As Digital Broadcasts Extend, Sanyo Offers More Flat TVs

摘要

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. is stepping up its efforts to sell flat-panel TVs on a global scale.Sanyo is well established as an important maker of cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs. The company's success in the CRT arena has made Sanyo one of the leaders in the CRT TV market in North America. However, Sanyo is a relative newcomer in the flat-panel TV business. The company's first serious efforts to market flat-panel TVs began just in this fiscal year. The Athens Olympics stimulated sales of Sanyo's large-screen LCD and plasma display panel (PDP) TVs, said Yoshiro Iwasa, President, AV Solutions Co., Sanyo Electric. Sales of Sanyo's LCD-27HD5 have been particularly strong. Introduced in Japan, this TV. is one of the first 27-inch high-definition (HD) LCD TVs to support terrestrial digital broadcasting.