Vision - November/December 2007 - (Page 41) today’s maturing flat-panel tv market means more enhancements as manufacturers tweak their technologies By AllAn RichteR • illustRAtion By Rich lillAsh At some point in the nascent years of television display technology, consumers stopped thinking of cathode ray tube (CRT) sets as CRT TVs. Without much regard for the technology that was bringing them “Life of Riley” or “The Steve Allen Show”, consumers began thinking of their big, heavy bowl-shaped sets simply as TVs. Today’s flat-panel TV buyers are making a similar adjustment. The industry is entering that maturing phase of adoption in which accepting consumers feel comfortable enough with flat-panel TVs to begin embracing them without worrying too much about the prefix before TV. “We’re moving toward that phase in the next year or two,” says Tamaryn Pratt, principal with Quixel Research, a Portland, Ore., research firm. The shift signals a market change that is deeper than mere semantics. Absent any widespread adoption of newer technologies like lasers and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), the differences between flatpanel displays are disappearing. As the old CRT TV market declines, LCD screens are encroaching on plasma territory by getting bigger, while plasma screens are catching up to LCDs with higher resolutions and contrast ratios. www.ce.org November/December 2007 41 http://www.ce.org
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