Category Archives: LED

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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LED-Backlit LCD Panel Supply Chain Struggles to Ramp Up Production

Posted by Paul Semenza in Equipment, Flat Panel Displays, LED, TVs on March 18, 2010 | 4 comments

By Paul Semenza – Senior Vice President, Analyst Services, DisplaySearch

Shortages of LED chips and other components (including light guide plates and reflectors) in LED backlights for large-area TFT LCD panels are causing a tight supply of LED-backlit panels for TVs. Panel makers are indicating that they will not drop prices in Q2’10, which will result in a continuing (and perhaps increasing) premium for LED-backlit TV panels 32″ and larger. While temporary (panel makers feel that supply will increase in Q3’10) this could serve to limit the adoption of LED backlights in LCD TVs and monitors in 2010. Aggressive forecasts of 50 million LED-backlit LCD TVs in 2010 are now being scaled back. 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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LED, LED, LED

Posted by Paul Gagnon in LED, TVs on January 7, 2010 | No comments

By Paul Gagnon – Director, North American TV Research, DisplaySearch

Major TV themes at the 2010 CES include 3D, connectivity and LED. LED is a major area of focus that could account for a large percentage of the TV market in 2010 after a modest 2009 result.

LG has no fewer than six new series of LED-based LCD TVs among their total of 11 series of LCDs, totaling 41 models that are 32″ or larger, which should account for a large portion of their lineup.
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TV Faces the Crossroads?

Posted by Paul Gray in Flat Panel Displays, LED, TVs on January 6, 2010 | No comments

By Paul Gray – Director, European TV Research, DisplaySearch

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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.
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