Display Development News articles from April 2000

Display Development News archives from April 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Flat-Screen TVs for Any Room.
April 1, 2000... Continuing to expand the flat-screen TV market, Sony Electronics (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656, Tel: 201/369-3467) is broadening its signature series of FD Trinitron WEGA direct-view televisions. By augmenting the WEGA lineup to include 21...

Low-Cost Flat-Faced 17-in. CRT.(Mitsubishi Electronics America's Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 73)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Mitsubishi Electronics America (5665 Plaza Dr., Cypress, CA 90639; Tel: 714/220- 2500, Fax: 714/236-6172) announced its lowest-cost, flat-faced, 17-in. desktop monitor - the Diamond Plus 73. The new color monitor features a patented state-...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Easy-to-Use Digital Displays.(Compaq TFT8020 and Compaq TFT8020 LCD displays)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. (20555 SH 249, Houston, TX 77070; Tel: 281/370-0670, Fax: 281/514-1740) announced the immediate availability of two new flat-panel displays, the TFT5010 and the TFT8020. Both are designed to offer advanced flexibility for...

First TFT with Built-in TV Tuner.(Samsung Electronics' Samsung Electronics SnycMaster 150 MP and Samsung Electronics SnycMaster 170MP)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Samsung Electronics (355 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/423-7364, Fax: 408/544-4919) is taking the lead in the convergence revolution with the introduction of the ultra-high-end SnycMaster 150 MP and 170 MP flat-panel monitors....

More 18-in. LCDs Hit the Market.(Eizo Nanao Technologies FlexScan L661 and Eizo Nanao Technologies FlexScan L680)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Eizo Nanao Technologies (5710 Warland Dr., Cypress, CA 90630; Tel: 562/431-5011, Fax: 562/431-4811) began shipping award-winning FlexScan L661 and L680 18.1-in. viewable image flat-panel monitors. They are designed to maximize the workspace...

UXGA Packed on a 10.4-in. Screen.(Toshiba's Toshiba LTM10C386)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) continues to push the state-of-the-art in display density. The company introduced a 10.4-in. LCD module with a very small 0.132-mm dot pitch and a 1,600 x 1,200-pixel UXGA format that's more familiar on displays...

Wide-Screen LCDs in the Near Future.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Samsung Semiconductor (3655 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/423-7364, Fax: 408/544-4919) will sample a 24-in. diagonal 1,920 x 1,200-pixel LCD, building on the trend toward wide-screen LCDs with a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, not the...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: 42-in. Display for Multimedia.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... NEC Technologies (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467- 4567) announced its newest 42-in. display that is optimized for multimedia presentation use. Engineered for top performance in training and meeting support...

Direct Digital Display for Broadcast Industry.
April 1, 2000... Electrograph Systems, Inc. (175 Commerce Dr., Hauppauge, NY 11788; Tel: 800/776- 5768, Fax: 516/436-5227), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co. (Hauppauge) introduced the world's first fully integrated direct digital plasma...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS Nanotube FED in Color.
April 1, 2000... The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT, Suwon, Korea) has shown a large-area color carbon nanotube field emission display. The research institute demonstrated a 9-in.-diagonal prototype device with 576 x 240-line resolution at the...

LG Electronics & eMagin to Develop FED.
April 1, 2000... eMagin Corp. (2070 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) and LG Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) announced a Collaborative Technology Development Agreement to further advance the progress of LG...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Energy Efficiency Helps Organic LEDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... The Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618) said its research partners have discovered a variety of new, energy-efficient organic materials to be used with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for the manufacture and...

LED Displays for New Walgreen Stores.
April 1, 2000... Daktronics (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 605/697-4467) will be providing outdoor electronic LED displays for new Walgreen stores as the retailer continues to expand its nationwide chain of drugstores. Walgreens is one of the...

Alliance to Develop Polymer OLEDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Philips Flat Display Systems (FDS, 3200 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/570-5799) said it plans to collaborate with DuPont Technologies to develop plastic polymer organic light-emitting diode (poly-OLED) displays. The effort follows...

