Display Development News articles from January 2003

Display Development News archives from January 2003

YEAR END REVIEW Displays: A Growth Industry.
January 1, 2003... In this annual section, we take a look at the major developments in the display industry in 2002 and then present our findings on the driving forces for displays in 2003 and beyond. We look at the overall industry and some of the specific...

The Future.(Stats for CRT's and Flat Panel Displays)
January 1, 2003... As we indicated, displays continue to grow in both directions- large screens for television and home theaters, and small screens for microdisplays, handheld devices and military equipment. 2002 was a hard year for display prices as it was for...

2003 and Beyond.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2003... We think that the overall economic situation will improve over the coming year and then gradually get back to some semblance of its former self in another year. But this will be a key year for displays. Lots of market demand from many...

The Outlook.
January 1, 2003... There's nothing like an action film featuring a popular hero to introduce display products. Royal Philips Electronics (The Netherlands) says that its new PolyLED, which is a polymer-based organic light emitting diode, made its big-screen...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Integrated Touchscreen Medical Monitors.
January 1, 2003... Advanced Video Technologies (AVT, Marlboro, MA) a division of Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) specializing in the design and sale of high-resolution graphic displays, announced the...

Three High-Brightness LED-Based TFT LCDs.(Lumileds Lighting)
January 1, 2003... Lumileds Lighting (370 West Trimble Rd., San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/435-6044, Fax: 408/435-6855) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; Tel: 81-3-3218-2346) announced the development of three TFT-LCD modules utilizing Lumiled's Luxeon...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: Natural Looking Images With Genesis Chip.
January 1, 2003... Genesis Microchip, Inc. (200 Town Center Blvd., Ontario L3R 8G5, Canada; Tel: 905/470-2742, Fax: 905/470-9022), a leader in display technologies for consumer and PC display products, says that Fujitsu General, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) selected the...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: OLEDs for Automotive and Handheld Markets.
January 1, 2003... Luxell Technologies, Inc. (5170A Timberlea Blvd., Mississauga, Ontario L4W 255, Canada; Tel: 905/206-1709, Fax: 905/206-9174) and Hyundai LCD, Inc. (Incheon, Korea) started a joint product initiative to incorporate Hyundai's OLED technology and...

OLED Featured in Annual Awards.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Eastman Kodak Company (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/580-7612) earned the prestigious "Display of the Year Gold Award 2002" from the Society for Information Display (SSID) and Information Display Magazine, for the Kodak AM550L...

DuPont Bets on Soluable Materials.
January 1, 2003... DuPont Displays (14 T.W. Alexander Ave., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; Tel: 919/248-5031, Fax: 919/248-5219), a business unit of DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, together with Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ) announced a joint...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: 3-Chip DLP for Large Venues.
January 1, 2003... Panasonic (2 Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094; Tel: 201/348-5200) has two new high-performance 3-chip DLP projectors suitable for a wide variety of large-venue applications, and which are significantly smaller and lighter than competing...

Six Pound Projectors for $1,299.(Epson PowerLite models 52c, 53c and 73c )
January 1, 2003... Epson America, Inc. (20770 Madrona Ave., Torrance, CA 90503; Tel: 310/787-6300) introduced three new 6.4 portable multimedia projectors with sleek designs and high value performance for as low as $1,299. The new Epson PowerLite models 52c, 53c...

MATERIALS: Reflectors Get Component Award.(Dupont Displays)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DuPont (Box 80352, Wilmington, DE 19880; Tel: 302/695-1258, Fax: 302/695-4635) received the "Display Component of the Year" Silver Award for its innovative red and blue holographic reflectors from the Society of Information Display and...

Material Will Allow Plastic Transistors.(Xerox )
January 1, 2003... At the December Materials Research Conference in Boston, technologists from Xerox (800 Long Ridge Rd., Stamford CT 06904; Tel: 203/968-3000) described a new material that will one day make inexpensive, lightweight and flexible displays for...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Richardson Named Planar Distributor.(Richardson Electronics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Richardson Electronics (LaFox, IL), a global provider of engineered solutions for the medical display systems market, says it has been named an authorized distributor for Planar Systems, a worldwide leader in flat panel medical display...

3,000 18-inch LCDs for NY Trading Floor.(NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America agreement with Barclays Capital )
January 1, 2003... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (Itasca, IL) says it has entered into an agreement with Barclays Capital to outfit the firm's new North American headquarters, which has the largest trading floor in Manhattan, with 3,000 NEC flat...

DuPont Ships OLED Evaluation Kits.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DuPont Displays, a business unit of DuPont (Wilmington, DE), says it is shipping evaluation kits to customers for its first generation OLED products. They are available to customers so they can perform hands-on evaluation of OLEDs for small,...

OSRAM, Three-Five in OLED Agreement.
January 1, 2003... OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Munich, Germany), a wholly owned subsidiary of OSRAM, one of the world's largest lamp manufacturers, and Three-Five Systems, Inc. (Tempe, AZ) announced that Three-Five will gain the ability to market OSRAM's OLED...

DLP is Product of the Year.(digital light processing technology)
January 1, 2003... During the decade of the 1990s, Texas Instruments (TI) developed the digital light processing technology which uses tiny chips with hundreds of thousands of mirrors on them to produce a colorful, sharp image. Today, this DLP technology is...

DISPLAY COMPANY STOCK TABLE Slow Year, Slow Ending.
January 1, 2003... Only five of our 14 stocks made it into the plus column for the month ending December 31. It was a slow ending to a year in which many expected a recovery to take place. We said that December is a volatile month and it looks as though we...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... January 20-24, 2003. Electronic Imaging 2003: Science & Technology. Santa Clara Convention Center and Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, CA. Contact SPIE at 360/676-3290. February 18-21, 2003. Third Int'l. Display Manufacturing Conference &...