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Until now, strong tablet sales and weak TV sales have suggested a massive shift from TVs to tablets. But a slowdown in tablet sales may bring the two categories into a different balance.

Tablet sales are up two percent, says NPD Display-Search—but that’s less than the 14 percent previously forecast, and formerly double-digit increases are expected to turn into single-digit increases through 2018. Now that tablet sales are driven largely by replacements, will TV makers be next to feel the love? That’s debatable, especially since tablets are besieged more by the upsizing of smartphones than by smart TVs or the advent of Ultra HD. Even so, tablets are no longer the TV-killers they once appeared to be.