Display Development News articles from June 2003

Display Development News archives from June 2003

MARKET ANALYSIS: LCD Dominates Flat Panel Market.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... At the moment, liquid crystal displays are the leading flat panel technology. Always dominant in the portable monitor market, these LCDs are now taking on the CRT for use as desktop monitors. They are also a huge factor in projection displays,...

Monitors for NYC Trading Floor.
June 1, 2003... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552), the number one standalone vendor of flat panel desktop displays in the United States, said it has been selected by the New York...

LCD Shipments Top Flat Panel Sales.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
June 1, 2003... Coinciding with our lead in to this section, BCC's market analysis of the flat panel display market shows that LCDs represent the largest volume of FPD business. Based on our Report GB-171N, The Changing Display Industry: CRT and Flat Panel,...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Mitsubishi Makes It Move, in Color.
June 1, 2003... Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; Tel: 81-3-3218-2346) said they have developed a new liquid crystal display that incorporates two new technologies. The first is called Compression Feed-Forward Driving (cFFD), a technology that produces...

Four Color Gives Maximum Brightness.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Sunghae Park, Korea; Tel: 82-31- 209-7037), the world's largest provider of TFT-LCD panels, announced the industry's first four-color channel TFT LCD technology. Conventional LCDs have subpixels for three primary...

37-in. TFT-LCD Television.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (5700 N.W. Pacific Rim Blvd., Camas, WA 98607; Tel: 360/834-8926, Fax: 360/834-8903) demonstrated its 37-in. TFT liquid crystal TV display at the SID Show in Baltimore last month. Based on Sharp's...

PLASMA PANELS: Full-Featured 50-in. HDTV.(Sampo America's PME-50X6)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Sampo America (1208 John Reed Court, City of Industry, CA 91745; Tel: 626/336-1236, Fax: 626/336-5236) is selling an affordable, full-featured, high-performance large format plasma display solution that enables consumers and businesses to...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS: Daktronics Gets More International Business.
June 1, 2003... Daktronics (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 605/697-4467, Fax: 605/697-4700) entered into several new agreements for Stadium Display systems and Score Boards. The company entered into an agreement with Walter Bau AG to provide ProStar...

Improved a-Si TFT OLED Performance.
June 1, 2003... AU Optronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu 300, Taipei, Taiwan) and Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Blvd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel: 609/671-0980, Fax: 609/671-0995) said that AUO has fabricated a low power consumption, full-color active matrix Organic...

CDT Grants Graphics Arts License.(Cambridge Display Technology )
June 1, 2003... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Greenwich House, Madingly Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, England), the leading researcher, commercial developer, and owner of fundamental intellectual property for light-emitting polymer (LEP) technology, said it has...

CDT Enters R&D Program.(Cambridge Display Technology )
June 1, 2003... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) also announced the award of a grant from the Department of Trade & Industry in the United Kingdom to develop a new, low-power multimedia silicon application reference platform for the next generation of...

Kodak Brands Its OLED Displays.(Kodak NuVue displays)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588- 7612) said it has branded its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products, which will be known as Kodak NuVue displays. The announcement, which includes the company's active- and...

High-Brightness Yellow Display.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... eMagin (2070 Rt. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12540; Tel: 845/892- 1900, Fax: 845/892-1901) said the latest addition to its SVGA series active matrix OLED is available. The new high-luminance yellow monochrome version of its SVGA+ OLED...

MICRODISPLAYS: High-Contrast LCoS Engine.
June 1, 2003... Brillian Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Three Five Systems (TFS, 1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801), demonstrated a super-high-contrast 720p HDTV1 LCoS- based light engine for the rear projection TV...

Microdisplays Get Smaller Yet.
June 1, 2003... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/870-5959, Fax: 508/870-0660) reduced it second small microdisplays to about half their previous size with the introduction of its new color filter CyberDisplay 113K and the...

