LCOS-TVs may fill gap for consumers

But Kolin will keep running its production line of old-fashioned cathode ray tube (CRT) sets, despite waning demand.

"PDP-TVs are very likely to start being phased out of the market within two to three years," said Lee, sharing a similar view with BenQ Corp (明基電通) chairman Lee Kun-yao (李焜耀).

BenQ, a local consumer-electronics brand, has announced it would suspend expansion of its PDP-TV production lines, and focus entirely on LCD-TVs.

Despite the growing interest in LCOS-TVs, Sampo Corp (聲寶), Taiwan's biggest home-appliance maker, has declined to enter the rear-projection TV market, and will focus on the production of PDP and LCD-TVs for its "Claire" brand as well as US and Chinese vendors, including Haier Group (海爾), China's No.1 home appliances maker.