Approx 2 years ago Samsung were going to make 50inch the standard size for LCD. How did that work out?

When you say "made $462.6 million this year", does that mean turnover or profit?

If turnover then I'm shocked, if profit then it's probably ok but hard to tell without the turnover figures, assets etc.

This happens almost every time. I think only Charlie writes original stuff. The rest just try to copy and paste and can't even do that. I think they should just start giving us links to original articles.

can't you even do a copy and paste? Mixing up drops in profit with losses.

Clarity from the linked article:
Q1 2009 saw a drop in net profit compared with Q1 2008. This drop was smaller than ANALysts predicted.

Q4 2008 saw a net loss.

Simple