Display Development News articles from June 2005

Display Development News archives from June 2005

DISPLAY MARKETS: Hotels Offer Budding Display Market.(flat panel TV)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... You have a flat panel TV or desktop monitor in your home and most likely another monitor or laptop in your place of business, so why be without one when you travel? Thats the thinking of some of the biggest hotel chains as they close...

Marriott Hopes HDTV Will Lure Guests.(Marriott International Inc., high definition television)
June 1, 2005... High-definition display technology will serve as a real improvement to Hotel guests as Marriott International announced that hotels now have the option to install flat panel HDTVs in guest rooms and lounges. The company expects to roll out...

Lodge Net, LG Deliver HDTV Hotel Solution.
June 1, 2005... LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (3900 West Innovation St., Sioux Falls, SD 57107, Tel: 605/988-1000) a provider of interactive television and broadband solutions to the lodging industry, and LG Electronics USA announced achievements...

SPECIAL SECTION: SID 2005 Unveils Host of New Products.(Society For Information Display)
June 1, 2005... The Society For Information Display (SID, San Jose, CA) held their annual conference and product exhibition in Boston from May 24th to the 27th. SID, with 6000 members, represents the international display community. As usual, the event was...

First 200 DPI Transparent OLED.(Organic Light-Emitting Device)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... OLEDs are in the spotlight and researchers at Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Kyung Hee University achieved the highest resolution in a transparent OLED display to enable new potential for see-through flat panel screens. At the SID...

"Windowless" Technology Cuts Handset Thickness.(CloseView mobile display technology from Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Tel: 31-40- 27-84986) announced CloseView mobile display technology that enables handset makers to significantly reduce the size and thickness of mobile phones and improve the...

Near-eye OLEDs Take Users "Inside" Their Work.(light emitting diodes,eMagin Corp. demonstrates its product)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Virtual imaging technology advances were demonstrated by eMagin Corp. (2070 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12540, Tel: 845/892- 1900, Fax: 845/892-1901) at the SID Show. Among these were Get Inside The Game, in which the companys Z800 3D...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: AUO To Mass Produce G6 37-in. TV Panel.(AU Optronics)
June 1, 2005... AU Optronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan, Tel: 886-3-500-8899, Fax: 886-3-577-2730) the worlds third largest TFT-LCD manufacturer, said it has successfully turned on Taiwans first 37-inch LCD TV panel produced by the companys 6th generation TFT...

4.3-inch Landscape For Mobile A/V Products.(Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas introduces new display)
June 1, 2005... Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (5700 N.W. Pacific Rim Blvd., Camas, WA 98607, Tel: 360/834-8903) introduced a new 4.3- inch amorphous silicon TFT LCD for next generation mobile devices. The new digital landscape display features a...

PLASMA PANELS: HDTV Display has Built- In Digital Video Recorder.(LG Electronics Inc. introduces first plasma integrated high definition television)
June 1, 2005... LG Electronics (1000 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07623, Tel: 800/243-0000, a leader in home entertainment products, introduced the worlds first plasma integrated high definition televisions with a built-in high definition digital video...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: UDC Starts Up OLED Deposition System.(Universal Display Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Universal Display Corp, (UDC, 375 Philips Blvd., Ewing, NJ 08618, Tel: 609/671-0980) announced the successful installation and start-up of a novel full-color OLED deposition system at their technology development center in Ewing, NJ. Designed...

World's First A:Si 40-inch OLED TV.(by Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)
June 1, 2005... This is really big news in the OLED part of the display business. Samsung Electronics (Chung-Ku, Seoul 100-742, Korea, Tel: 82-31- 288-4423) has successfully developed the worlds first single sheet, 40-inch active matrix OLED for emissive...

Brighter LEDs For Backlighting.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Cree Inc. (4600 Silicon Drive, Durham, NC 27703, Tel: 919/313- 5300, Fax: 919/313-5452) has significantly increased the brightness of its blue and green LED chip products targeted for the design of energy saving LED backlighting solutions for...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Mobile Display Can Work in Any Size Room.(introduced by Toshibas Digital Products Division)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Toshibas Digital Products Division (9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618, Tel: 949/583-3000) introduced a high performance projector which is a portable presentation tool for mobile professionals, educators and corporate customers plus small...

