sized tellies, surely LCDs are better nowadays. They certainly consume less juice. Personally, I am happy with my small CRT for the time being. I will probably get a 32 inch LCD when I finally buy a flat/house and have room for a normal telly.

Sir_Humphrey

Cleaver wrote: »

I'll stick to the one my parents gave me 8 years ago when they got a new one. It weighs about the same as the Ukraine.

I just hope it gives off less radiation!

WTF?_2

Sony are rumoured to be about to ditch a division soon - which means they'll be getting out of an entire sector of the market. But which one, I wonder?

Anyway, this is a good example of why deflation won't continue to chip prices endlessly down - with destruction of demand comes destruction of supply.

Couple that with the sinking pound and price rises on a lot of this sort of consumer gear are inevitable. As remarked on this group before, we are already seeing price increases on a broad range of imported stuff. Not to mention the Ford and Vauxhall price rises on cars.