Editing Liquid-crystal display (section)

=== 2000s ===
In this period, Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean manufacturers were the dominant companies in LCD manufacturing.<ref name=":62">{{Cite book |last=Lan |first=Xiaohuan |title=How China Works: An Introduction to China's State-led Economic Development |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2024 |isbn=978-981-97-0079-0 |translator-last=Topp |translator-first=Gary |doi=10.1007/978-981-97-0080-6}}</ref>{{Rp|page=126}} From 2001 to 2006, Samsung and five other major companies held 53 meetings in Taiwan and South Korea to [[Price fixing|fix prices]] in the LCD industry.<ref name=":62" />{{Rp|page=127}} These six companies were fined 1.3 billion dollars by the United States, 650 million Euro by the European Union, and 350 million RMB by China's [[National Development and Reform Commission]].<ref name=":62" />{{Rp|page=127}}

In 2007 the image quality of LCD televisions surpassed the image quality of cathode-ray-tube-based (CRT) TVs.<ref>{{cite journal | last=De Vaan | first=Adrianus J. S. M. | title=Competing display technologies for the best image performance | journal=Journal of the Society for Information Display | publisher=Wiley | volume=15 | issue=9 | year=2007 | issn=1071-0922 | doi=10.1889/1.2785199 | pages=657–666}}</ref> In the fourth quarter of 2007, LCD televisions surpassed CRT TVs in worldwide sales for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/worldwide-lcd-tv-shipments-surpass-crts-for-first-time-ever/ |title=Worldwide LCD TV shipments surpass CRTs for first time ever |publisher=engadgetHD |date=February 19, 2008 |access-date=June 13, 2008 |archive-date=March 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308140432/https://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/worldwide-lcd-tv-shipments-surpass-crts-for-first-time-ever/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[LCD TV]]s were projected to account 50% of the 200&nbsp;million TVs to be shipped globally in 2006, according to [[Displaybank]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/news/press_show.php?id=2996 |title=Displaybank's Global TV Market Forecasts for 2008 – Global TV market to surpass 200 million units |publisher=Displaybank |date=December 5, 2007 |access-date=June 13, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://technology.ihs.com/389494/ihs-acquires-displaybank-a-global-leader-in-research-and-consulting-in-the-flat-panel-display-industry|title=IHS Acquires Displaybank, a Global Leader in Research and Consulting in the Flat-Panel Display Industry&nbsp;— IHS Technology|website=technology.ihs.com|access-date=August 13, 2017|archive-date=February 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204231250/https://technology.ihs.com/389494/ihs-acquires-displaybank-a-global-leader-in-research-and-consulting-in-the-flat-panel-display-industry|url-status=live}}</ref>