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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
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
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
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
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
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