Smallest Color Filter VGA Microdisplay.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Kopin also introduced a 0.44-in. diagonal 640 by 480 CyberDisplay Color Filter VGA, which is the world's smallest, lowest power microdisplay with VGA resolution. Its purpose is to enable new consumer product applications and revolutionize...

Near-Eye Applications for Consumer Products.(Displaytech's 311k Display Module)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Displaytech, Inc. (2602 Clover Basin Dr., Longmont, CO 80503; Tel: 303/772-2191, Fax: 303/772-2191), the leader in ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) microdisplays, has expanded its LightView product line to include the 311k Display Module. ...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Multimedia Projector for Less Than $1,000.
June 1, 2003... Epson America, Inc. (3840 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806; Tel: 562/981-3840, Fax: 562/290-5220) announced a major breakthrough in the digital projector market when they introduced the $999 Epson PowerLite S1. This powerful 1,200 ANSI...

InFocus Breaks Price Barriers.
June 1, 2003... InFocus (27700B SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685- 8888, Fax: 503/685-8887) announced a price point of $999 for an award-winning InFocus X1, which makes projectors available to the widest possible audience. The X1 is a proven...

HEADWORN DISPLAYS: Eyewear Display Has Wireless Technology.(MicroOptical's DV-1 Digital Viewer)
June 1, 2003... The MicroOptical Corp. (33 Southwest Park, Westwood, MA 02090; Tel: 781/326-8111, Fax: 781/326-4110), the leader in eyewear viewers for the portable electronics industry, demonstrated its DV-1 Digital Viewer, a color eyewear system featuring...

MATERIALS: Polarizing Film for LCDs.
June 1, 2003... 3M Co. (3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55144; Tel: 800/553-9215) and Nitto Denko (Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan; Tel: 81-(72)-621-0028) have developed a new polarizing film for liquid crystal displays that offers improved brightness, better viewing angle, and...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Iridigm Shows Display Portfolio.(Interference Modulator (iMOD) technology )
June 1, 2003... Iridigm (2415 Third St., San Francisco, CA 94107; Tel: 415/626- 8800, Fax: 415/626-9775) signaled its commitment to become a leading provider of flat panel displays to the mobile device sector by showcasing the latest in its suite of reflective...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Densitron Has CSTN Line in China.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Densitron (Santa Fe Springs, NM) announced the commissioning of their new joint venture LCD plant on a green field site in Kun Shan near Shanghai, China. The new plant will employ up to 1,000 staff under local and Taiwanese management. The...

Wearable Display Contract Renewed.
June 1, 2003... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA), a leader in light-scanning technologies, announced that it has been awarded a $1.6 million addition to an existing development contract from the U.S. Army's Medical research and Material Command (USAMRMC),...

Coordinated Video Timing Standard.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), worldwide leader in video display standards, released the Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) standard. This new standard is a method for generating a consistent and coordinated set of standard...

VDC Gets More Orders.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... VDC Display Systems, a division of Video Display Corp. (Atlanta, GA), reports their order backlog has reached record levels after being awarded $1.6 million in additional orders from L-3 Communications' Link Simulation and Training Division for...

Asia-Pacific Subsidiary for Displaytech.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Displaytech, Inc. (Longmont, CO) started the operations of Displaytech Asia-Pacific K.K. (DTAP). It highlights Displaytech's continued focus on the most important region for the design and development of digital still cameras and camcorders,...

Guess What? Stocks Are Up!
June 1, 2003... Only 1 of our 14 stocks was in the minus column for the month ending May 30, 2003. Both the NYSE and the NASDAQ turned in what has to be called stellar performances for the month-compared with what has been happening in this market. There were...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... June 16-18, 2003. OLEDs Asia 2003, Hotel Nikko Pudong, Shanghai, China. Contact: Email: register@intertechusa.com July 2-4, 2003. FPD Manufacturing Technology Expo & Conf., Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Reed Exhibitions; Website:...