Display Development News articles from December 2001

Display Development News archives from December 2001

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: 17.4-in. Unit With Apple Connector.(Formac Gallery 1740)
December 1, 2001... Formac Electronics, Inc. (1510 6th St., Berkeley, CA 94710; Tel: 510/528-9300, Fax: 510/528-9014) announced Formac gallery 1740, the world's first 17.4-in. flat panel display with Apple Display Connector (ADC). Combining form and smart...

Slim Bezel 15-in. LCD From Hitachi.(Hitachi CML 153)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Hitachi America, Ltd. (3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, GA 30092; Tel: 770/409-3000, Fax: 770/409-3028) announced it new 15- in. flat panel LCD monitor. Called the CML 153, it weighs only 8 lbs. and has 23.7 mm left and right bezel width,...

Eizo Shows Five FlexScan Displays.(EIZO Nanao Technologies FlexScan L465, L375, L685)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Eizo Nano Technologies (5710 Warland Dr., Cypress, CA 90630; Tel: 562/431-5011, Fax: 562/431-4811) announced five professional displays to its line of CRT, LCD, and Plasma displays during the COMDEX show. All of them were LCDs and designed to...

Thin Frame Desktops Added.(NEC MultiSync LCD1550M, NEC MultiSync LCD1550X)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) has extended the industry's line of thin-bezel flat panel monitors to appeal to the demands of the growing LCD market. Two new...

Sony's Screen for PS One.
December 1, 2001... Sony Computer Entertainment America (Foster City, CA) announced the latest device in its peripheral arsenal, the LCD screen for Play Station One, the redesigned, compact video game console. The new LCD screen for this game gives the popular...

PLASMA PANELS: Improved Products Debut at Comdex.(LG Electronics MU-36PZ10)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... LG Electronics (LG Twin Towers 20, Seoul, Korea; Tel: 82-2-3777- 3304), a leading producer of digital products and large plasma display panel monitors, showed its 42-in. PDP in 16:9 format at the Comdex Show. It is scheduled to ship in February...

FIELD-EMISSIVE DISPLAYS PixTech in Audi Evaluation.
December 1, 2001... PixTech (3350 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/986- 8868, and Rousset, France) announced the delivery of more field- emission displays to be evaluated by Audi under the European Commission IST development program. The displays are...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS: Higher Brightness for HGED Displays.(High Gain Emissive Display)
December 1, 2001... Telegen Corp. (1840 Gateway Dr., San Mateo, CA 94404; Tel: 650/349-4300, Fax: 650/261-9468) a developer of high technology products in the flat panel display and other fields, said it has successfully completed the next major milestone toward...

Kodak, SANYO Form Joint Venture to Make OLEDs.
December 1, 2001... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588- 7612) and SANYO Electric (Gifu, Japan) formed a global joint venture, the SK Display Corp., to manufacture organic light- emitting diode (OLED) displays for consumer devices such...

MICRODISPLAYS: CyberDisplay in Portable GPS.(Kopin CyberDisplay 320C, Navitrak International Digital Navigation Assistant)
December 1, 2001... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) said its CyberDisplay 320C color microdisplay is featured as the imaging device in Navitrak International Corp.'s Digital Navigation Assistant,...

Kopin Gets Army Contract.
December 1, 2001... In other news from Kopin, the company said the U.S. Army had awarded it a $3.5 million contract to develop a full color version of its CyberDisplay 1280, a 0.96-in. diagonal active matrix liquid crystal display with 1,280 by 1,024 pixel...

Color Microdisplays Added by Three-Five.
December 1, 2001... Three-Five Corp. (1600 N. Desert Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) announced the addition of a standard color super twist nematic (CSTN) display module to its display portfolio. The first in a line of color standard...

SpatiaLight Adopted for Chinese TVs.(HiSense Electric Co., Ltd., China's fifth largest television manufacture)
December 1, 2001... SpatiaLight (8-C Commercial Blvd., Navato, CA; Tel: 415/883-1693, Fax: 415/883-3363), a developer of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) microdisplays, says it has entered into a manufacturing agreement jointly with HiSense Electric Co., Ltd.,...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Home Projector Has Sage Deinterlacer.
December 1, 2001... Sage, Inc. (2460 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/383- 5300, Fax: 408/383-5310), a provider of digital display processors for consumer technology and PC-display products, said that In Focus Corp. (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville,...

Projector Is Portable and Installable.(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Sharp Electronics Corp. (Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, NJ 07430; Tel: 888/467-4277, Fax: 201/529-9636) introduced the NotevisionC40 LCD projector, a powerful mid-sized projector that is light enough for portable use yet sufficiently powerful for basic...

Lease a Portable Projector for $99.
December 1, 2001... InFocus Corp. (27700B SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887) a leader in digital projection, announced an innovative leasing program for the award-winning LP130. Through a limited time offer, business...

HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS OLED-Equipped Wearable Computer.(Virtual Vision eGlass II Pro)
December 1, 2001... Virtual Vision, Inc., the leader in head-wearable display and optics technology, and a subsidiary of eMagin Corp. (1580 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892- 1901), announced the first public demonstration of...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: First Touch Screen Controller Offered.(Texas Instruments TSC2003)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Texas Instruments (Box 65474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) extended its leadership position in touch screen solutions by introducing the industry's first touch screen controller with I2C interface from the company's...

DLP May Be Future of Entertainment.(Texas Instruments DDP1010)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Texas Instruments (Box 65474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) said it was shipping samples of its TABLE-TOP DLP component set family to strategic customers worldwide, providing additional evidence that the company is...

INDUSTRY NEWS Display Orders Tank Up.(White Electronic Designs M1A2 Tank Commander Information Display Modules)
December 1, 2001... White Electronic Designs Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) said that its Display Product Division has received orders of more than $1 million for the M1A2 Tank Commander Information Display Modules. The orders are expected to be shipped over the next 6 to 9...

DuPont Invests in Cambridge Display.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Cambridge, UK), the owner of the fundamental intellectual property and know-how in light- emitting polymers (LEPs), said that DuPont Displays of Wilmington, Delaware, has taken an equity stake in CDT to...

Kopin Files Shelf Registration.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, MA) filed a universal shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue up to $150 million in securities. Once the registration statement has become effective, Kopin may offer, from time to...

Bell Distributes Kyocera Displays.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Bell Microproducts, Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leading value-added provider of storage products and solutions, signed a North American distribution agreement with the LCD division of Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp. The agreement provides for the...

Telegen Completes Regulation S Offering.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Telegen Corp. (San Mateo, CA), a developer of high technology products in the flat panel display, broadband datacasting, and wireless markets, announced that it has successfully completed the first phase of its current fund raising efforts with...

Symmetry Division Adds Value.
December 1, 2001... Symmetry Electronics Corp. (Hawthorne, CA), an emerging leader in the electronic distribution industry, launched its new specialized business unit called the Display Products Value Added Division. It will focus on offering customers in the...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
December 1, 2001... January 29, 2002. 2nd Int'l. Display Manufacturing Conference & Exhibition, Sheraton Walker-Hill Hotel, Seoul, Korea. Contact: www.sid.org/conf/idmc2002/idmc2002html May 19-24, 2002. SID Int'l. Symposium, Hynes Convention Center, Boston,...