Samsung tops global TV shipments chart in Q3, followed by close rival LG

Concluding updated: December 3rd, 2019 at 15:36 UTC+01:00

Global TV shipments were down 1.9% year-on-year at the end of the tertiary quarter, yet Samsung managed to increase its Goggle box shipments by half-dozen.8% YoY. Samsung is, once again, the top Boob tube vendor in the earth, having shipped ten.41 one thousand thousand units in the third quarter alone.

The visitor increased its Tv sales from the 2d quarter of the twelvemonth when it recorded 8.ix meg shipments. However, its closest rival LG is keeping up the pace as well, having shipped 7.44 meg units in Q3, up from 5.94 million in Q2.

Samsung maintains its lead in the Idiot box segment

Samsung shipped a good portion of all of the TVs that have reached the market in the tertiary quarter. Total shipments have reached 54.97 million, and Samsung TVs accounted for roughly 20% of that. With Black Friday backside us and the vacation shopping flavour but around the corner, TrendForce estimates that global TV shipments volition ascension to around 65.five million units in the fourth quarter of 2019.

It remains to be seen if Samsung will maintain its top spot in the global market, merely if anyone has a chance of challenging the tech behemothic, it's going to exist LG. The rivalry between Samsung and LG has been heating up lately, to the point where the latter company has launched a direct set on on LG's OLED TVs through its YouTube channel equally a mode to influence prospective buyers into avoiding LG'south solution.

Samsung seemingly has big plans for 2020 as well. The visitor is said to ready a new TV lineup for CES 2020, one that could adopt deep-learning AI solutions to improve 8K upscaling as well as sound quality.

Are you in the marketplace for a new TV or have yous already bought 1 on Black Friday? Will you buy one by the terminate of the twelvemonth, or are you going to wait for the 2020 serial to be introduced at CES? Join usa in the comment section.