This may well be the year of the flat screen final breakthrough: last week Norwegian oil company Statoil announced they are buying 3,000 flat screens for their service stations throughout Scandinavia from US company View Sonic. Meanwhile Swedish LCD liquid crystal display screen manufacturer MultiQ , which delivered 500 screens to the bank SE-banken last winter, announced that another bank, Nordbanken, is buying 300 screens this summer. Johnny Gravfort, View Sonic’s Nordic sales manager predicts a sale of between 17,000 and 25,000 flat screens in Norway and Sweden each this year. View Sonic offers a 15-inch screen for around $1,800 and a 14-inch for just under $1,300. Private consumers are expected to start buying when the price ratio between cathode ray tube and LCD screen is 1:2. Before that, private buyers aren’t likely to be interested.
