Display Development News articles from September 2000

Display Development News archives from September 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES Shadow Mask for 19-in. Display.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Cornerstone Peripherals Technology (225 Hammond Ave., Fremont, CA 94539; Tel: 510/580-3321, Fax: 510/580-8998) announced a new 19- in. flat CRT monitor, the p1450, as an expansion of its professional product line at a factory direct price of...

Quality Color Matching on Web.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) will ship all 15-in. and larger CRT monitors and flat panel displays with E-Color color correcting software free of charge. The alliance with E-Color,...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: High Contrast and Sharp Viewing Angle.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Purdy Electronics (720 Palomar Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086; Tel: 408/523-8200, Fax: 408/733-1287) released under its Alpha Numeric Display (AND) product line a 6.4-in. VGA color display that features high resolution (640 by 480) and brightness of...

AutoVision System Features LCD.(Product Information)
September 1, 2000... Johnson Controls (5757 N. Green Bay Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53201; Tel: 414/524-1200) designed an AutoVision entertainment system for Ford and Nissan models. Production has been started on the in- vehicle entertainment system that features a...

Replacing CRTs in Instruments.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... The news is full of speculation and discussion about flat panel displays replacing CRTs in the desktop. Now, LCDs are being considered for replacement of small CRTs, such as those used in thermal imagers and other instruments. U.K.-based...

Thin Mobile Pager Display.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Densitron Corp. (10430-2 Pioneer Blvd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; Tel: 562/941-5000, Fax: 562/941-5757) produced an LCD module that is only 1.7 mm thick and weighs only 0.1 z. To attain the thinnest, lightest and most cost-effective visual...

Sunlight Readable LCD for Subnotebook.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Melard Technologies, Inc. (28 Kaysal Court, Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/273-4488, Fax: 914/273-1775, Website: www.melard.com) a leading provider of business-to-business mobile data systems, announced the addition of a 500 nit active matrix TFT...

Largest Viewing Area Available.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552, Website: www.necmitsubishi.com) announced the NEC MultiSync LCD2110, the largest viewable flat panel desktop monitor currently...

18-in. MultiSync Desktop Monitor.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 2000... NEC-Mitsubishi (same address and contacts as above) also introduced the MultiSync LCD1800, the newest addition to its family of award-winning desktops. With an estimated street price of just $2,499, the NEC MultiSync is a competitively priced,...

Display Navigates Yacht Races.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... LCD technology is making news this month with larger screens, more innovation and different kinds of models. Now, Densitron Technologies (10430-2 Pioneer Blvd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; Contact: David McQuiggan; Tel: 562/941-5000, Fax:...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: Higher Resolution Computer Images.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Electrograph Systems (175 Commerce Dr., Hauppauge, NY 11788; Contact: Carl Mandelbaum; Tel: 800/658-2819 or 800/776-5768, Fax: 631/436-5227, Website: www.electrograph.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co., Inc. (Website:...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Three Patents for OLEDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Website: www.universaldisplay.com) says that its research partners, Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC), have received three patents for organic...

Planar Investigating Organic LEDs.(Government Activity)
September 1, 2000... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 NW Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493, Website: www.planar.com) is a prime contractor and system integrator of a team investigating active matrix organic LEDs, using N and P-type...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT: PixTech Delivers FEDs to the Army.(Product Information)
September 1, 2000... PixTech, Inc. (3350 Scoot Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Contact: Dianne Richter; Tel: 208/333-7500 or Tel: 408/986-8868, Fax: 408/986-9896, Website: www.pixtrech.com) announced the delivery of two 12.1-in. full color field emission displays...

MICRODISPLAYS: Three-Five Develops Microdisplays ICs.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Contact: Elizabeth Sharp, VP Corporate Relations; Tel: 602/389-8837 or 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801, Website: www.threefive.com) says it has completed a set of application specific...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Inputs from Computer, Video.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... InFocus Corp. (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Contact: Judy Piercy; Tel: 858/638-2854, Scott Hildebrandt, Tel: 503/685-8609 or Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887, Website: www.infocus.com) introduced Proxima branded...

