Sharp to stop making LCD at Osaka plant, end TV panel output in Japan

Sharp televisions being “made in Japan” was always an important factor in the purchase decision for many Sharp owners that I have spoken to. I wonder how that group will pivot. Many good options out there.

LCD=OLD

Similar to the previous comment, I remember when it was a big deal if you could get a Sharp TV from the Kameyama plant- Sharp would even put stickers on the front of the TV proudly displaying this fact. Looks like those days have come and gone.

So,Sharp closes in Japan and opens another plant in China or Thailand making the same products.

The manufacturing base in Japan is soon becoming as dead as the dodo.

It can’t be the stagnantly low Japanese salaries directing this move.

No wonder that Japan's economy is down to toilet. All the major electronics fa Tories, the engines of Japan's economy, looks like are going the way of the dodo.

Except overly expensive Sony, the TV market in Japan seems to die or give up to Chinese and Korean products, same as the semiconductors, IT , etc. First was Panasonic, then Hitachi, now Sharp.

What happened to Japan?!?

Except overly expensive Sony, the TV market in Japan seems to die or give up to Chinese and Korean products,

Go into Yamada Denki Namba and tell me if you can even buy an old LCD TV. Sony QD-OLED TV (Korean panel) is what people want to buy. In a store like YD, where all the offerings are lined up side by side, no brainer Sony QD-OLED TVs are the go to for new TV buyers.

It saddens me a little. I remember back in the day, owning a Sony Trinitron or JVC CRT was a big deal. Made in Japan, obviously. Later came Pioneer Kuro plasma and pretty much, that was it for Japan regarding TVs.

As it is now and it has been for a decade already, LG OLED all the way.

I wonder why Samsung TVs could never be found at any Japanese store. Were they banned or something?

I wonder why Samsung TVs could never be found at any Japanese store

Sony has a secret sauce. Go look at the latest Sony TV, IMHO extremely good, whether it's calibration, or rendering hardware, or image orocessing...who knows, they're just extremely good (despite using Korean panel).

Or put it another way, the reason Chinese TV are crap and inconsistent is because they don't allocate sufficient time on the production line to calibrate.

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It saddens me a little. I remember back in the day, owning a Sony Trinitron or JVC CRT was a big deal. Made in Japan, obviously. Later came Pioneer Kuro plasma and pretty much, that was it for Japan regarding TVs.

Nope. Panasonic plasma was up there with Pioneer Kuro. And, once Pioneer pulled out, Panasonic plasma was better than any LCD TV at that time. Eventually, Panasonic stopped making plasma TV's due to both the expense and poor eco performance.