This was the sixth straight win for San Diego

This win is huge for the Ravens, as it helps them in the tiebreakers for the AFC Wild Card. Contenders and PretendersThe playoffs are knocking who is going to answer the doorBrett Favre threw for 392 yards and three touchdowns, and Adrian Peterson had a touchdown run, as the Minnesota Vikings improved to 10-1 with a 36-10 victory.The San Diego Chargers are continuing their quest for the AFC West and got a boost with their 43-14 win over Kansas City. This was the sixth straight win for San Diego.While some teams are perfect, others are perfectly inept.I wouldn’t call the Atlanta Falcons a pretender just yet, but when you lose your starting QB and starting RB, you’re going to be tough to show yourself as a contender. They squeaked by Tampa Bay 20-17, but those miracles can only last so long.Jake Delhomme and John Fox might be on the way out in Carolina, as Delhomme threw four more interceptions, this time against the New York Jets The Panthers are 4-7 and falling fast.. sees annual LCD TV sales 10 pct below target target had already been cut by nearly 30 pct no plans to exit loss-making flat TV business (Adds executive's comments, details on sales targets) By Kiyoshi Takenaka LAS VEGAS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd (6501.T), Japan's largest electronics maker, said its annual LCD TV sales were likely to be as much as 10 percent below target, as consumers put off big-ticket buys during the crucial holiday season.

Hitachi had already cut its LCD TV sales forecast for the year to end-March to 850,000 units from 1.2 million units. On Thursday, a top executive said the firm will probably miss even that scaled-back target. Holiday shoppers nervous about a protracted downturn held back last year, contributing to the worst U.S holiday spending season since at least 1970. nN30335648 However, Sony Corp (6758.T) had said on Wednesday that holiday sales of some of its core products such as flat screen TVs and Blu-ray DVD players, actually beat expectations nL8721846. "With the economy where it is, we had a tough time when it came to sales of ultra-thin LCD TVs, our mainline product," said Shutoku Watanabe, Executive Vice President of Hitachi's consumer business group "We have one more quarter to think about.

But things are unlikely to turn for the better that quickly," he told Reuters in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. nN05368327 Hitachi is the world's fifth-largest maker of plasma TVs, with a 4.9 percent global market share, according to research firm DisplaySearch. In LCD TVs, it has just 0.5 percent of the market, way behind Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and Sony. Watanabe said Hitachi has no intention to exit its loss-making flat TV business.

"There are other electronics products out there like cameras or recorders, but it's a television that is used by everyone from kids to the elders. When we think about our branding, we cannot do without TVs," Watanabe said. Watanabe, however, declined to specify how soon the flat TV business could be profitable, citing an unclear economic outlook. Hitachi in October slashed its annual group net profit outlook to far below market consensus. ((To see Reuters MediaFile blog posts from CES, go tohere)) ((For more CES stories, go tohere)) ((; 1 646 223 6142; Reuters Messaging: )) Keywords: CES/HITACHI(C) Reuters 2009.All rights reserved.Republication or redistribution ofReuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expresslyprohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuterssphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group ofcompanies around the world.nN08200013.