Article: Display's the thing: consumers pounce on flat panel.(TWICE Retail Roundtable)(flat-panel displays' sales, supply and demand)(Panel Discussion)

TWICE: Falling prices on flat-panel displays helped make them a holiday hit, but strained the supply channel. How did you meet demand?

Jim Ristow, Home Entertainment Source: Typically, the independent channel struggles to get allocation of product. Thanks to some of the new [warehousing] initiatives we made in the past year, we were fortunate to have sufficient microchip rear projection, and plasma was not an issue at all. Our forecasts were met.

While we had very good availability for the members overall, we did have some issues with LCD panels. Those issues were price compression, and with that the underestimation by the whole CE community of just how ...

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