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Meet TCL, Haier and Changhong – Chinese home brands all looking to make ructions in the global TV market, threatening the domination by South Korean TV giants LG and Samsung, as well as Japan’sSony and Sharp.
Shenzhen-based TCL (The Creative Life) area already making headway in the Australian market since its launch in 2005 with its Internet ready TV’s, 3D display technology and ultra slim bezel sets, unleashed here in January.
The brand is also big news in Philippines, Thailand, South East Asia and hopes to grow its Aus market share from around 3.5-4% currently to around 10% in the future, according to Paul Widdis TCL’s General Manager, Australia, who says it is “doing very well”, selling in Retrovision, Bing Lee and Good Guys. …
TCL Corp. is ranked at the No. 1 TV brand in its native China, (Hisense is No.2) believes Research & Development is its core strength and recently developed the world’s largest 110″ 4K Full HD 3D LCD screen, debuted in Beijing last week. …
Haier, not yet available in Oz, had its revolutionary 58″ Brain Wave TV, a wireless set controlled by your mind, on show at CES, as well as showcasing home ‘cloud living’, virtually edgeless cloud TV, and glass-free 3D TV. TCL also debuted 20 LCD models and its breakthrough Cloud Life TV’s based on the cloud computing. …
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