Category Archives: LED

Ten Questions to Be Answered in the Year of the Tiger

Posted by David Hsieh in Display Technology, Equipment, Flat Panel Displays, LED, Mobile PCs, TVs on January 4, 2010 | No comments

By David Hsieh - Vice President, Greater China Market, DisplaySearch

In December, I wrote about the most important challenges for the FPD industry in 2009. Now we are in 2010, the year of Tiger, which represents a vigorous spirit and a ferocious mind-either positive or negative. If the energy of the Tiger fuels FPD market growth, then the whole supply chain will have a prosperous year. The downside risk is that panel or set prices fall in a ferocious way. What are the top questions to be answered in the year of the Tiger?
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The CEA Fails to Dissuade the CEC

Posted by Paul Gagnon in FPD Industry News, LED, TVs on November 19, 2009 | 3 comments

By Paul Gagnon – Director, North American TV Research and Paul Semenza – Senior Vice President, Analyst Services

After many months of debate and discussion, the California Energy Commission (CEC) issued a final decision to implement rules limiting power consumption for TV sets sold in California, starting in 2011.
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IBC Report: The 3D Chasm

Posted by Paul Gray in Display Technology, LED, TVs on September 16, 2009 | 1 comment

By Paul Gray – Director, European TV Research, DisplaySearch

Straight after IFA this year is the IBC Show, a trade-only event in Amsterdam. Although it is historically a broadcast equipment conference, in recent years it has been a showcase for up and coming consumer technologies such as IPTV, content management software and such new receiver hardware as DVB-T2 and DVB-S2.
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All’s Quiet in Atlanta

Posted by Paul Gagnon in FPD Industry News, LED, TVs on September 11, 2009 | No comments

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

Traversing the show floor at the 2009 CEDIA EXPO in Atlanta, Georgia, I can’t help noticing the lack of traffic compared to last year in Denver. It may be the huge (and very confusing) layout of the Georgia World Congress Convention Center, but I suspect more than a few specialty retailers have been forced out of business or decided to conserve precious money.
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Will LED Make OLED TV DOA?

Posted by Paul Gray in LED, TVs on September 7, 2009 | 5 comments

By Paul Gray – Director, European TV Research

Walking around IFA it occurs to me that the competitive niche that OLED expected to occupy (ultra thin, ultimate performance) is rapidly being invaded. We all know that historically the best technology doesn’t always win: What counts is getting over the hill from immature product to a mass-produced, mass-market priced offering.

Seeing the wonderful OLEDs in the Samsung and LGE booths made me appreciate how far LCD has come. LCD screens are bigger than OLED, have equivalent levels of contrast and color saturation, and are just as thin. In real life, I imagine that no practicable screen can be less than
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