On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:34 pm, Allen Akin wrote: | On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:44:18AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Remember what fraction of the market laptops are already: those | | are always LCD's. Many people now use them in preference to | | desktop systems.... | | The sea-change away from general-purpose computers toward entertainment | systems and special-purpose devices may make laptop-vs-desktop sales a | weak indicator of the overall display market. Over the next few years | we might see a straightforward split into LCDs for portable devices and | CRTs for fixed-installation entertainment applications.
I agree with you. IIRC dispaly market for 2001 was estimated as 270 million units. This number I think also includes TVs (TV's CRT are often manufactured at the same factory as Monitor CRT's) "Monitor" market itself is probably 170 mil. units. LCD panels.. Well, I would be surprised if they account for more than 30 of this (more than 50 mil. units) Samsung and LG Electronics have HUGE LCD production capacity, vendors from Taiwan are also coming (mostly in low-end), Sharp, NEC and Toshiba are also strong players. So we will see more and more competition in LCD. But I wouldn't expect LCD to replace CRTs in neasrst 10 years. | | Glancing at the Fry's ad in today's Mercury News, I see a 17.1" | 1280x1024-capable flat-panel display is advertised for $399; a 19" (18" | viewable) 1600x1200-capable CRT is $139. The flat-panel's response time Both I damn cheap! Buy them both! ;-) | is 45ms; the CRT's equivalent (frame time) is 12ms. We can expect that | the CRT has better contrast ratio, uniformity of brightness, and color | quality; the LCD has less geometric distortion, higher average | brightness, and is smaller and lighter. | | So which do you choose? Depends on your budget; whether you want | portability; whether your primary use is text or photography or video or | vector graphics or games; and so on. | | I like the distinctions Keith drew in his reply, but I think the natural | conclusion is that both display technologies are going to be with us for | a while. Until new technologies subsume both, I suspect; not until LCDs | replace CRTs. | | Allen | _______________________________________________ | Render mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
