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Category Archives: Small and Medium Displays

3D in Your Hands, Without Glasses

By Jennifer Colegrove – Director, Display Technologies, DisplaySearch

While much of the buzz around 3D this year has been focused on TVs requiring shutter glasses, there is tremendous growth potential for small/medium 3D displays in applications such as mobile phones, cameras and picture frames. DisplaySearch forecasts these and other applications could grow from less than $10 million in 2009 to over $1 billion in 2018.
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New Displays Bask in the Sunlight

By Ross Rubin, Executive Director, Industry Analysis, The NPD Group

At the DisplaySearch USFPD conference, the sun-drenched beachfront of San Diego was an appropriate setting for my panel that included representatives from two companies working on energy-efficient displays that excel at outdoor readability.
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In India, TVs to Cost More; Mobile Handsets and Solar Equipment to Cost Less

The budget released by the Indian government on February 26 includes various measures affecting economic incentives. The mean excise duty on manufactured goods will be increased from 8% to 10%. This signaled the government’s intention to begin to roll back the stimulus package introduced in response to the global financial crisis in late 2008.
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3D Holes: The Missing Bit at CES

By Paul Gray – Director, European TV Research, DisplaySearch

One of the big surprises for me while reflecting on the hysteria at CES was the total absence of 3D still cameras. Digital still cameras have been a runaway success, even if the change in consumer behavior (no more printing) has led to the reshaping of the industry more than expected.
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The Display Behind (in Front of) the Apple iPad

By DisplaySearch Analysts

Nearly a year ago, we at DisplaySearch blogged about what Apple’s rumored (now launched) tablet would be, including what features it might have and what the display technology would be used.  We hypothesized such a device would use a  ~10″ LED-backlit TFT LCD display, have high color saturation, and “…a wide viewing angle both horizontally and vertically.” We also ruled out OLED and sunlight readability as possibilities. In November, we commented publicly on these eventualities. So how did things turn out?
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