After 12 years of challenge in the plasma TV market, company Pioneer, which until now has been one of the leading plasma television set market participants, plans to discontinue its participation in the television business. News about Pioneers intention to withdraw from the TV business had already appeared in February, but now it has become known that the Pioneer plasma panel production will be discontinued in May. The Pioneer will begin in April to offer four new Kuro plasma televisions (RCoA-500A and RCoA-500m 50-inch models, as well as the KPR and KPR-600A-600m 60-inch models). However, after it has produced 2500 copies RCoA-500A-500m and RCoA 50 models, as well as 500 copies of KPR and KPR-600A-600m 60-inch models, Pioneer completely cease production of plasma televisions.

Company: Pioneer has announced that customers in Japan of plasma televisions will be provided service until 2017. year, but are not yet known to the Pioneers plans for service provision in other regions of the world.

Portal hdguru.com reported that such a decision is the famous manufacturer of plasma televisions has been taken because, although the Pioneer was one of the plasma panel market leaders, this segment of the market for quite some time the company has generated losses.

Since 2007. On the Pioneer Kuro in presenting high-quality brands of plasma televisions, a producer in the world has sold approximately 2.8 million Kuro televisions.