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Editorial

TVs Under Pressure
By Stephen P. Atwood

Industry News

Large-OLED-TV Makers Face Manufacturing Challengers
By Jenny Donelan

Guest Editorial

A Look at Television Past and Future
By David Trzcinskil

Display Marketplace: Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent

Selling TVs isn't the profitable business it used to be. And it's only going to get worse.
By Pete Putman

Display Marketplace: The European TV Marketplace

Western Europe is a mature market for televisions and a challenging one for set makers who hope to entice consumers to upgrade for the sake of new features.
By Bob Raikes

Frontline Technology: "Super Hi-Vision" as Next-Generation Television and Its Video Parameters

Future TVs, using a Super-Hi-Vision system, will be able to deliver an enhanced and even unprecedented viewing experience in various environments.
By Takayuki Yamashita, Hiroyasu Masuda, Kenichiro Masaoka, Kohei Ohmura, Masaki Emoto, Yukihiro Nishida, and Masayuki Sugawara

Frontline Technology: Holographic Television at the MIT Media Lab

Several recent advances point the way toward real-time holographic television for telepresence, entertainment, and teleoperation.  This article introduces the concepts and requirements for such system, then presents the MIT Media Lab's work to make them practical and inexpensive.
By V. Michael Bove, Jr., and Daniel Smalley

Enabling Technology: Holiday 2012 TV Trends and Bargains

Last year, the holiday shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas offered deep discounts on televisions.  This year, as manufacturers struggle to compete with each other for market share, shoppers will find even deeper discounts on better sets in a retail landscape that has altered subtly from the year before.
By Jenny Donelan

SID News

Second Annual I-Zone Calls for Cutting-Edge-Technology Demos