For those following such things Pacific Media in Menlo Park, California reports that the month-to-month (April and May 2007) increase in flat panel sales was only 1% in volume but 4% in total income. Why the disparity between volume and revenue? Consumers are stepping up to buy the more expensive 1080p models. Given that 1080p now accounts for a third of all flat display volume demand for distributed signals in 1080p cannot be far behind. Charlie Rhodes, a legendary engineer who ran the technical arm of the Advanced Television Testing Laboratories, said some 20 years ago that the old analog standard would not be replaced by a single new high-def standard. Time has proved him to be unerringly right as there are now a plethora of standards ranging from being lower than NTSC to the highest attainable. In "Charlie's future world" each customer will pay for the level of signal and programming quality they can afford. With 1080p being purchased with one thing only in mind -- image quality -it may be time to ask just who will lead the delivery of these higher quality signals? Will that remain a Blu ray or HD-DVD spinning disks task? Or, will cable, telephone, and DBS signal providers find economic justification for doing it? _Dale

Pacific Media Reports Flat Sales for Consumer Flat Panel HDTVs in May Overall revenues grew on the strength of shift to 1080p LCD models

Menlo Park, California, USA - July 18, 2007. Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for consumer flat panel televisions in North America increased just 1% over

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