First the PC goes on a chip. Next, the PC becomes a plug-in behind the dashboard of your car, behind a flat-panel display in your kitchen, or inside a set-top box. The PC disappears just the way electric motors are invisible in our lives.
Quotes about flat-panel (9 Quotes)
Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
Clearly the growth is coming from these new (flat-panel) form factors.
I can envision a day when we'll all be watching our flat-panel TVs and will Google the TV to figure out what to watch.
Sony should concentrate on games, movies and music and software businesses rather than hardware businesses. I'm not quite sure about their concentrating on flat-panel TVs because this is a very competitive market.
New television technologies appear ready to take center stage this holiday season, as price declines of 20 percent to 30 percent per annum over the past few years have made flat-panel big-screen prices affordable to upper-middle-class and even middle-class households,
They benefited from strong demand for flat-panel TVs during the holiday season sales period and other external factors, but it will still take some time for them to be truly competitive.
Trading floors are already going to flat-panel displays, for example. And health care services like flat panels because CRT emissions can interfere with medical instruments.
We were previously looking for revenue of 16.1 million and earnings per share of one cent. Weak demand for PCs and flat-panel displays were cited as the culprits.