Volume 5
MARCH 2007
Number 3

Insight Media News 3
Multi-Projector Blending, Warping and Calibration Webinar 3
Call for Sponsors Projection Summit 2007 4
CES 2007 Best Buzz Awards 5
Best Illumination Technology 5
Best New Projector Category 6
Best OLED Display 6
Best 3D Display 7
Best LCD Display 8
Best PDP Display 8
Mine is Bigger than Yours… 9
Best MDTV 9
Best Laser Demo 10
Best DTV Standard Advancement 10
Best HD Player 10
The CES 07 Rodney Awards 11
Neurok Optics IZ3D 11
LG Electronics' Pocket Projector 11
Westinghouse 4K LCD 12
Philips 63-inch with Self-Calibration 12
Compolite's LED Backlight 13
Strategies in Light Conference 13
Strategies in Light Comes to San Jose 13
LED / Laser Devices 16
High-current LEDs Push Power and Efficiency 16
Start-up Makes High-Output Blue LED on Si Substrate 18
LED Manufacturing & Processing 19
Taiwan LED Makers See Good Sales Beyond Q1 21
BLU Maker to Begin LED Packaging 21
OSRAM and Philips Sign LED/OLED License Agreement 22
Philips Lumileds Wins Patent Ruling Against Epistar 22
Osram Expands High-Power Laser Product Lines 22
UCSB Researchers Claim Blue Laser Breakthrough 23
Wireless Connections 24
One Billion Wi-Fi Chipsets to Ship in 2012 24
802.11n Draft 1.10 Advances New Products 24
China Readies WiMAX Rival for Olympics 26
Wired Connections 27
DisplayLink Launches Wired and Wireless USB IC 27
More than 130M HDMI Devices to Ship in 2007 28
Design Wins 30
DVD Platform Features Wi-Fi Capability 30
Gennum Inks Image Processing Technology Deals 30
Silicon Optix Found in Both Blu-ray & HD-DVD Players 30
Silicon Image Licenses Sunplus' DTV technology 31
Display Electronics 31
DTV's Future from Micronas 31
Broadcom TV-on-a-chip Simplifies DTV Design 32
Silicon Image Sues Analogix for Copyright Infringement 34
Films, Materials and Components 34
Asahi and Corning: Bulls in the Display Glass Shop 34
Conductive Paste Drops Ruthenium Content by 80% 36
Korea Invests Heavily in Polarizer Production 37
Reports Target Critical Role of LCD Components 39
Samsung Claims Driver Chip Breakthrough in LCD TVs 40
The LCD Supply Chain Shifts 41
LCD Backlights 42
Boost Converters Ease Large-Panel WLED Design 42
Coretronic Books BLU Profits 43
CI Lumen Joins LED Retrofitting Club 44
For Backlighting, CCFLs Are Still the Main Stream 44
LED Backlighting Begins to Ramp 46
LED BLU Expansion: Notebooks Come First 47
Future TVs May Wed Carbon Nanotubes & LCDs 48
Flat Panel Manufacturing 49
LCD Panel Prices Keep Falling in 2H Feb 49
LCD-TV Panel Revenues Up 85% in 2006 51
LCD Plant Investment Crosses Borders in Asia 52
Taiwan and Korean Fabs Slowdown Capex 53
New Production sizes for AUO, CMO 55
A New Wrinkle In Flat Panel Displays 56
It Is Not Just About Flat Panel Displays 56
ASPs of 32- and 42-inch LCD Panels Approach Cost 58
Market Intelligence 59
Chinese TFT-LCD Leaders to Merge 59
JEITA: 77% of Japan Market Migrates to Flat TVs 60
LCDs Poised to Dominate Worldwide Growth in TVs 61
LCD-TV Prices Sharp Fall in 2006 to Ease in 2007 63
LG, Samsung SDI Profit Decline in Q4 63
Samsung, Sony Share Global TV Dominance 64
Small Flat-panel TVs Flood into Japan Homes 66
Six Stories, One Message: Plasma Lives, but… 66
Plasma Outsold All 40" and Larger Displays in 06 67
Business and Strategic 68
BOE To Sell Remaining TPV Stock 68
Dell.com Sells Other Vendors' TVs 68
Fujitsu Eyes LCD-TV Market In N America, Europe 69
Hitachi's Q3 Profit Drop Leads to Management Shuffle 69
Light Blue Optics Licenses Laser Projector Patent 70
LG.Philips LCD to Increase Component Outsourcing 70
LG.Philips Looks to Sell Stake as Losses Mount 71
New LCD-TV Plants in Slovakia and Mexico 72
Seiko Epson Profit Soars On Projector and Printer Sales 72
ShinAn SNP Acquires Merck Display Technology 73
Sony's Profit Down 33% As Game Segment Slumps 73
Syntax-Brillian Shows Improved Q2 Results 73
TCL and Sony to Source More LCMs and TVs 74
Victor Co. of China? 76
Lawsuit Threatens US LCD Sales 77
LCD-TV Products 78
New TV Products 78
PDP Products 79
Amtran Ships 60-inch Plasma TV 79
LED Walls 79
See-Through LED Modules Launch New Chevy 79
Business Projectors 80
BOXLIGHT Wins Cherry Picks Award at CES 80
Christie Expands Colors on Single-Chip DLPs 81
NEC Portable and Bright, Weighing under Four Pounds 83
Sharp Introduces 5200 Lumen DLP 83
Toshiba Adds Detachable Camera To Projector 84
Home Theater Projectors 84
Optoma Introduces 720p DLP Projector 84
MDTV 85
JVC Pro Releases 61 and 70-inch HD-ILA RPTVs 85
3D Displays 86
Philips Shows 2D/3D Switchable Display 86
A New 3D Technology Show Real Promise 88
NBA Shows All-Star Game in First Live 3D Broadcast 89
Neurok and CMO Form J-V to Produce 3D display 90
NTT Unit Develops Large Image 3-D System 91
Vis/Sim 92
CAE Taps Barco For LCOS Simulation Projectors 92
SGI Japan Adds Sony Projector To Viz Systems 93
Digital Cinema 93
Barco Silex Bows JPEG2000 Encoder 93
KDDI Develops Encoder/Decoder Set For Digital Cinemas 94
Sony Unit Converting Films for Digital Cinema Projection 94
Electronic Signage 95
Clear Channel Launches Indoor Digital Network 95
Cisco Enters Digital Signage Space 96
GDS Acquires Clearview Displays of Oregon 97
Intellimat Signs Disti Deal with TDSG 98
Out-of-Home Video Advertising Bureau Launches 98
OfficeMax Expands Digital Signage Initiative 99
Partnership Pumps up Digital Signage at Gas Pumps 100
Westinghouse Channels Efforts Toward Digital Signs 101
Sharp Unveils Electronic Pricing System 101
Investors Corner 102
Which Way Is Up On Our LCD-TV Concerns? 102
DTV Watch 103
Nielsen, DirecTV to Study TV Viewing 103
HDTV Penetration in Homes to Triple by 2011 104
TV Competition Heats Up 105
Wal-Mart Inks Deal with Six Major Studios 106
Day of Reckoning for AACS Copy Protection 107
Clock is Ticking on "Evolve or Die Prediction" 108
D-Day is Upon Us - Now Someone Tell Me What It Is 109
Newsletter Editorial Matrix 112
About Projection Monthly 113
About Insight Media 113