Paris ― In the buildup last week to Europe's largest consumer electronics show, the product category generating the most buzz was one that's going flat―that is, flat-screen. The venerable TV is seeing a spike in consumer demand, generated not by the arrival of terrestrial digital broadcasts or interactive applications but by the platform's migration to the LCD panel. "The transition most obvious to consumers today is not digital TV but flat-screen TVs," said Peter Rost, marketing director of digital TV at Micronas GmbH, which is showing an LCD TV reference design at Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA). The show opened in Berlin last Friday and runs through Sept. 3.
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