During a time when more of us are watching video than we might have thought we would a year ago, displays have become more important than ever. Popular wisdom might tell you that people are abandoning large screens, but that was far from the case. Sales of large screens have held up. In fact, the average consumer TV size has increased.
Just as sales of vinyl records have increased despite the overpowering market dominance of streaming audio content, traditional video displays, be they flat-panel sets, game-centric monitors, “computer” monitors, or projectors, remains a very viable product category. Given that, it is natural to ask what we will, literally, “see” in the year ahead for those categories.
By far, the largest part of the video display market is what we used to just call “TV sets.” Indeed, they still are that, but going forward they are much more. However, at the end of the day, a display’s main job is to show images as accurately as possible. Based on what was shown both in person and virtually at this year’s CES, there are some very interesting
