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Display Events calendar on Meko site

Meko has launched a calendar of Display Industry events on its website. Covering forthcoming events in Europe and the rest of the world, it gives a quick overview of what’s coming up for anyone interested in TV, cinema, FPDs, OLEDs, LEDs, digital signage and general technology. Event reports for many of these conferences and shows … Read more

The end of geography for TV

I managed a day at the Anga Cable show in Germany last week. That was interesting, especially as it highlighted both the clear trend for HbbTV, the Franco/German OTT system for TV, and it also showed how the technology change of the internet coming to TV is causing real problems for the existing TV business … Read more

Connected TV sales grow faster than 3D at end of 2010

Demand for TV sets continued to grow in the last quarter of 2010, with a total of 24 million TV sets shipped to EMEA; an increase of 5% year on year. Most of the growth was from Eastern Europe and the MEA region according to Market Research specialist, Meko.   The key product areas showing … Read more

Excitement

Looking at the news this week, and catching up with the technology news especially, I realised that the display industry is starting to get really interesting again. Since I started in the business, there was promise of flat panels and then a battle between LCD and all the ‘pretenders’ to the crown of top display. … Read more

Lots of PCs – part 2

In a previous post, I mentioned that I was trying to simplify my life by using my notebook PC both at home to replace my home PC and for all my work. I promised to report back, but so far I haven’t.The experiment has been very successful and my home PC was recently retired to … Read more

TV Set Brands fight with price in February

February is a tough time for the CE business as sales are low and retailers are mostly trying to clear their stocks. This is magnified for the TV business as it is the segment with highest revenue in the CE market. TV brands want to introduce their new models but, before that, stock in the … Read more

21:9 – Bah! Humbug!

One of the key trends that we saw from panel makers LG Display and AU Optronics at the CES show is the release of more 21:9 aspect ratio panels and three new TVs using that aspect ratio from US hot TV seller Vizio. I berate the panel business often enough for not innovating from the … Read more

Please give up VGA & LVDS!

I thought I’d pick up on another of the stories from this week’s issue, the release put out by the big PC and chip companies in support of a switch to DisplayPort and HDMI. Even now, with widespread and growing support, the companies are suggesting another five years before VGA and LVDS disappear. That will … Read more