DisplaySearch, Sideshow Bob, and The 3D Numbers - by Neil Schneider

I'm a huge Simpsons fan, and I will never forget an episode where career criminal Sideshow Bob runs for office.  After winning a landslide vote, he wreaks havoc on Springfield as its mayor.  Fortunately, Lisa Simpson discovers that Bob's winning votes were cast by deceased inhabitants of the local cemetery (human and pet!) - and all is returned to normal.  Well, as normal as Springfield gets, anyway.

What do 3D and Sideshow Bob have in common, you ask?  We shall see!

At the end of September, Chris Connery (VP of PC and Large Format Commercial Displays for DisplaySearch) published a blog entitled "Have 3D Desktop Displays Come and Gone Already"?

His first volley was a slight against Nvidia's GeForce 3D Vision and their related 120Hz monitor sales in the first two quarters of 2010:

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With uncertainty in timing for mainstream 3D TV in the home, the market for 3D monitors seems to have come and gone already. Sell-through of “3D Vision-ready displays” as listed by NVIDIA in the first two quarters of 2010 is less than 3,500 per quarter in all major US PC outlets combined:

Acer GD245HQ 120 Hz LCD Acer GD235HZ 120 Hz LCDAlienware OptX AW2310 120 HzASUS VG236H 120 HzBenQ X2410LG W2363D 120 HzLG W2363DB 120 HzNEC F23W2ASamsung SyncMaster 2233RZ 120 HzViewSonic FuHzion VX2265wm 120 HzViewSonic FuHzion VX2268wm 120 Hz LCD display

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