DisplaySearch, which two weeks ago told us the final quarter of 2004 was a record for Plasma displays, especially those in TVs, said this week that it was pretty much the same for LCD TV shipments, as they jumped 134% in the same period to 3.6M units. For all of 2004 LCD TV shipments grew to 8.8M TVs against 3.6 million panels for the Plasma market. Lower street prices supported the rapid Q4 2004 growth with many size categories experiencing double-digit sequential pricing declines. The lower LCD TV prices were achieved through significant panel price reductions resulting from lower panel costs from new capacity coming online. Europe remained the single largest region for LCD TVs with a 38% share growing…