MICRODISPLAYS: Philips in Microdisplay Manufacturing Agreement.(with Hanna Microdisplay Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Philips Flat Panel Display Systems (FDS, 3200 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134, Tel: 408/570-5799), a business group of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, entered into an agreement with Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc. (HMTI,...

Investments for Wireless Displays.(Cree and General Electric Pension Trust to invest in Microvision)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415- 6847, Fax: 425/415-6600) said that Cree, Inc. and General Electric Pension Trust (GEPT) have agreed to invest $25 million to accelerate the development of...

SpatiaLight Is Shipping New Microdisplays.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... SpatiaLight (8-C Commercial Blvd., Novato, CA, Tel: 415/883-1693, Fax: 415/883- 3363), a leading developer of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplay devices, said it is shipping SpatiaLight ImageEngine 1280BC microdisplays. The new...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Projectors for Both Computer and Video.(from JVC Professional Products)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... JVC Professional Products Co. (Wayne, NJ; Tel: 973/315-5000, Fax: 973/315-5030) introduced two advanced XGA resolution video and data LCD projectors. These bright and versatile projectors, with 1024 x 768 resolution, combine portability with a...

InFocus, Proxima Plan to Merge.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... InFocus (2700B S.W. Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887) and Proxima Corp. (9440 Carroll Park Dr., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 619/457-5500) said they have entered into an agreement to merge the activities...

Low-Cost Sony Model Uses Polysilicon LCDs.(Sony VPL-CS1 LCD projector)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Sony Corp. (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656; Tel: 800/686-7669) announced an LCD projector, the model VPL-CS1, that is among the first projectors to use three 0.7-in. SVGA polysilicon LCDs. It is priced at an economical $2,999, which makes it...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Team to Make Sunlight Display.(Pacific Aerospace and Electronics and Raytheon Marine)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Pacific Aerospace and Electronics (Wenatchee, WA), an international engineering and manufacturing company specializing in technically demanding components and assemblies, said it recently signed a manufacturing contract with Raytheon Marine to...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Display Standards Head for Japan.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the leading video display standards organization, announced the creation of the VESA Japan Committee to address the needs of VESA member companies, particularly in Japan. The formation...

China Begins Domestic LCD Manufacturing.(Jilin Caijing Digital Hi-Tech Panels Ltd.)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... China's first TFT LCD maker is gearing up to launch volume production in coming months. Jilin Caijing Digital Hi-Tech Panels, Ltd. (JCT) said its monthly capacity for 16-in. substrates will initially be 5,000, but plans are to increase the...

NEC Leads Worldwide LCD Monitor Market.
April 1, 2000... NEC (Itasca, IL) leads the LCD market for the third consecutive year with a 19.3% market share position for the year, according to DisplaySearch, an Austin, Texas-based market research firm. According to a study by DisplaySearch, NEC had a...

NEC and Sanyo Raise Driver Output.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... NEC Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. have agreed to tie up the field of TFT LCD driver ICs. The objective is to meet market demands for the stable supply of these key components. To meet the goal, the companies will raise the monthly...

LG Philips Sells One Million TFTs.
April 1, 2000... LG Philips LCD Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that sales of the company's 15.1-in. TFT LCDs for use in desktop monitor applications have exceeded 1 million units. This major corporate milestone is valued at approximately $550 million...

MEETINGS: Microdisplays to Be Featured at SID.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Microdisplays, displays with diagonals of an inch or less that are used behind magnifiers or projectors, have been under development for years, and a few have been successful in relatively limited applications. But the number of new product...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
April 1, 2000... May 14-19, 2000, SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, Long Beach Convention Ctr., Long Beach, CA. Contact: Jay Morreale, Palisades Institute for Research Services, 411 Lafayette St., NY City, NY 10003; Tel: 212/460-8090. ...

Near-Eye Displays in Pre-Production.(Three-Five Systems, Inviso)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems, Inc. (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85251; Tel: 602/389- 8600) said it has begun shipping pre-production volumes of LCoS (liquid crystal- on-silicon) microdisplays to Inviso, Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company...