Archive for May, 2007

From Competition to Cooperation: Matsushita & Hitachi and the Future of Plasma

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

By Jin Kim, Director of TFT LCD Market Research, and Ross Young, President and Founder This is a follow-up to Jin's original blog post about competitors establishing agreements to cooperate. The original post reported on LG and Samsung getting together to form the Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) with prodding from ...

SID 2007 – “See You Next Year”

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

By Dale Maunu, Vice President The exhibition portion of SID 2007 saw very few ‘customers’ on the last day; it was mostly the exhibitors talking to one another. It is also a time when people are a little more open; they are tired from the week’s activities, their ...

2007 SID Trends – “I’m Touched”

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

by Dale Maunu, Vice President Every once in a while you get to see something that is simple, elegant and makes you wonder why no one did it sooner. Today, I was able to see something that perfectly fits that description: the InfiniTouch Force Panel from QSI Corporation. ...

2007 SID Trends – “Let’s Take It Outside”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

By Dale Maunu, Vice President And so it is that we find ourselves in sunny Southern California looking for trends at this year’s SID extravaganza. Over the years we have seen FEDs come and go, CRTs fade away, OLEDs threatening to become mainstream, LCDs and PDPs battling ...

What do YOU want in your next notebook PC?

Monday, May 21st, 2007

By John Jacobs, Director of Notebook Market Research While I was sitting here staring at the display of my 15.4” 1440 × 400 MacBook Pro (all 300 nits of it), which happens to be plugged into a 20” 1680 × 1050 Dell monitor (also 300 nits), as well as reviewing e-mail ...