At the current rate of growth, NEC says that it expects more than 90 percent of all desktop LCD displays it ships to be widescreen by the end of 2010.Source: Bit Tech
Birgit Sommerer, European product marketing manager for NEC’s LCD display division, also said that approximately 50 percent of NEC’s display shipments today are already wide-format LCDs.
Despite this industry shift, Sommerer said that NEC still plans to offer solutions for those that require standard 4:3 displays. She didn’t elaborate on what or how many 4:3 displays we can expect to see in NEC’s range in the 2010/2011 timeframe, but I think it’s fair to say that choices will be more limited than they are today – it’s all going to depend on demand.
Widescreen LCDs to cater for 90% of market by 2011
Posted on Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 5:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
According to forecasts from NEC, more than 90 percent of all desktop LCD display shipments will be widescreen by the start of 2011: