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Is the monitor industry worth saving?

by Bob Raikes

On the one hand, brands have spent the last few weeks trying to be positive and innovative to drive their markets, whether in the consumer electronics, digital signage or the broadcast market. On the …

Tags:monitor industry| monitor maker| monitor resolution

OLEDs and Secrecy

by Bob Raikes

Some years ago, a group of academics studied the LCD industry and found that much of the rapid growth of the LCD business was a result of the cooperation between different LCD-making companies. Although …

Tags:LCD| OLED| Samsung

Surface Changes PC Market Forever

by Bob Raikes

The big story for me this week is the Microsoft Surface tablet launch. I’ve been thinking about the development ever since the first announcement. My first reaction was that Microsoft is mad – really …

Tags:microsoft surface| microsoft tablet

Apple’s challenge to monitor makers

by Bob Raikes

SID this year saw some really interesting innovations and developments in resolution and in OLED development and also in autostereoscopic S3D. One which stood out was the new 5 megapixel Retina display on the …

Tags:Apple| macbook| monitor makers

Call for innovation as monitor sales fall again

by Bob Raikes

The Desktop Monitor market in Europe saw further falls in the first quarter of this year according to the results of Meko’s DisplayCast report for Q1 2012. Volume sales for the region as a …

Tags:Desktop monitor| monitor research| monitor sales Europe

OLED Delays

by Bob Raikes

Down in the south of France, the Cannes film festival has just finished. The annual event always attracts a lot of media attention and LG decided that it would use the event to ‘launch’ …

Tags:OLED| OLED TV| TV

Focus and concentration

by Bob Raikes

Last week saw a number of interesting stories – I noted the completion of the Philips deal with TPV, the Dell acquisition of Wyse and the official launch of the Samsung LCD business – …

Tags:display company| Philips| TPV

iPad Performance Should Challenge Monitor Makers

by Bob Raikes

I must say that I felt something of an anti-climax after the Apple announcement last week. After all the hype, there was a thought that there might be something really revolutionary but, in the …

Tags:display quality| iPad| monitor resolution| monitors

How does Samsung grow its TV business?

by Bob Raikes

My attention was drawn to the news, reported by the FT, that LG and Samsung are starting to see competition in their home market of Korea from store brands and low cost brands. Although …

Tags:Samsung| TV

Sony’s CrystalLED and Alien Technology

by Bob Raikes

While going around ISE earlier this year and looking at the latest innovations, I got to thinking about the Sony inorganic LED TV shown at CES (but not at ISE). For those that missed …

Tags:displays| LED| sony

Samsung sells off its LCD business

by Bob Raikes

So Samsung has decided to spin-off its LCD business into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and to orient its business towards OLED displays. When I first heard the rumour about the split, I …

Tags:LCD| Samsung| Samsung LCD

CES thoughts on HDR

by Bob Raikes

  While OLED was, of course, the big story of CES this year, and it seems to me that there are still lots of questions to be answered about the ability of LG and …

Tags:CES| display| HDR| TV