Samsung ask digital sign makers to standardize

In an effort to help spur growth in the digital signage industry, Samsung's chief asks the industry for standards. From aka.tv:

"LCD TV makers should standardize on four large sizes to cut costs and accelerate product-development cycles, the president of Samsung Electronics LCD Business, the world’s biggest LCD maker, said this week.

Lee Sang-wan called on the manufacturers to concentrate on 40-inch, 46-inch, 52-inch and 57-inch TVs, according to a Korea Times report. TV and monitor screen sizes are measured diagonally.

'To save equipment-development and product costs and to accelerate the time-to-market delivery of advanced large-screen LCD TVs, the entire industry should come together and cooperate on LCD glass-size standardization,' Lee was reported saying at a meeting of the Society for Information Display (SID) in Boston, Massachusetts.

'The market is not something to be passively predicted, but actively created,' Lee said."

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