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Chaebols in the Matrix

Looking back on the year, the big trend has been the increasing dominance of the 2 x 2 matrix of Apple and Samsung, phones and tablets. If you don’t fit one of the four quadrants in that matrix and you’re in the electronics business, you probably didn’t have a great year. Even though tech giant … Read more

DOOH is on the rise

Both desktop monitors (DTMs) and TV forecasting have been fairly negative processes in recent quarters. In all three of the markets that we track, larger sized sets are growing in share, but in Public Displays, the rate of growth is higher than the fall in pricing that we expect, so the value of the market … Read more

High Five with Christian Thévot of Texas Instruments

Christian Thévot is the Business development manager, DLP pico, Texas Instruments. Christian manages TI’s DLP pico projection products in EMEA, working with companies using these technologies to promote them across the region. 1. What do you consider are the five most important market developments in the last five years?Over the past five years the world … Read more

Windows 8 Launch

Windows 8 was launched last week. The general reaction is the same as I highlighted when I saw the original Microsoft Surface announcement, that the O/S is a good one from the technical and stability point of view, but that it seems to be very confusing for the user. There seem to be four distinct … Read more

High Five with Christoph Dassau of Ingram Micro

Christoph Dassau Ingram Micro

We recently decided to introduce a new feature that we’re calling ‘High Five’. We’re asking industry insiders five questions, each with five topics. Who better to start with than someone that has been at the centre of the European display market, covering monitors, TVs and projectors, for a number of years. A man who knows … Read more

High Five with Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies

Raymond Soneira

RaySoneira is President of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation, and is known for his wide and in-depth knowledge of the display industry and surrounding ecosystems. With the rest of his team, he produces display technology shoot-outs for the latest ‘big news’ products to hit the industry – including smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, TVs and projectors. 1. What … Read more

4k Production & TV

I was thinking recently about 4K (3840 x 2160) products for TV and in the monitor market. There is some scepticism in some areas about the importance of this high resolution and we’ve seen a wide range of forecasts for the TV market from other analysts. We think 4K is important. There are a couple … Read more

Is Electronics a Hits Business?

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

OLEDs and Secrecy

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

Surface Changes PC Market Forever

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

Apple’s challenge to monitor makers

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