Interesting new research from Meko in the UK:

"The LCD monster is trying to take over every display market, from the small displays on mobile phones to the large TV applications previously thought to be the natural habitat of PDP technology", said Bob Raikes, Managing Director of Meko Ltd, a company that researches the display market. "Even the new OLED technology is under threat from the voracious appetite of the many tentacles of the LCD suppliers".

- LCD monitors are now taking over nearly 40% of the market by volume and over 90% in some countries in Europe. There's a huge growth in LCD supply
- LCD makers are likely to add as much new capacity in 2003 as the entire worldwide LCD supply capacity in 2000.
- Large area TFT LCDs grew by 27% year on year and LCD TVs grew by 54% in the final quarter of 2002.

We got this tidbit from a pitch Meko made about its Display Forum Conference in October, 2003 in Holland. Displays - flatter, thinner, and brighter - are the coolest things in technology these days. We still have a long way to go before they replace CRTs, but the future is looking good: flatter, thinner, and brighter good.