Display Development News articles from November 2002

Display Development News archives from November 2002

MARKET ANALYSIS: LCDs are Standard Equipment at Gateway.
November 1, 2002... The LCD has arrived, at least at one major computer company. In an example of its technology leadership, Gateway, Inc. (14303 Gateway Place, Poway, CA 92064; Tel: 858/848-3401, Fax: 858/848-3402) eliminated the CRT monitors and CD-ROM drives...

SIGNIFICANCE OF LCD AS STANDARD DISPLAY.
November 1, 2002... Flat panels are preferred display technology by home and business They are now at a sufficiently low cost to overcome the huge price hurdle that existed in the past They are on the way to becoming ubiquitous on electronic products Past...

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Bright HDTV Displays for Less Than $200.
November 1, 2002... ViewSonic (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869- 7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) introduced its UltraBrite high-brightness CRT displays. The five new models are designed for users who want optical viewing of graphics, games, videos, and...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 'Glass Platform' TFT Concept.
November 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems, Inc. (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) introduced a family of five TFT products. They are offered as complete standard products and as "glass platforms." The glass platform or...

Sharp Shows Lower Cost.
November 1, 2002... Sharp Systems of America (5901 Bolsa Ave., Huntington Beach, CA 92647; Tel: 714/903-4600, Fax: 714/903-4716), a U.S. business unit of Sharp Corp., announced a new LCD desktop monitor based on the award-winning design of the flagship LL-T1820....

40-in. Direct View Screen.
November 1, 2002... Clarity Visual Systems (9025 S.W. Hilman Ct., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/570-0700, Fax: 503/582-8570) introduced the display industry's first 40-in. direct view Advanced Performance LCD product targeted at replacing plasma screens often...

Wider Angles for Automotive.
November 1, 2002... At the Convergence 2002 Conference, Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA, 5700 NW Pacific Rim Blvd., Camas, WA 98607; Tel: 800/642-0261) introduced its proprietary ASV (Advanced Super View) LCD technology for the automotive marketplace....

Faster Response Improves Performance.
November 1, 2002... Hitachi America, Ltd. (200 Lowder Brook Dr., Westwood, MA 02090; Tel: 781/461-8300) introduced a 17-in. LCD monitor that has almost twice the response time of any other flat panel monitor on the market. This rapid response time makes the...

17-in. LCD TV for Under $1,000.
November 1, 2002... Electrograph Systems (40 Marcus Blvd., Hauppauge, NY 11788; Tel: 800/776-5768, Fax: 631/436-5227), a division of Manchester Technologies, has a new model DTS17-TV which is an LCD that shatters the sub-$1,000 end-user price barrier. The advanced...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS Waiting for Outdoor TVs.
November 1, 2002... New Millennium Media International (200 9th Ave., Safety Harbor, FL 34695; Tel: 727/797-6664, Fax: 727/797-7770), after several meetings with national media and advertising companies, has decided to pursue manufacturing a larger, true-to-scale...

Cambridge Display Adds to Intellectual Property.
November 1, 2002... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Greenwich House, Madingley Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, U.K.; Tel: 44-(0)-1223-723-555) acquired Oxford, U.K.-based Opsys' business related to the intellectual property (IP), commercialization, and technology...

Collaboration Develops TFT Technology.
November 1, 2002... As part of a federally sponsored R&D initiative, DuPont (Wilmington, DE 19880; Tel: 302/695-1258), a leader in the development and manufacturing of OLED displays, and Sarnoff Corp. (Princeton, NJ) have agreed to develop new organic thin film...

MICRODISPLAYS: Smallest AMLCD Using Color Filter technology.
November 1, 2002... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/870-5959, Fax: 508/870-0660) introduced the CyberDisplay 180K, the world's smallest active matrix LCD featuring color filter technology. Designed primarily for portable consumer...

Single Panel from Philips.
November 1, 2002... Another major breakthrough was seen in the display industry as Royal Philips Electronics (3200 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/570-5630) introduced the newest addition to its engaze liquid crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) technology. Known...

