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The first quarter of 2011 brought a severe drop in TV sales, particularly in Western Europe, where the overall fall was 10% year on year (YoY). According to European TV research specialists, Meko, these are the first Q1 falls since they started tracking the market in 2004 and the third quarter in a row that … Read more
The SID is one of my favourite shows, because of the sheer depth of technical content – it usually gives me a chance to see what will be at CES next January and the January after. This year’s show seems to be a bit quieter than last year. At the moment, we don’t have … Read more
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
The deal between Philips and TPV deserves a mention. At one level, it is just an obvious final stage in the move of Philips out of the TV business that has been going on for some years. Philips has found that the consumer electronics market, especially the TV market, is a very difficult place to … Read more
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
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
The latest data from European display specialist Meko shows that sales of monitors grew by an encouraging 26.5% in the final quarter of 2010, compared to the previous quarter. In total, 13.4 million monitors were sold across the EMEA region in the fourth quarter of last year, a small reduction compared to the same period … Read more
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
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