Displaybank says LCD to reach 66% of TV sales by 2015
By Steven Kim 
posted October 18th 2007 9:03PM
posted October 18th 2007 9:03PM
In case you hadn't heard, CRT sets are on their way out, and LCD is the display technology that will replace them in popularity. According to to market research firm Displaybank, the LCD portion of TV shipments will grow from 38% this year to 66% by 2015. By our math, that's close to 2-out-of-3. Chalk that growth up to a blanketing of the market -- LCD already has the less than 50-inch market pretty well sewn up, and is already making inroads to larger sizes. We love us our plasma (even at less than 50-inch sizes), but on the showroom floor LCD's are compelling for many consumers. No matter how you slice it, consumers are going to benefit -- put the Displaybank numbers against DisplaySearch numbers on market value for LCD's, and you can see that LCD prices are going to come down even further.
You know, I was really hoping that something else would have taken over by 2015.
720p LCDs are all the rage now? Well, doesn't concern blu-fans and PS3 owners who have enjoyed 1080p/24 for months now, but this may be good news for all the HD DUD fans out there who are enjoying 720p/1080i on their A1 and A2 cheapies. Uh oh, I hear the HD DUD apologists coming with their interlacing/deinterlacing artifacts/moire/jaggies debunking myths... Sure 1080i is as good as 1080p... *sighs and feels sorry for poor HD DUD fanboys*