Microdisplay Viewfinder for Digital Cameras.
November 1, 2002... Displaytech, Inc. (2602 Clover Basin Dr., Longmont, CO 80503; Tel: 303/772-2191), the leader in designing and manufacturing ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) microdisplays, said that its LightView Microdisplay Engine is featured as the...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Philips Intros Wide Screen LCD.
November 1, 2002... Philips Electronics demonstrated their first wide screen home entertainment projector at the CEIDA show in late September. It is one product that did not make our last issue but we include it here. It is an LCD projector with a stylish design...

Portable Projector Weighs 2.4 Pounds.
November 1, 2002... InFocus Corp. (27700 SW Parkway, Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/685-8887) introduced the Proxima DP1000x, a digital projector that offers both feature-packed performance and extreme portability, which enables business...

DLP Projector for American Airlines.
November 1, 2002... Demonstrating again that DLP technology continues to penetrate the market, Texas Instruments (TI, Box 65474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) said it partnered with American Airlines Center in Dallas to equip key areas of...

In-Vehicle Entertainment Display.
November 1, 2002... Microvision (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415-6847, Fax: 425/415-6600), a leader in light-scanning technologies for displays and imaging, said it has been working in close cooperation with German automaker BMW to create...

HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS: Eyewear Display Views Instruments.
November 1, 2002... The MicroOptical Corp. (230 3rd Ave., Waltham, MA 02451; Tel: 781/326-8111) announced the availability of its Color Video Instrument Viewer (CV-1), the first eyewear-mounted video display for nondestructive testing. It is an ultra-lightweight,...

MATERIALS: Kodak Names Sumitomo.
November 1, 2002... Eastman Kodak (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588-7612) announced that Sumitomo Corp. had been appointed as distributor for Kodak OLED materials in Japan. As part of the agreement, Kodak's Display Products business unit will partner...

NEW TECHNOLOGY LED Uses Less Power.
November 1, 2002... In addition to showing its microdisplay, called the CyberDisplay 180K at CRATEC Japan, Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/870-5959, Fax: 508/870-0660) showcased its new CyberLite light-emitting diode (LED). ...

License Pact for Nanotube Triode.
November 1, 2002... Cetek Technologies (Poughkeepsie, NY; Tel: 845/452-3510) announced that they secured a license with Motorola, Inc. (Schaumberg, IL) to produce and use Carbon Nanotube Triode (CNT) technology. The basis for this particular business...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Venture to Develop Cinema Projectors.
November 1, 2002... Digital Projection International (DPI, Manchester, England) and NEC Viewtechnology, Ltd. (Japan) announced a new venture to develop digital cinema projectors based on industry-leading 3-chip DLP Cinema technology by Texas Instruments (TI). The...

UDC to Develop Communication Device.
November 1, 2002... Universal Display Corp., (UDC, Ewing, NJ) said it has been awarded a 2-year, $2,013,725 cooperative agreement by the U.S. Army Research Laboratories (ARL) to develop new technology to produce flexible, low-power consumption OLED displays and...

Partners Seeking Cost-Effective Projectors.
November 1, 2002... InFocus Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) and Funai Electric Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese consumer electronics company, announced a co- development and manufacturing agreement. Under its terms, Funai will manufacture a family of innovative and...

Three-Five to Supply Cockpit Display.
November 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ) announced that Kaiser Electronics, a Rockwell Collins business, has selected its Brillian Microdisplays and drive electronics as the primary microdisplay source for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the...

Black Layer OLED License Agreement.
November 1, 2002... Luxell Technologies (Toronto, Canada) announced a Black Layer license agreement with Lite Array, a subsidiary of Global-Tech Appliances of Hong Kong, China. Under the terms of the agreement, Lite Array has acquired a production license to...

At Last: Some Breathing Room.
November 1, 2002... Twelve of our sixteen stocks made it into the plus column for the month of November. After a disastrous early fall, it looks as though stocks are headed up, at least for a while. And in the tech stock world, that is good news. The techs have...

CALENDAR.
November 1, 2002... December 4-6, 2002. Ninth Int'l. Display Workshops, Int'l. Conf. Center, Hiroshima, Japan. Contact: Website: www.the- convention.co.jp/IDW/ January 20-24, 2003. Electronic Imaging 2003: Science & Technology, Santa Clara Convention Center...