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Personal display sales to impact sale of big screen TV sets in US: report
MUMBAI: In the US two new products are on the horizon — the viewer headset and the Personal TV.
Over the next two years, wireless services and consumer electronics companies, in combination with personal display developers, will introduce a new generation of communications and entertainment solutions incorporating headset personal displays. By 2008 a new report has forecast that sales of such display headsets will top $1 billion.
The study Personal Displays: Opportunity Analysis and Forecast 2004 was published jointly by McLaughlin Consulting Group (MCG) and Insight Media. It has noted that the sustained performance improvements and price reduction of microdisplays used to make personal display headsets are driving this phenomenon.
Steve Marsland the author of the report added, “Our industry survey found a strong commitment throughout the solutions value chain to make these consumer applications real. There are two major opportunities: a monocular personal Viewer Headset peripheral for information appliances and a binocular Personal TV display.”
The study has analysed the key performance and price hurdles for consumer Personal display applications as well as the costs for the content, services, and the human factors and ergonomic hurdles. The viewer headset and personal TV are seen as low hanging fruit due to ready availability of content and host systems for the peripheral displays.
The emergence of new personal displays will impact both the design and the existing sales of a variety of the existing consumer electronics products. They include cell phone headsets, portable DVD players, big-screen TVs, PDAs and GPS Navigation Systems.
The McLaughlin Consulting Group (MCG) provides a range of consulting services relating to electronic displays, advanced electro-optical technologies, materials science and nanotechnology.
The Connecticut headquartered Insight Media is a full-service market research company specialising in microdisplay-based products in the projection and near-to-eye segments. It track the full supply chain, finished products and distribution of these microdisplay-based products through its various newsletters, technology reports, forecasts, conferences and custom consulting activities.
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CNN-News18 to host Kolkata Town Hall on Hooghly River
‘Bhalobasa Bengal Inspiring Bharat’ event on April 20 brings cultural icons, trailblazing women and leaders aboard a cruise to celebrate Bengal’s enduring influence.
MUMBAI: Bengal is about to make fresh waves on the Hooghly and this time the current is pure conversation. CNN-News18 is taking its iconic Town Hall format to the waters of the iconic Hooghly River on 20 April 2026 with a special edition titled ‘Bhalobasa Bengal – Inspiring Bharat’. The floating event will celebrate the state’s rich cultural legacy and how its ideas, creativity and spirit continue to shape the rest of the country.
The unique riverside setting draws on Bengal’s history as a cradle of reform, art and intellectual thought. The speaker line-up mirrors that diversity: cultural heavyweights Mithun Chakraborty and Sreenanda Shankar will share the stage with trailblazing “Devis” such as Tanya Sanyal (India’s first woman firefighter in aviation), Ipsita Chakraborty (Kolkata’s first woman bartender) and Reshma Nilofer Visalakshi (Nari Shakti awardee and marine pilot). Music will flow through the celebrated pianist-vocalist duo Sourendro and Soumyojit, while public life and governance will be represented by Smriti Irani, Leander Paes, Saira Shah Halim, Keya Ghosh, Rekha Patra, Roopa Ganguly and Babul Supriyo.
CNN-News18, editorial affairs director, Rahul Shivshankar, said the event honours voices that carry Bengal’s legacy forward. Smriti Mehra, CEO – English & Business News, Network18, added that Bengal’s stories resonate far beyond its borders, especially as the state heads into polls.
From the first woman to battle flames in the skies to legendary actors who shaped Indian cinema, the gathering promises a rich mix of inspiration, courage and candid dialogue. In a city where culture has always flowed as freely as the river itself, CNN-News18 is turning the Hooghly into a floating forum for ideas that matter.
Tune in on 20 April on CNN-News18, CTV and YouTube to catch Bengal’s heartbeat in full flow.
