Glasses-Free 3-D TVs Miss Sales Target, Toshiba Says
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Toshiba Corp., the first maker of 3-D televisions that don’t require viewers to wear special glasses, sold fewer than half the sets it targeted in the initial month of sales.
Toshiba, which began offering the TVs late in December, sold 500 of the 20-inch model at about 240,000 yen ($2,940) each, and even fewer of the cheaper 12-inch set, Masaaki Osumi, president of Toshiba’s Visual Products Company, said in an interview yesterday. The Tokyo-based company, second in Japan in TV sales, had planned to sell 1,000 units of each model a month.