Multi-Audience Projector.
June 1, 2005... Now there is a single projection display that can deliver a great sales presentation during the day and a movie a night. The InFocus X3 is a multi-talented projector and can be used to present complicated data, including charts, graphs and...

MICRODISPLAYS: See Through, Headmounted Display For Armored Vehicles.(Microvision Inc.)
June 1, 2005... Microvision Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, Washington 98011, Tel: 425/415-6847, Fax: 425/415-6600), a leader in scanned beam displays and imaging products, revealed its latest version of the Spectrum helmet-mounted, full-color...

MATERIALS: Dow Corning Gets OK To Develop Materials.(hole injection materials)
June 1, 2005... The U.S Display Consortium (60 South Market St., San Jose. CA, Tel: 408/277-2400, Fax: 408/277-2490) said it awarded an R&D contract to Dow Corning (Midland, Michigan) that will focus on the development of novel hole injection materials for...

GE Expands Optical Diffuser Film.(GE Advanced Materials)
June 1, 2005... GE Advanced Materials (Pittsfield, Mass., Tel: 413/448-7383) said it is expanding its Illuminex diffuser film family of optical films for LCD backlighting applications into complete display solutions for applications such as televisions,...

TECHNOLOGY: Nano Emissive Prototype Makes Debut.(product launch by Motorola Labs)
June 1, 2005... Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola, Inc. (1303 E. Algonquin Rd., Schaumberg, Ill 60196, Tel: 847/576-5000, Fax: 847/576-5372) unveiled a working 5-inch color video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT)...

PROCESS NEWS: Roll-to-Roll Flexible Display Contract.
June 1, 2005... The USDC (60 South Market St., San Jose. CA, Tel: 408/277-2400, Fax: 408/277-2490 ) also awarded the latest in a series of contracts designed to investigate, develop and commercialize roll- to-roll (R2R), or web-based, manufacturing of...

PVD System For Flexible Display Study.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... KDF (10 Volvo Drive, Rockleigh, NJ 07647, Tel: 201/784-5005) said that the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University has purchased a 744NT sputtering system for use in flexible display research. Installed in May, this system...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Vitex Gets Order From OLED Manufacturer.
June 1, 2005... Vitex Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) a provider of encapsulation films used in the production of OLED display and organic semiconductor applications, said it has received a major order from a leading Korean OLED display manufacturer. The order...

Stocks Close on The Upside.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... All but three of our display stocks were up as May, 2005 came to an end. The entire market had risen in the late Spring after a series of ups and downs. Most forecasts still call for continued growth in 2005, and we see some of that...

News Briefs.(electronics industry)
June 1, 2005... Sony Installs FPDs in MGM Grand Skylofts. Sony Electronics professional flat panel displays are adding a luxurious touch to the new two story Skylofts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Sony has installed about 250 plasma and LCD displays,...

Financial.(defense contracts and investments)
June 1, 2005... Universal Display Gets $1.7 Million for DOD Contract. Universal Display Corp. (UDC, Ewing, NJ) has been awarded a two year $1.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue...

Awards.(electronic products)
June 1, 2005... 3D Notebook Wins NASA Product of the Year Award. Sharp Corporation took top honors as the Gold Winner of the NASA Tech Briefs 10th Annual Readers Choice Product of the Year Awards. The Sharp Actius RD3D is powered by a range of software...

Products.
June 1, 2005... Tandem Backlight System From Astra Products. A revolutionary Tandem Backlight System, that dramatically enhances the brightness and significantly reduces the thickness of an LCD television, was introduced at the SID Show in Boston. Astra...

Standards.(Video Electronics Standards Association)
June 1, 2005... VESA To Unify Internal/External Interfaces. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced the development of a new digital interface specification for broad application within most forms of displays, including LCD, Plasma, CRT...