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Wishy washy coalitions?

There has been a lot going on around us. In the UK, we had an election that resulted in a ‘hung parliament’, with no single party having a clear majority. After a few days of negotiating and power-broking, we now have a formal coalition government for the first time in 65 years. In the past, … Read more

ALiS

ALis

Developed by Fujitsu as an improvement to the Three Electrode Surface Discharge method of driving a PDP, which it invented in 1984, ALiS (Alternate Lighting of Surfaces) displays are not made up of enclosed pixel elements with the display electrodes fixed to both top and bottom substrates, as are conventional side discharge PDPs. Instead, the … Read more

Active matrix (AM/TFT)

active matrix

In Super Twisted Nematic LCs, we see how multiplexed addressing allows an array of pixels to be controlled in such a way as to allow a high definition display to be built with liquid crystals. The method used to switch individual pixels in multiplexed displays, called passive matrix addressing, has many drawbacks, such as: Current … Read more

Display Glossary

 The following articles appeared in Display Monitor’s “Word of the Week” section. They define certain words or terms used in computer graphics and display technology.   Some of the definitions may be a little dated now, but we leave them as we have been told that they are still useful. (Brief additions as updates were … Read more

Europeans to buy 700000 3D TVs in 2010

  Stereo 3DTV (S3D) is currently one of the hottest topics in the consumer electronics industry and European market research specialist Meko has released a new 3D TV forecast which predicts that around 700,000 sets will be sold in Europe this year. That will rise to 3.8 million in 2011 and 8.1 million in 2012. … Read more

DisplayCast Monitor Deliverables

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We understand that your investment in the monitor market needs to vary according to your committment. We offer three distinct levels of service: Lite Service – designed if you just need a quarterly “smell” of the market, without a need for by country detail. This report is ideal for suppliers and distributors. Standard Service – … Read more

iPad – a Device between a phone and a notebook?

In the end, in Display Monitor this week, we went with the media flow and decided to report the Apple iPad story, although we remain unconvinced that its importance is as huge as Apple and its many fans have made it (oops! ed.) It’s basically a bigger iPod Touch, as far as we can see … Read more

Internet on a TV – call for an iPad?

I was intrigued to see the result that Americans now see the internet as more essential to their lives than TV. This doesn’t surprise me; I think it has been that way for me for a long time. But, in the words of Andy Grove, the advantage in the ‘Battle for Eyeballs’ has now switched … Read more

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Apple TV?

This is an editorial that I wrote in Display Monitor in March 2010. Most of what I said still seems relevant today!Bob   Once again, rumours of a possible move by Apple into the TV market were floated when an analyst for Piper Jaffray said that he expected the company to make a move into … Read more

DisplayCast Desktop Monitor Service

DisplayCast Monitors

In order to keep abreast of issues within the desktop monitor marketplace, it is vital to receive the right information. Meko has recognised that it is essential for any display marketeer to receive information that is forward looking and which covers a wide scope. Quite often, historical volume information alone can leave you feeling as … Read more