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Flat Panel Display Makers Face Ongoing Weakness
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: A “major slowdown" in demand for large-size LCD displays in December triggered a faster-than-expected fall in panel pricing in both December and January, according to the research firm iSuppli. In a research note today, iSuppli said “price erosion is expected to continue through the first quarter because of the seasonally slow market conditions." The firm said monitor and notebook panel prices may stabilize by the end of the second quarter, but that television panel prices, “will continue to decline through the second quarter due to increased production from newer-generation LCD fabs." Sweta Dash, director of LCD and projection research at iSuppli, noted that the price declines came despite a drop in panel fab utilization rates at many suppliers to 80%-85% in December and January, down from 95% and higher in November.
Network HDTV Quality Tested: GW's Babbling Tells Us The State of ...
The State of the Union address last night was a snoozer, but we HDTV gearheads had fun jumping between the networks, checking out which net was able to deliver the best HDTV signal from lens to screen. This was a notable occasion, because all the networks were using precisely the same feed—the same cameras, same everything—where the only difference was between the Capitol pool feed and the viewer. We took an HD gander at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and HDNet, to see who delivered the crispiest, most colorful and most gorgeous HDTV signal of all. For our eyeball test, we looked at a typical array of HDTV stations on our Samsung 1080p reference monitor, delivered via Time Warner Cable in the medium market of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sure, some of the differences might be in the local transmitters, but this is a pretty good representative sample of HDTV content delivery in the US circa early 2007.
Actiontec expands IPTV-capable CPE offerings
Actiontec Electronics has expanded its line of IPTV-capable consumer premises equipment (CPE) for service providers of all sizes and infrastructures. The company now offers a full range of CPE products to support carriers' triple-play initiatives, claiming to be the first vendor to support every major WAN and LAN distribution standard. Legacy support
These latest offerings include ADSL+, ADSL2+, bonded and VDSL gateways that can manage traffic loads ranging from 24Mbps to 100Mbps, support legacy telco delivery mechanisms as well as new fiber-to-the-curb/VDSL-to-the-house scenarios, and provide room-to-room content distribution with a choice of MoCA, HomePlug AV or HPNA3 networking in addition to Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity. These features, along with bandwidth prioritization and TR-069 remote management capabilities, enable efficient handling of both standard and HDTV programming.
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