http://www.tvpredictions.com/lcd022711.htm

Washington, D.C. (February 27, 2011) -- Vizio easily defeated the competition in LCD set sales in the United States during last year's fourth quarter, according to a new study from research firm iSuppli.

The research group says Vizio, which is based in California, captured a 27.6 percent market share, shipping roughly 2.9 million units in the U.S. Samsung was second with a 20.6 percent market share, shipping about 2.1 million sets.

Sony was third with just 10.1 percent market share while LG Electronics was fourth with 9.4 percent.

Vizio's dominance in the LCD category was so strong in the fourth quarter that it also finished first in all flat-panel set sales in the U.S. although it doesn't manufacture Plasma sets. Vizio captured a 23.9 percent market share of all flat-panel sales while Samsung was second with a 21.5 percent market share.

The company also was the top seller of LCD sets for the entire year, although its margin of victory was smaller. Vizio captured a 21.3 percent market share in LCD sales in the U.S. while Samsung was second with a 18.8 percent market share.

Vizio has been able to outsell larger and more established rivals over the last few years because of lower prices, innovative technologies and shrewd marketing.

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I actually own two Vizio TVs and I have been immensly impressed.  Got my second one last Christmas.

Blows my brother's samsung outta the water

That's because your bro's Samsung is no good - Samsung LED's are generally the best these days.

Unsurprising news, though. People will generally take cheap over best.

Or at least will when the differences are so negligable.

Maybe - but since I am a videophile, not for me ;)

cheap and walmart have everything to do with this

I don't know about the cheap/wal-mart thing.  I did a lot of research before I got my Vizio LED at the end of January.  About two weeks before, I grabbed a $1700 Toshiba LED and took at back to the store.  The Vizio just seemed like the right buy and after some tweeking, looks absolutely amazing.  I was a little embarrassed that I went with Vizio because I always considered them a weak/cheap brand but its actually a quality product.  I looked at product reviews fro C-Net, N Gadget, Amazon.com, and even youtube.

Would you believe that Vizio was ranked NUMBER ONE on a C-Net list of best medium sized LED HDTV's?  I'll try to find the link.

http://reviews.cnet.com/best-33-42-inch-hdtvs/

While thats interesting, I don't trust CNET. Still Visio has come a long way, but their top of the line is barely on par with Samsung, LG, Panasonic, and Sony. When you get to their low end TVs, they are bloody horrid.