Author Archives: Calvin Hsieh

About Calvin Hsieh

Calvin is a Senior Analyst at DisplaySearch. He specializes in TV electronics and the evolution of TVs related to media convergence.
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Sensor-on-Cover to Reduce Layers in Projected Capacitive Touch

Posted by Calvin Hsieh in Display Technology on April 18, 2011 | No comments

By Calvin Hsieh – Senior Analyst, DisplaySearch and Jennifer Colegrove – Vice President, Emerging Display Technologies, DisplaySearch

Projected capacitive touch panels typically use one or two sheets of glass to create the sensor, which, in addition to the cover lens (also called the cover, window, or glass), can result in a complex structure. Because of this, touch module makers are trying to integrate the sensor into the cover lens in order to reduce material cost, thickness, and weight.
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Monitors that Are TVs and TVs that Are Monitors: Here We Go Again…

Posted by Calvin Hsieh in Desktop Monitors, TVs on July 28, 2009 | 3 comments

By Calvin Hsieh – Research Director, Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays, Deborah Yang – Research Director, Monitor & TV, DisplaySearch, and Hisakazu Torii – Vice President, TV Market Research

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it should be called a duck. But how do you classify a platypus?

While the concept of convergence between PCs and TVs has been around almost as long as the PC market, as LCD TVs come down in price (mainly by getting smaller in size) and as the traditional desktop PC market continues to evolve, the definition of the display continues to evolve as well. Continue Reading

From Video Processing to Media Processing?

Posted by Calvin Hsieh in TVs on July 17, 2009 | No comments

By Calvin Hsieh – Research Director, DisplaySearch

Recently a new kind of media processing box became available China called “Little Blu-ray” that can bring HD movies to the TV. While TV sets traditionally have built-in tuners to receive broadcasting signals, the trend nowadays is to enable more powerful decoding and formats through USB 2.0 ports-but this raises the BOM cost accordingly. The BOM cost of this box could be approximately $30 but its retail price is $100 in China, so quite profitable. Instead of a built-in DVD loader, it has a media processor supporting many formats including JPG, MP3, RMVB, H.264 and so on.
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Touch for IT Takes off in Computex?

Posted by Calvin Hsieh in Display Technology, Mobile PCs, Small and Medium Displays on June 11, 2009 | No comments

By Calvin Hsieh – Research Director, DisplaySearch

We saw touch application as a hot topic in Computex last week. Windows 7 supports multi-touch, so lots of IT field players have joined or planned to step into touch. However, the longer term influence to the industry will extend beyond Windows 7 release.
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Xbox 360 Won’t Touch TV?

Posted by Calvin Hsieh in Desktop Monitors, Display Technology, Mobile PCs, TVs on June 4, 2009 | 2 comments

By Calvin Hsieh – Research Director, DisplaySearch

At the E3 Expo this week, Microsoft unveiled their Natal Project, an add-on kit for the Xbox 360 that includes a camera on the TV set top to capture user gestures or action. This makes us think of the Nintendo Wii controller, which uses a CMOS image sensor from PixArt Imaging for action capturing. The difference is Xbox does not need any controller; your body is the controller. To make this amazing feature possible, more powerful image calculating and comparison is critical.
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