TV Faces the Crossroads?
By Paul Gray – Director, European TV Research, DisplaySearch
At our 2008 TV Supply Chain Conference, I formulated the longer-term challenge for TV setmakers as being how to face the internet revolution-otherwise they would end up in the monitor business.
At the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, some of the press conferences revealed that choice. Toshiba have clearly embraced the idea of the smart TV with their Cell TV: not only is it a conventional TV, but also a terabyte server that can play back to other sets around the home. An hour earlier, Netgear showed its Stora consumer network storage device, which not only allows content sharing around the home, but also has video processing functions.
For Toshiba the TV is central; in Netgear’s view it is merely a big monitor. This to me is the big battle for TV. Such matters as LED backlighting and 3D are by comparison squabbles between set makers, but do not address the real competition to the TV industry from the coming disruption of content delivery.
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