Display Development News articles from September 2002

Display Development News archives from September 2002

MARKET ANALYSIS: CRT Alive and Well in Military Market.
September 1, 2002... Video Display Corp. (1868 Tucker Industrial Rd., Tucker, GA 30084; Tel: 770/938-2080, Fax: 770/493-3903) says that its XKD Corp. subsidiary on Morgan Hills, California, had received a contract award from the Boeing Company for engineering and...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: 19-in. Panel has 500:1 Contrast Ratio.(Hitachi America CML 190B)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Designed to provide superior performance for business, CAD/CAM, imaging, gaming and home users, a new 19-in. LCD from Hitachi America, Ltd. (200 Lowder Brook Dr., Westwood, MA 02090; Tel: 781/461-8300) has been added to the company's line of...

Sharp Wins "Kick Ass" Award.
September 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., says that its groundbreaking LL-T1820 LCD display was awarded the prestigious "Kick Ass Product"...

View Two Pages, Side-By-Side.
September 1, 2002... Sony Electronics, Inc. (San Diego, CA, Tel: 858/942-2905) says it has raised the productivity bar one more notch with its first 23- in. wide aspect ratio SDM-P232 and thin-bezel 18-in. SDM-P82 flat panel displays from its new PREMIERPRO series...

PLASMA PANELS: TVs for Home Theater Market.(Sony KE-42X and KE-50X plasma display)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Sony Corp. (Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656, Tel: 201/369- 3467),expanding on its success with the TS1 line of Plasma WEGA televisions, introduced the new XBR series widescreen, high- resolution flat panel TVs with advanced picture technology...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: Transportable Display Lives Outdoors.
September 1, 2002... Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Systems (4505 Newport Place, Lawrenceville, GA 30043; Tel: 678/376-2850) has sold 18 of its amber LED transportable modules to Information and Display Systems, Inc. (IDS) of Jacksonville, Florida. This marks...

DuPont, RiTdisplays Open in Taiwan.
September 1, 2002... DuPont Displays (14 T. W. Alexander Ave., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; Tel: 919/248-5031), a division of DuPont Electronic and Communications Technologies, and RiTdisplays (Hsinchu, Taiwan), a spin-off of Ritek, Inc., held a ribbon-cutting...

More Activity in Stadium Displays.
September 1, 2002... Large-scale stadium displays are on the increase as the technology gets better. Daktronics (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 888/325-8766) announced a contract to design and manufacture electronic scoreboards and displays for the new...

4.3-Trillion Color Video Processing.(Daktronics ProStar and ProStar DS)
September 1, 2002... Daktronics also announced the upgrade of its ProStar and ProStar DS product lines from 68.7-billion color to 4.3 trillion color video processing. This new structure surpasses industry standards by offering 19 bits of video processing...

Joint Program to Optimize Electronics.
September 1, 2002... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Madingley Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, England, Tel +44-(0)-1223723-555), the leading researcher, commercial developer and owner of fundamental intellectual property for light emitting polymer (LEP) technology, and...

MICRODISPLAYS Three-Five Adds Partner.
September 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) signed an agreement with Accupix, an optics and electronics design firm, to establish Accupix as an authorized Three-Five development partner for...

Development Kit for 720p HDTV.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Three-Five also announced the availability of a new development kit targeted for 720p resolution, the current high-definition television broadcast standard. Based on Three-Five's 1280 by 768 resolution liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS)...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Portable Projectors for Mobile Business.(Toshiba TLP-700U, 701U, 500U and 501U)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA; Tel: 949/583-3000) announced a new projector series which features Wi-Fi capabilities and an integrated document camera. Also included in this announcement was a 2.4 lb....

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS: Microvision, Antelope Co-Market Display.
September 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415-6847, Fax: 425/415-6600), a leader in light scanning technologies for personal displays and imaging solutions, announced it has signed a co-marketing agreement with...

Nomad Will Back Up Instrument System.
September 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. also signed an agreement with Liberty Aerospace of Montrose, Colorado, to resell the Nomad Personal Display System. Liberty Aerospace is an emerging leader in the design and manufacture of two seat general aviation aircraft....

eMagin's OLED will be in Wearable System.
September 1, 2002... eMagin Corp. (1580 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) says that Liteye Systems (Denver, CO) has placed an order for 3,000 high resolution organic light emitting diode (OLED) full color microdisplays for...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: LED-Based System for Color Matching.
September 1, 2002... Sarnoff Corp. (CN 5300, Princeton, NJ 08543; Tel: 609/734-2193, Fax: 609/734-2992), the renowned technology developer, and Algen Design Services, the Eatontown, New Jersey-based electronics design and manufacturing company, have developed and...

INDUSTRY NEWS: UDC Completes Stock Offering.
September 1, 2002... Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ) says it completed a $6.5 million registered direct offering of 1,277,014 shares of its common stock to certain institutional investors pursuant to a Placement Agency Agreement, dated August 2, 2002,...

DOE Contracts for OLED Lighting.(Dept of Energy)
September 1, 2002... Universal Display also announced that it received two contracts from the Department of Energy regarding the use of OLED technologies in the facilitation of general lighting, particularly white lighting. The company was awarded two $100,000 SBIR...

eMagin 2nd Quarter Emphasizes Products.
September 1, 2002... eMagin Corp. (Hopewell Junction, NY), a leading developer of active matrix OLED microdisplay technology, reported unaudited results of operations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2002. Revenues for the second quarter of 2002 were $0.3...

Microvision Reports 167% Revenue Gain.
September 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA), a maker of light scanning technologies for MEMS-type displays, reported revenue of $4.7 million for second quarter, 2002, the highest quarterly revenue in company history, and a loss per share of $0.49, a 22%...

Agreement for Custom Drivers.
September 1, 2002... Cambridge Display (Cambridge, U.K.) and GDesign Technology announced a technology transfer agreement designed to advance the commercialization of light emitting polymer (LEP) displays. Under the terms of the agreement, CDT will convey...

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY STOCK WATCH.
September 1, 2002... Only six of our 16 stocks made it into the plus column for the month of August. This was another month where the market looked as if it were on a roller coaster, with wide share price swings up and down. This year continues to be particularly...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2002... October 1-4, 2002. Eurodisplay 2002, The 22nd Int'l Display Research Conference, Acropolis Center, Nice, France. Website: www.eurodisplay-2002.org. October 11, 2002. SID/MAC OLED Research & Technology Conference, Princeton, NJ. Tel:...