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Rear-Projection HDTV Sales Rose 10% in March
By Dale Cripps
Founder & Co-Publisher
Posted on May 11, 2006
Category: Business & Investment
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Alsea - May 11, 2006 - Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the large-screen display watchdogs, reported today that unit sales for rear-projection televisions in North America rose a surprising 10% last month. Their March 2006 RPTV Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that sales revenues increased a scant 6%, as average street price dropped 4%.

"DLP models continued to sell well," according to Rosemary Abowd, Vice President with PMA. "They accounted for 64% of the unit market share, up from 59% in February, and up from 51% in March 2005. As for resolution another surprise came when seeing that the 720p models gained three points to take the majority of the unit market share with 52%. This gain was at the expense of 1080p models, which dropped three points to 45%."

Strong sales of 46-, 50-, and 56-inch models catapulted Samsung past Sony to the number one position based on unit sales. The company's 46-inch HLR4667W was the top-selling model for March, boosted by many close-out sales. Sony was a close second in overall unit sales, with four of the seven best-selling models for the month.

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About Dale Cripps

Dale Cripps is a professional journalist who has focused two thirds of his career on the subject of high-definition television. Upon completing his education in business and service in the military he formed Cripps and Associates, South Pasadena, California, in 1964, which operated as a market-development company for aerospace services. In 1983 he turned to television and began what has become a 20 year campaign to pioneer HDTV. For fifteen of those years he published the well-regarded HDTV Newsletter (an international monthly written for television professionals). During much of this same time he also served as the HDTV-Technical Editor for "Widescreen Review Magazine." On November 16, 1998 he launched the Internet distributed HDTV Magazine, which remains the only consumer publication devoted exclusively to high-definition television. In April of 2002 he co-founded with Tedson Meyers of Coudert Bros, the High-definition Television Association of America, which is presently based in Washington DC. Cripps is the president of this organization. Mr. Cripps is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and honored by that organization with the DTV Press Leadership Award of 2002. He makes his home in Oregon.