the 14 to 30" range. Building across these wide scales quickly pushed the prices down across the board. In 2008, LCD TV shipments were up 33 percent year-on-year compared to 2007 to 105 million units. In 2009, LCD TV shipments raised to 146 million units (69% from the total of 211 million TV shipments). In 2010, LCD TV shipments reached 187.9 million units (from an estimated total of 247 million TV shipments). Larger size displays continued to be released throughout the decade: In October 2004, Sharp announced the successful manufacture of a 65" panel. In March 2005, Samsung announced an 82" LCD panel. In August 2006, LG.Philips LCD announced a 100" LCD television In January 2007, Sharp displayed a 108" LCD panel under the AQUOS brand name at CES in Las Vegas. Competing systems In spite of LCD's dominance of the television field, other technologies continued to be developed to address its shortcomings. Whereas LCDs produce an image by selectively blocking a backlight, organic LED, microLED, field-emission display and surface-conduction electron-emitter display technologies all produce an illuminated image directly. In comparison to LCDs all of these technologies offer better viewing angles, much higher brightness and contrast ratio (as much as 5,000,000:1), and better color saturation and accuracy. They also use less power, and in theory they are less complex and less expensive to build. Manufacturing these screens proved to be more difficult than originally thought, however. Sony abandoned their field-emission display project in March 2009, but continued to work on OLED sets. Canon continued development of their surface-conduction electron-emitter display technology, but announced they would not attempt to introduce sets to market for the foreseeable future. Samsung announced that 14.1 and 31 inch OLED sets were "production ready" at the SID 2009 trade show in San Antonio. See also Ambilight, Philips Electronics technology Comparison of CRT, LCD, Plasma, and OLED Large-screen television technology Pixel Plus Quattron, an LCD TV technology from Sharp which utilizes a fourth pixel color, yellow Thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display, a detailed discussion of LCD panels technology References External links Chemicals to fabricate LCD television are distributed by Merck Group (DE), and Yancheng Smiling (CN). Liquid crystal displays Television technology Television terminology