By Dave Walker, Tech Digest - Wednesday, January 2:
Sharp has predicted that 60-inch will become the average TV screen sizes by 2015. Sales data from the last 12 months suggest that big screen TVs are becoming the norm rather the exception, according a study from market research firm Gfk commissioned by Sharp (via Pocket-lint). See the full report for the sales data.
According to HDTV Org, the 50-inch category is the fastest growing segment of the market; however, Sharp is confident that the trend towards bigger screens will see the average flat panel size supersede 50-inch in the not too distant future.
Notes: The Pocket-lint and HDTV Org reports are listed under Alternative Sources.
Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."
Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.
I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.
However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.
I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.
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7 years ago, a 42 inch TV was more of a luxury item then a common size. It would only make sence that it keeps going up. At what point does it stop though. Most people don't have a family room big enough to support such large screens.
is a 73" TV, smallest is 27. anything smaller than that is a sin.
wow 60" is just ridiculous, although by then there will probably be oled and sed tv's, so plasma and lcd's will probably beocme the new crt's and rear projection tv's
Yeah - I don't know about that. I think they are assuming that the size of TV people purchase is only a function of how much they want to spend. So if you want to spend X you just get the biggest TV you can for that amount and since prices will go down we'll all just keep buying bigger sets. I have a 40" HDTV and I really wouldn't want a larger one in my living room.
At first, the 50" Samsung....now the 60" Pioneer...hmmm 72" Sony in the future...maybe when they get away from LCD to really fast OLED or SED tech. :-)