Posts by Nutmeg Consultants
Leftovers from CES 2020
by Ken Werner CES seems a long time ago, an artifact from an age in which we still went to international trade shows like, well, like CES. But I still have some leftover notes.. These are not the kind of notes from which big, high-concept stories are made. Rather, they are records of some interesting…
Read MoreWhat Now?
by Ken Werner No, this is not a question of cosmic proportions. I’m not, for example, asking how we should tackle the Covid 19 pandemic. Rather, I’m asking a much narrower, display-related question. In early April Samsung Display Company (SDC) announced it would cease all LCD manufacturing by the end of this year. SDC had…
Read MoreSpringtime Droplets
by Ken Werner A late Spring is finally stumbling its way into Southwestern Connecticut. The new green tree leaves gleam in the late afternoon sun, and the plantings are beginning to bloom. I transferred the first tomato plant outside today — the first of two. In short, I’m not inclined to take a deep dive…
Read MoreSharp Created the Mass LCD-TV Market. What Now?
by Ken Werner Sharp created the mass LCD-TV market, mostly by selling LCD-TVs years before LCD technology was ready to support the application. The early Sharp LCD-TVs were truly terrible, in part because the LCDs of the time could not support video rates. But when the technology matured sufficiently, Sharp was already there, commanding over…
Read MoreLG Electronics Launches Rollable OLED-TV at CES — Maybe
by Ken Werner For the last couple of years, LG Display (LGD) has shown a 65-inch rollable OLED-TV screen in its analyst/media/customer suite at CES. This year, LG Electronics (LGE) introduced the LG Signature OLED TV R rollable television set to the public with high-voltage fanfare (Fig. 1). The set is a 65-inch, 4K, OLED…
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