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Acer is best known for its well featured and competitively priced notebook computers. It is now making a big push into the living room with LCD TVs - you may have seen its products in the shops already.

In 2006 Acer is targeting to sell around 350,000 LCD TVs and expects LCD TVs to become one of its major businesses in the future. The target is an extra $1 billion in product sales for Acer during 2007 if the company reaches its LCD TV goal.

Acer will extend its LCD TV range with TVs up to 42 inches in size by the end of 2006 and expects to put out a 47-inch model in 2007 assuming the price of components continues to comes down.

Acer has carefully researched its LCD TV product line. Along the way it has found out that people in different regions prefer different levels of color saturation and shading.

As a result, Acer now adjusts the picture color according to which market the LCD TV is headed for.

LCD TV Market Continues to Grow
iSuppli market research forecasts that LCD TVs will overtake traditional CRT TVs as the dominant technology by 2009, thanks to ongoing price reductions and increasing consumer acceptance. The market researcher has set its latest forecast for LCD TV panel production in 2006 to 46.7 million units.

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The so-called Nano-TV is the latest competitor to enter the flat screen TV battlefield.

An agreement has been reached between Applied Nanotech - a US company - and Da Ling Co - a Taiwanese manufacturer - to pilot test the world’s first widescreen nano-TV.

A 25-inch proof of concept was first built in 2005 by Applied Nanotech and it is claimed it demonstrated sharper images than those currently achieved with large LCD and plasma TVs.

The nano-TV has the the official title of Carbon Nanotube Television (CNT). Like SED it is a next-generation display technology that promises better picture quality than existing plasma and LCD TVs.

The flat panel TV scene is getting more and more interesting, because the picture qality of LCD TVs took a leap forward with the introduction of HDTV and will continue to improve as the manufacturing processes and software evolve and mature.

The first nano-TVs will be built with 60 to 100 inch diagonal screens. These sizes and units are expected retail for $US1,300 when they hit full production - this is a competitive price for a flat panel TV that big.

As we mentioned in a previous post, CNT will also be competing with the new surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (SED). SED was recently unveiled by Canon and Toshiba and the first TVs with this technology units are expected to go on sale in the fourth quarter of 2007.

The vendors hope that SEDs will deliver clearer images with no “ghosting” because they are based on technology that is similar to traditional CRT TVs.

The nano-TVs are also designed to be large and flat, and they deliver images to the display using carbon nanotubes with high thermal and electrical conductivity.

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