Coming from any other manufacturer, Samsung's claim that they will sell 10m LED LCD TV units in 2010 would have been a little hard to swallow; but the Korean manufacturer's 650,000 LED TV sales this year give credence to the Korean manufacturer's ambitions.
Figures from US market research group NPD indicate that the Korean manufacturer Samsung captured around 95% of the LED TV market for the first six months of 2009. Their leading position in the LED market is strengthened by the fact that the LED sector is considerably outperforming the regular LCD market.
The impressive inroads into the LED market are due in no small part to Samsung realizing the potential of the market at an early stage along with the introduction of a more affordable range of LED TV's this year, the 6000, 7000 and 8000 series.
Samsung's President Yoon Boo-keun, in an interview with the Korean times stated: "We are doing a good job in evaluating what consumers value most, and integrating our technologies and marketing strategies accordingly".
Commentators were rather sceptical when Samsung claimed that edge-mounted LED's could produce better contrast than locally dimmed LED's if set up correctly and that they could actually react faster to changes in picture brightness.
Confounding the sceptics, first impressions indicate that Samsung's B7000 series does offer black levels which are comparable, if not better than Samsung's and other manufacturers LED TV's which implement 'direct' LED's.
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