Responses Keep Ringing

摘要

Last month's "Backlight" column ("Ring in the New") consisted of a compilation of predictions from a variety of sources on how the coming year in FPDs might unfold. What I failed to predict was the strong response I received to my request for input from these display-industry participants and observers, and I continued to receive replies after that New Year's column was complete. So, if you do not mind indulging me in a multi-part column, here is what some industry folks expect to see in 2004 in various technologies and application spaces. Al Davis of ClairVoyante Laboratories, Inc., scanned the FPD horizon in applications requiring different sized displays. "We will be seeing more cellular telephones with higher-resolution displays, more options, and more colors," he predicted. "As for monitors, it seems that higher dot-per-inch units, 140 and greater, will be coming into the market. With additional capacity, LCDs will become the televisions of choice, with lower cost and better performance than PDPs," he predicted. "And projection will be relegated to low-cost solutions." Dick Kessler of Sterling Design, on the other hand, foresees front projectors' "growing dramatically in volume for crossover applications - home theater and PowerPoint presentations."