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The Samsung profit forecast that we mentioned in last week’s Display Monitor emphasises that not all is gloom and doom in the electronic business (although it mostly is at the moment!). It did get me thinking about the changes in the electronics business in the last few years. Increasingly, the business has become a ‘hits’ … Read more
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 other hand, we’ve been looking at the poor economic conditions around us and that has dampened things down a bit. What … Read more
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 each company did a lot to guard detail secrets, they basically all bought similar glass and LC materials and used equipment … Read more
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 undermining its business model which depends very much on the PC brands that resell its Windows operating system and Office applications. … Read more
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 Macbook Pro from Apple. There are still some technical barriers to be overcome in introducing Oxide TFTs to large area displays, … Read more
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 whole were down 11.1% on an annual basis, and down 10.9% on a quarterly basis to 10.25 million. “We had … Read more
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’ its OLED TV. However, the announcement was something of a ‘damp squib’ (for our overseas readers, that phrase means a firework … Read more
I was thinking about the TV market and it seems to me that we are at something of a turning point for the entire industry. We had a period of good growth, with the arrival of LCD TVs that consumers really wanted to buy. For a short time there was an explosion of brands that … Read more
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 – but there were more. The real meaning of the Samsung launch of its display business will become apparent over the rest … Read more
The European market for Public Displays hit a new record level in Q4 of 2011. Meko’s DisplayCast service for public displays showed sales of 91,429 in Q4, bringing sales to 311,000 for the year, up 25.4% by volume. Meko’s research indicates that the growth was driven by a maturing industry and a developing understanding of … Read more
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 end, the announcement was the upgraded iPad that we had all been expecting. It would be a mistake, however, to just … Read more
LCD TV sales increased their share to 90% in the EMEA region for the first time in Q4 of 2011, according to the latest TV market research from Meko. Year end figures from the European display analysts show that LCD TVs have finally squeezed PDP and CRT sales into the remaining 10%. However, the European … Read more
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