Author Archives: Chris Connery

About Chris Connery

Chris is the Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays for DisplaySearch. He expertise is in IT applications, commercial displays and digital signage.
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PC Innovation from China? Really?

Posted by Chris Connery in Mobile PCs on January 11, 2011 | 1 comment

By Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays, DisplaySearch and Robin Wu – Analyst, PC and TFT, DisplaySearch

To Western and mature-market PC purchasers, the term “China Innovation” has long been a contradiction. China has been perceived as a region of me-too products and cheap knock-off PCs. Western PC purchasers have often joked about fake brands from China, which attempted to confuse purchasers with real name-brand Japanese, American, European, and even Korean products. China has now become the world’s largest market for desktop PCs, which outpace mobile PC shipments in this market.
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Have 3D Desktop Displays Come and Gone Already?

Posted by Chris Connery in Desktop Monitors on September 29, 2010 | 5 comments

By Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays, DisplaySearch

In rolling out a new technology (or a new spin on an older technology), proponents often try to parlay success in one category of products to other categories. In the case of 3D, many in the PC space looked to piggy-back off the hype in the TV space over the past year. While 3D monitors for vertical applications such as topographical modeling or advanced medical imaging will continue to exist, the evolution of stereoscopic 3D displays and the emerging delivery infrastructure (3D Blu-ray, 3D broadcasts from ESPN, gaming, etc) could potentially open the door to mainstream PC adoption of 3D for both desktop and mobile computers. Many monitor and PC companies showed some type of 3D solution at CES in January.
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LED Confusion Continues

Posted by Chris Connery in Flat Panel Displays, LED, TVs on April 30, 2010 | 5 comments

By Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays and Jennifer Colegrove – Director, Display Technologies

We could have seen this coming… When TV makers began marketing LED-backlit LCD TVs as “LED TVs,” DisplaySearch and others recognized that this opened up the possibility for confusion, especially with totally unrelated technologies like OLED on the verge of mass-market breakthrough. As flat panel displays become widespread in TV and PC markets, buyers and marketers, as well as consumers, can find some of the new technologies confusing. With nearly 1,750 stores in the US, Target is a mainstream mass merchandiser; while not known for carrying IT products such as PCs and peripherals, Target is offering more products in this market like many mass merchants, and they carry a range of products via its website beyond what it offers in stores.
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3D Digital Signage; Spill-over from the 3D Movie and 3D TV Hype?

Posted by Chris Connery in Digital Signage, Display Technology on February 16, 2010 | 7 comments

By Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays, Jennifer Colegrove – Director, Display Technologies, Gerry McGinley – Director, Business Development, DisplaySearch

In the display industry, it is hard to escape the hype associated with 3D. While all eyes are focused on the future of bringing 3D TV to every home, 3D infrastructure and content must be developed before 3D in the home becomes a reality. Continue Reading

Top 10 Over/Under-used PC/IT Display Terms at CES

Posted by Chris Connery in Desktop Monitors, Flat Panel Displays, LED, Mobile PCs on January 12, 2010 | No comments

By Chris Connery – Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays, DisplaySearch

Without a major US tech conference devoted just to personal computers or IT products, many brands take liberties with the “C” in CES and showcase commercial products as well. In doing so, many fail to differentiate between consumer and commercial products, rather showing any product that promotes what they consider hot technologies. This approach often marginalizes features and trends that are truly relevant to the personal computing space. Let’s look at areas where there was too much hype and then where there was not enough emphasis.
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