Hitachi leaves the manufacturing of LCD TVs and Plasma Wooo ... in Japan

The return of bad news from the TV manufacturers. In this case the house is Hitachi 's plans to Japan fails to make its entire production of LCD and plasma Wooo series , which shall occur abroad through a series of agreements with third-party.

The decision will lead to the reorganization of its manufacturing plant in the city of Gifu, which so far produced no less than 100,000 television sets a month and was his last television manufacturing plant that still remained active. Previously from Hitachi and had weighed the possibility of closing the plant , but ultimately retained, but now dedicating it to give birth to the manufacture of projectors and various chips for their computers. This transformation will take place gradually, culminating completely for the month of September. We must clarify that although the television series Wooo will be discontinued, Hitachi will continue to sell TVs, but yes, are no longer manufactured in Japan, but will be manufactured by another company and abroad.

This is a movement similar to that made ​​by Philips earlier this year, although in that case, the Dutch chose a sort of joint venture with a Chinese assembler. As you can see, the TV market with low margins rather than to impede their countries joined the so-called "first world", so that almost all manufacturers have chosen to outsource almost entirely the fabrication and assembly equipment. In fact, I recall that almost all television divisions of almost all manufacturers are deficient and are in the red ... so I can not understand the idea of Apple getting into this world . But who knows, maybe his "visionary thinking" becomes the only manufacturer in the world to get up a TV division from scratch and not lose money in the attempt ...