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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
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
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
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
I was intrigued this week to spot the announcement that it is 25 years since NEC started shipping MultiSync monitors. (For the young among you, in the 1980s and the early days of PCs, there were a range of different graphics outputs from computers. The main colour ones were the IBM CGA, EGA and VGA … Read more
Meko’s latest DisplayCast report shows that European TV sales fell by 8.6% to 16.4 million sets in the third quarter of 2010. Flat panel sell-in quantity was also down quarterly to 15.3 million TV sets, while LED-backlit TV shipments were up to 24% of volume sales from 19% in quarter two. The difference was … Read more
The latest DisplayCast report from European display specialist Meko shows that desktop monitor sales were down by 3.6% compared to the third quarter of 2009. While sales increased by 12.5% over the previous quarter, they were lower than the same period in 2009, which was generally thought to be a bad year for sales. … Read more
Over the years, we have often reported in Display Monitor on the surveys from Interbrand and especially the firm’s ‘league table‘ of the top brands. I was struck by a comment in the FT a couple of weeks ago, that there are only eight Asian names in the latest ranking of the top 100 brands. … Read more
Meko´s latest Monitor Warranty Report uncovers overestimates of nearly 30% by monitor companies calculating their future service costs. The display market research specialist has published its Desktop Monitor Warranty Report 2010, which examines warranty service and pricing in Europe. Based on its current monitor forecast, Meko estimates that monitor companies in the EMEA will make … Read more
Panel pricing and the supply/demand balance are constant topics of conversation at the Meko offices, as they have such an impact on our clients. I said in an editorial in June (Display Monitor Vol 17 No 24) that inventory levels in monitors were rising to such a point that we should expect that panel prices … Read more
DisplaySearch vice president Chris Connery has said that the market for stereo 3D monitors may be ‘come and gone already’. In a blog post to the group’s website, Connery said that while there is an ‘uncertainty’ over the timing for mainstream S3D TVs in the home, the market for S3D monitors represents a ’rounding error’ … Read more
In an editorial article in Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, my long time friend and collaborator, Dr. Jon himself, makes the point that he thinks that he really needs several PCs to support both home and office. I was doing this, with a nice T410 ThinkPad for work that I use in my office with a big … Read more
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