{"id":144258,"date":"2022-04-21T18:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=144258"},"modified":"2022-04-21T18:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:12:43","slug":"sony-breaks-into-3rd-place-in-the-us-smart-tv-market-leaving-behind-vizio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/sony-breaks-into-3rd-place-in-the-us-smart-tv-market-leaving-behind-vizio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony breaks into 3rd place in the US smart TV market, leaving behind Vizio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary <b>Sony<\/b>\u00a0faced strong competition in the 2000s from Korean and then Chinese manufacturers, threatening to push it to the margins of the global TV market.\u00a0However, it is too early to write off the Japanese!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/99_techweek.\" alt=\"\" \/><b><i>Sony X95J based on Google TV<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today it became known that\u00a0\u00a0<b>Sony\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0won the 3rd place from\u00a0\u00a0<b>Vizio\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0in the largest smart TV market &#8211; in the United States &#8211; in the 2nd half of the year 2021 in terms of sales revenue.\u00a0The leaders there are still\u00a0\u00a0<b>Samsung\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0<b>LG<\/b> .<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8221;\u00a0<b>Samsung\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0continues to play a key role in smart TV adoption, with over 25% of the US market,&#8221; said\u00a0\u00a0<b>Parks Associates<\/b>\u00a0, an analytics firm .\u00a0\u201cMeanwhile,\u00a0\u00a0<b>Sony\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0managed to reach the third position, which is most likely due to the fact that the Japanese were the first to implement the\u00a0\u00a0<b>Google TV<\/b>\u00a0platform in 2021.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/100_techweek.\" alt=\"\" \/><b><i>Market shares of the top 5 smart TV players in the US<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Smart TVs have become a powerful trend in recent years, demonstrating a real breakthrough in a pandemic.\u00a0<b>Analysts attribute Sony\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0&#8216;s success\u00a0\u00a0in this direction to the introduction of the new\u00a0\u00a0<b>Google TV<\/b>\u00a0platform , which replaced the previous\u00a0\u00a0<b>Android TV<\/b> .<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSmart TVs today play the most important role as the media center in the home, and their further development creates an excellent prospect for integrating all home network devices into a single ecosystem.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0\u00a0<b>Parks Associates<\/b>\u00a0, 56% of all televisions in the US are powered by smart platforms.\u00a0Looking at the global picture, smart TV ownership will pass the 50% mark in 2026, analysts predict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Sony\u00a0faced strong competition in the 2000s from Korean and then Chinese manufacturers, threatening to push it to the margins of the global TV market.\u00a0However, it is too early to write off the Japanese! Sony X95J based on Google TV Today it became known that\u00a0\u00a0Sony\u00a0\u00a0won the 3rd place from\u00a0\u00a0Vizio\u00a0\u00a0in the largest smart TV market [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/sony-breaks-into-3rd-place-in-the-us-smart-tv-market-leaving-behind-vizio\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":144259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-144258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}