DisplaySearch Forecasts $3B Market for FPD Public Displays b

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AUSTIN, TEXAS, December 1, 2005-DisplaySearch, an NPD Group Company and the worldwide leader in display market research, issued the first edition of its newest Quarterly Public Display Shipment and Forecast Report indicating that worldwide shipments of large flat-panel displays for non-TV applications reached a worldwide total of 87K units in Q2'05. While this number was slightly down from the Q1'05 worldwide total of 96.4K units, recent price reductions in both plasma (PDP) and large-format LCD (26"+) panels are forecast to accelerate this market to over 400K units for 2005, and double-digit unit Y/Y growth is forecast through 2009 to reach 1.8M units. Conservative estimates of the worldwide market show the total Compound Annual Growth (CARG) rate for PDPs used in such applications to be as much as 10% from 2004-2009 with LCDs forecast to have an even larger CARG of 82% from 2004 to 2009! , resulting in an overall explosive 36% CARG for the flat panel public display market.



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