Pivot Software from Portrait Displays is to be used in the latest Panasonic rotating LCD monitors from Matsushita Electric. Matsushita becomes another Pivot licensee to back the emergence of rotating LCDs as an industry standard.
The new Profile 4 models are priced and designed to compete with Apple's flat-panel iMac, which also is built around a liquid-crystal display (LCD) monitor. ARS analyst Toni Duboise said: "Gateway is going after the popularity of the LCD in the all...
Last year, LCD and CRT monitors both accounted for about $15bn in revenue, she said. Flat-panel monitors for desktop computers are expected to surpass traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in revenue this year, a sea change for the display...
Unlike conventional LCD monitors, the new products have acrylic screens and flexible frames that allow them to be folded. Despite this feature, the price tags for the two monitors are similar to those of other LCD products on the market.
Motorola has high hopes for the technology compared both to existing flat-panel displays and to the older but still superior CRT displays. Conventional CRT, displays sweep a beam of electrons across a screen coated in phosphor particles that glow...
A similar situation emerged in recent years when consumers were initially hesitant to adopt a transition from CRT to LCD screens. The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, is currently reviewing a proposal for a newly developed standard...