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18/01/2008
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How P-OLEDs are enabling the next generation of video display devices. By Professor Ian Underwood.
 Video glasses, or personal displays, are set to be the next big thing. The market for the delivery of information and entertainment on the move is predicted to follow personal audio as one of the fastest growing sectors of the electronics industry.
Just as MP3 players – and, before them, the portable cd player – have made music a ‘go anywhere’ experience, so personal video players are becoming available, allowing the user to play games, watch movies and view sport on the move.
Already, portable multimedia players are successes. Apple has sold more than 100million iPods worldwide – a growing fraction of them video enabled – and, in its wake, have come hundreds of competitors. The latest update of Sony’s PSP, meanwhile, has a tv out socket.
Yet there are millions more potential consumers who will be attracted by improvements in image quality, screen size and battery life – all of which would provide an enhanced viewing experience.
There is also substantial demand for the delivery of multimedia content over mobile phones. Worldwide sales of video enabled mobiles are expected to more than double by 2010 compared with sales today, according to a report from Infonetics Research (http://tinyurl.com/32chhq). Sales of video phones with powerful capabilities are predicted grow to about $125billion by 2010 from nearly $58bn in 2006, and the number of subscribers to mobile tv and video is expected to increase to 58.6m in 2010.
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Author
Professor Ian Underwood
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