The popularity of TV hits the market at a very low price, millet feels pressure

The price of the popular TV, which had previously boasted that Haikou had to sell 12 million TVs (aggregate reading) in three years, once let many friends feel emotions. Among the three sizes of TV products that were popular on TV, 55吋4K. The TV is priced at only 2,799 yuan, while the 49-inch 4K TV is only 2,299 yuan, while the 43-inch 4K TV is priced at 1,799 yuan.


It is different from other internet companies' usual freight, on-site installation and commissioning, and base and other accessories. The price of popular TV is the final price, and logistics, installation, and after-sales services do not require users to consume it for the second time. The "gold content" of the price is significantly higher than that of your friends.

Popular TV said that since its release on December 10th, 50,000 orders have been seized in three days of the Double 12 promotional campaign, and the low-price strategy has begun to show results.

The ownership structure behind TV is more complicated than that of friends. Behind the popularity of TV is actually the product of the cooperation of five companies (Oriental Pearl, Mega, Popular, Haier, and Gome). Among them are the licensees for Internet TV content such as the Oriental Pearl, as well as professional television OEM/ODM companies such as Zhao Chi. There is also a chain of distribution channels such as Gome. This is also a relatively rare mode of cooperation in the history of China's color TV.

Of the several shareholders popular in TV, Mega may be the most critical link. This professional foundry company in Guangzhou not only has an annual production capacity of tens of millions of TV sets, but also has excellent vertical integration capabilities in the entire industry chain such as TV R&D, manufacturing, and component procurement. More crucially, this company also has the biggest advantage of Chinese manufacturing: cost control. This is where the popular TV is brave enough to introduce the current minimum price TV.

Although the pricing has reached the "lowest price in the industry," from the hardware configuration point of view, the popular TV can not be considered "Low".

For example, in the most important screen panel, it is popular to say that its TVs all make original 4K panels for Samsung (aggregate reading) and LG (aggregate reading) instead of the lower-cost Taiwan screen; in addition, it will also include motion compensation circuits. To improve dynamic image smoothness. Popularity indicates that its flagship product display performance can achieve a static contrast ratio of 1400:1, a 60Hz screen refresh rate, and a 6ms response time. These hard indicators even surpass most of the higher-priced Internet TV brand products. As for smart hardware, TV is equipped with the MStar 64-bit processor (clock not announced), quad-core Mail-T720MP2 GPU, 8G eMMC memory, not very high-end, saying that the average level in the industry is not an exaggeration.

Content platform and opponents are not much different

The Oriental Pearl, one of the shareholders behind the TV, is one of the seven largest license holders of Internet TV broadcast control platforms in China. It is precisely because of the participation of this shareholder that the popular TV not only does not need to worry about the license issue, but also has a stable source of content.

According to public information, Oriental Pearl’s annual investment in content is about 1.5 billion yuan. Its content features include entertainment films from seven major Hollywood companies. For example, in the history of cinema, the top 100 films have 90 broadcasting rights; in 2015, the top 100 films at the box office have more than 90 broadcasting rights; sports has Premiership. All-time copyrights, as well as the right to broadcast nearly 3,000 games of football, free kicks, tennis, racing, CBA and other sports events each year.

As for the popularity of independent video content, although there is no obvious advantage over video sites such as Youku and iQiyi, the general resources of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tree do not have obvious shortcomings.

This also means that popular TV can achieve a relatively mainstream performance regardless of hardware or content. If we look at its selling price on this basis, its impact on the industry has already been highlighted.

Huge impact on the industry

Since LeTV entered the color TV market, after more than two or three years of market cultivation, more and more consumers have gradually begun to accept these "non-mainstream" and "non-traditional" TV brands. In recent years, it has just caught up with China's home appliances circulation channel from the offline to the online transfer stage, Internet brands formally use this opportunity, with just 2-3 years through online sales to quickly get the traditional color TV companies in the past to be more A goal that will take more time to complete.

This also led to more and more Internet companies entering the color TV industry in 2015. According to incomplete statistics, only 10 new brands entered the color TV field in the second half of 2015. When people thought that LeTV was a new Internet brand, they found that LeTV was gradually reduced to a traditional brand in the form of micro whale, dream, storm, CAN, and popularity.

In the backdrop of a stable or even slightly declining demand for the entire TV market, each new brand will face tremendous pressure in order to survive. This directly leads to the selection of the most easily and most powerful price for these new brands as “blood washing”. "Music millet weapons.

The popularity of TV is so priced that although there are representatives of foundry shareholders trying to exchange market share with extremely low profits, they are more likely to act under circumstances. The price war is often a double-edged sword. The destructive power of such ultra-low pricing for the entire industry is expected to gradually show up in the next year or two. In 2016, the color TV industry will once again be staged as a "fighting storm."

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