Quality Images, Even in Sunlight.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Light Management Group, Inc. (LMGR, 3060 Mainway Dr., Burlington, Ontario L7M 1A 3; Contact: Glen Watson; Tel: 877/207-5647 or Tel: 877/207-5647, Website: www.lmgr.net) successfully demonstrated its radically innovative image projection and...

HEADMOUNTED/HANDHELD Handheld Internet Access Devices.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... ViewSonic (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869- 7976, Fax: 909/468-1202, Website: www.viewsonic.com), an established flat panel display monitor maker, got into the market for handheld Internet-access devices. Ten versions of the...

MATERIALS: DuPont Invests in Allen Technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... DuPont iTechnologies (Box 80352, Wilmington, DE 19880; Tel: 302/695-1258, Fax: 302/695-4635) announced that DuPont has invested in Alien Technology Corp., a display startup business based in Morgan Hill, California. Terms of the investment were...

Zinc Telluride Emits Green Light.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Japan Energy Corp. created a pure green light emitting diode as a result of the company's growth of large, single crystal zinc telluride (ZnTe) and its equally successful development of a p-n junction, according to O plus E magazine. Since it...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Internet Appliances Integrate CRTs, LCDs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Contact: John Smith, Senior Manager of Product Marketing; Tel: 909/444-8851 or Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202, Website: www.viewsonic.com) unveiled more than 10 state-of-the-art...

Low Temperature Poly-Si Display.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... L.G. Philips LCD (150 E. Brokaw Rd., San Jose, CA 95112; Tel: 408/350-7730) is taking a step toward perfecting mobile displays with its proprietary low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) process technology for TFT-LCDs. This technology creates...

PROCESS NEWS: Intevac Gets Order for Five Systems.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Intevac, Inc. (3550 Bassett St., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/496-2214, Fax: 408/988-8145) received a purchase order for five D-STAR flat panel display manufacturing systems. Daniel Gentry, the company's VP of sales and marketing says they...

INDUSTRY NEWS: nView Finances New Business Plans.(Company Financial Information)
September 1, 2000... A plan to issue $1,477,000 in convertible notes to a group of private investors was announced by nView Corp. (Newport News, VA; Tel: 757/873-1354, Website: www.nview.com). The issuance of the notes incorporates bridge loans previously received...

Electrograph Systems Opens Midwest Office.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Electrograph Systems, Inc. (Hauppauge, NY; Website: www.electrograph.com) a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co., Inc. and the largest distributor of plasma display monitors in the U.S., says it is establishing a new sales office...

Samsung Opens LCD Production Line.(Company Operations)
September 1, 2000... Samsung has opened a new production line for liquid crystal flat panel displays at its manufacturing plant in Korea that is partly financed by Apple Computer. According to report by Macworld UK, the new line can produce nine 14.1-in., six...

Luxell Gets into Japanese Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Luxell Technologies (Toronto, Ontario; Contact: Brian Kennedy; Tel:905/206-1708) says it has received its first contract from Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, to supply displays and keyboards for Mitsubishi Precision's new...

Glass Manufacturing Agreement Signed.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China) a wholly owned subsidiary of Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ) signed a strategic agreement with Hebei Jiya Electronics Co., Ltd. (Jiya), a China- based manufacturer of liquid crystal display glass....

Briefly Noted:.(News Briefs)
September 1, 2000... Preview Technology, Inc. (City of Industry, CA) introduced a 17- in. flat face CRT monitor with an estimated street price under $300. Called the Model DX-797, the monitor provides a "comprehensive array of high quality viewing features, price...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
September 1, 2000... October 11-13, 2000, Commercializing OLEDs, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA. Contact: Deborah Crommett; Tel: 207/781- 9800. November 6-8, 2000, Science and Technology of Display Phosphors, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA....