Display Development News articles from July 2002

Display Development News archives from July 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Plasma Technology Is Coming into Its Own.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... This issue of DTN reports on a variety of news and application features about plasma displays. When we began this newsletter 6 yr ago, plasma displays were an established technology, but there were some problems with color, manufacturing...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Touchscreen LCD for Kiosks and POS.(from Planar Systems)
July 1, 2002... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 N.W. Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) unveiled a 12.1-in. touchscreen flat panel display for point of sale (POS) and information kiosk applications. The company's line of flat...

Digital Camera Has Touchscreen.(Toshiba Imaging Systems' Toshiba PDR-T10)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Also making news in the touchscreen arena was Toshiba Imaging Systems of Irvine, California. They shipped the world's first digital camera to utilize its LCD as an interactive touchscreen menu, called the PDR-T10. Also included is a collection...

NEC Meets Need for Large Monitors.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced their new MultiSync LCD NX Series. To meet home and corporate user demands for comfortable viewing experiences, the company expanded its...

ViewSonic Model Delivers Pixel Density.(ViewSonic VP2290b)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut Hills, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) introduced the VP2290b, a 9.2- megapixel (27.2 million RGB dots) LCD display that produces photo- like images for use in applications where...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: Neurosurgery Can Be Viewed By Staff.
July 1, 2002... In a revolutionary development, a state-of-the-art television screen is changing the way neurosurgeons, their colleagues, and staffs look at surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (5323 Harry Hines Blvd.,...

50-In. Model Has Signage Options.(Hitachi America's Hitachi CMP5000WXU)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Hitachi America, Ltd. (2000 Sierra Point Pkwy., Brisbane, CA 94005; Tel: 650/589-8300, Fax: 650/583-4207) introduced a new 50- in. plasma display known as the CMP5000WXU. This new model joins the 42-in. plasma display, now available with a...

ViewSonic Breaks $5K Price Barrier.(ViewSonic VPW425 and ViewSonic VPW505 plasma displays)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) added to its growing line of products with two next-generation plasma displays-a 50-in. and a 42-in.-that provide optimum viewing experiences by...

43-in. Display for Consumers.(Pioneer Electronics' Pioneer Elite PRO-800HD plasma display)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Pioneer (2265 220th St., Long Beach, CA 90810; Tel: 310/952-2111, Fax: 310/952-2990) unveiled a 43-in. PureVision consumer plasma display known as the Pioneer Elite PRO-800HD. The new plasma display features proprietary technology that provides...

Zenith Cuts Prices on PDP Line.
July 1, 2002... Zenith (200 Millbrook Dr., Lincolnshire, IL 60069; Tel: 877/9- ZENITH) has built on its initial success with the industry's first 60-in. HDTV plasma display panel and repositioned a new, higher brightness, high-contrast 60-in. HDTV display at a...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS: Quebec Transportation Ministry Orders Displays.
July 1, 2002... Daktronics (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 888/325-8766) and its Canadian subsidiary Servtrotech announced the order of 26 Vanguard variable message signs by the Ministry of Transportation of Quebec for installation in the greater...

UDC Showcases OLEDs at Annual Meeting.
July 1, 2002... Universal Display Corp. (375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08619; Tel: 800/599-4426) exhibited recent advances in its proprietary OLED technologies at the company's Annual Meeting held June 27 at the Holiday Inn, Philadelphia. Highlights included the...

MICRODISPLAYS: Single-Chip Color Video OLED.
July 1, 2002... Tality Corp., headquartered in San Jose, California, a leading provider of design services and subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, showed an innovative microdisplay technology that it developed cooperatively with eMagin Corp. (1580 Rt. 52,...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Tabletop Projection TV Delivers Home Cinema.(Samsung Electronics HLM437W and HLM507W)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Samsung Electronics America (105 Challenger Rd., Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660; Tel: 201/229-4000) an innovator in digital TV, is making digital technology affordable for the home theater or living room. The company is introducing the first large...

TI Describes DLP Improvements.
July 1, 2002... Texas Instruments (Box 655474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: (972) 995- 2011) recently described the latest improvements in the Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology at two key conferences-the Society for Information Display in Boston in May and...

Easy-to-Use Benchmark for Meeting Rooms.(InFocus LP650 DLP projector)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... InFocus Corp. (27700 SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887) introduced an easy-to-use, high-performance meeting room projector designed to share resource. The LP650 is the first of several InFocus projectors announced...

Portable Projectors Can Do Networking.(NEC Solutions MT1060 and MT1065)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... NEC Solutions, Inc. (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) introduced the first MT Series generation of portable projectors to offer the pioneering NEC ImageXpress networking technology option along with several...

More Portables, Wireless Units.(Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems PT-L700 Series)
July 1, 2002... Projectors abound in this month's news as Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems (2 Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ; Tel: 201/392- 6920) added to its ultra-portable and portable LCD projector lineup, including two new wireless units. They were...

SOFTWARE: Tool Enables Small Displays.(from NEXIQ Technologies)
July 1, 2002... NEXIQ Technologies (Sterling Heights, MI; Tel: 810/731-6410, and Coralville, IA 52241; Tel: 319/545-5400), a developer of intelligent display and telematics solutions, has introduced a display software solution for 8- and 16-bit...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Phosphorescent AMOLED Cuts Power Consumption.
July 1, 2002... Samsung SDI (3655 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/423- 7364) and Universal Display Corp. (375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel: 800/599-4426) jointly presented a paper entitled "High Performance 2.2-in. QCIF Full Color AMOLED Based...

Sony Shows High Contrast System.
July 1, 2002... Sony Corp. in Tokyo has developed a prototype front-projection display system based on grating light valve (GLV) devices that it claims can increase color reproduction and effect a 3,000:1 contrast ratio. GLV is a MEMS technology that has been...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Microvision Gets More from Army.
July 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA) said it had received a contract modification for an additional $3.3 million from the U.S. Army Aircrew Integrated Systems Product Office awarded through the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). The...

Kopin Maintains Double Digit Growth.(Q2 2002)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, MA) reaffirmed its expectation that total revenue for the second quarter ending June 30, 2002, will increase by more than 10% sequentially, funded by both its CyberDisplay and its III-V businesses. "Based on orders to...

InFocus Launches Educational Website.
July 1, 2002... InFocus Corp. (27700 SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887) announced a comprehensive website- www.infocus.com/education-to provide teachers, administrators, and resellers serving the education market with...

Toshiba Forms Projector Unit.
July 1, 2002... Expanding its portfolio of solutions for corporate customers, Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (CSG, Irvine, CA) said that, as of July 1, 2002, the Multimedia Group, formerly of Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc., and the Imaging Systems...

Philips Teams to Make LCoS TVs.(with Hyunwoo McPlus)
July 1, 2002... Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands said it entered into an agreement with leading Korean electronics manufacturer Hyunwoo McPlus (Seoul, South Korea) targeted at bringing new, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS)-enabled HDTVs to market....

Iridigm Finalizes Funding Round.
July 1, 2002... Iridigm Display Corp. (San Francisco, CA), a developer of flat panel displays for mobile devices, announced an additional $8 million in financing. These additional funds complete its Series-A funding round and bring the total funding in the...

Display Capabilities Acquired.
July 1, 2002... Teltron Technologies (Birdsboro, PA), a division of Video Display Corp. (VDC), has acquired the inventories and proprietary intellectual properties for AMLCD enhancement from the Displays Division of Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc....

Stocks Ride Down with Market.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... As the half-year mark arrived and the economic second quarter ended, all but one of our display-related stocks was in the minus column. The month of June 2002 brought more investor caution and a decided lack of investment in equities. It was...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2002... September 2-4, 2002. The 7th Asian Symposium on Information Display (ASID '02), York Hotel, Singapore. Contact: SID; Tel: 408/977-1013, Fax: 408/977-1531. September 18-20, 2002. Microdisplay 2002, Westminster, CO. Contact: Mark Goldfarb,...