Formerly Projection Monthly with Flat Panal Coverage


Volume 6
MARCH 2008
Number 3

Microdisplays 3
3LCD is No. 1 for 19th Straight Year 3
Epson Starts WXGA Panel Production 4
Display Industry Standards 5
New Color Spec Proposed for Industry 5
LED/Laser Devices and Components 7
Avnet Marketing to Distribute Luminous LEDs 7
Modest Growth in Taiwan LED Industry in January 8
Zetex Bows New LED Driver Family 8
Display Electronic 9
ADI Debuts 12-bit Decoder with 4:4:4 Sampling 9
Screens 10
SuperNova's Curved Epic Screen Now Shipping 10
OLEDs 10
OLED-TV Production Investment Begins in Earnest 10
    Technology Challenges 11
    Competitive Threats 12
    Window for LCDs 13
    Conclusion 14
PDP Components and Manufacturing 15
Looking at Plasma through Fodel Eyes 15
Pioneer Enters Phase 2 with Sharp LCDs 16
LCD Components & Manufacturing 18
Asahi Kasei in Strategic Alliance with Luminit 18
Capacity Becomes LCD Industry's Burning Issue 19
    The Boom of 2008 20
TFT-LCD Component Growth Opinions Vary 20
    Some Film Makers Expand 21
    Corning is Bullish - Very Bullish 21
Sales of TFT-LCD Manufacturing Equipment to Surge 22
Taiwanese Panel-makers Add Capacity 22
LCDs 24
Asustek Readies 42-inch E-TV and E-DT with Linux PC 24
Mirai Launches 32- and 42-inch LCD-TVs 25
Monitors 25
Eizo Introduces ColorEdge Series LCD Monitor 25
Market Intelligence 26
Numbers in for Flat Panels in North America 26
Large LCD Panels Market Hits $71.7B in 2007 28
    The View from Quixel 28
Distributors' HDTV Inventories Piled Up in January 29
'07 PDP Shipments Surged While Income Fell, But '08 Looks Brighter 30
    The 2007 Market 30
    Market Forecast in 2008 32
    Upgrading to FHD Format 32
    Going Larger or Smaller 32
    New Technology and New Products 33
    Cost Structure 33
Plunge in Flat-Panel TV Prices Not Eternal 33
FPD Area to Grow 12% per Year through 2015 34
    Manufacturing Capacity 36
Sony Ichiban! 37
Home Theater Front Projection Revenues End 2007 on a High Note 37
Could a Front Screen Be in Your Future? 38
Business and Strategic 39
TI - Epson Settle Dispute Over Advertising 39
Sony Shifts Allegiance from Samsung to Sharp 41
LG.Philips LCD is Dead; Long Live LG Display! 42
Hitachi & Canon Display Co. Deal Update 42
Will Sony's "Win" Spill Over into Game Consoles? 43
RPTV 44
Mitsubishi's Six-Color Light Engine DLP RPTV 44
DTV Watch 46
A Super Bowl Goodbye to NTSC 46
HD-DVD Obituary Part Deux 47
The Tech Retreat's Take on HD DVD vs. Blu-ray 48
Your DTV Converter Box Coupon's in the Mail 50
Wireless Connections 51
Are USB Video Interfaces Practical? 51
Business Projectors 53
Christie Champions Inorganic LCD Projection 53
Epson Expands Powerlite Line for Education 54
What is WUXGA And Why Do We Care? 54
What to Do With 10M Pixels 55
LED/Laser Projection 56
Giotti Shows Novel LED Projector Design 56
Motorola Shows Demo of Integrated Pico Projector 58
TeraOp Displays is Now bTendo 58
LED Video Walls 60
JM Rental Buys 1000 R16 LED Panels from Lighthouse 60
Vis/Sim 61
4K 3D Cave for Jaguars 61
Barco SIM-7 projectors to be used by CAE 61
RGB Spectrum Update 62
3D Displays 65
BBC to do Live 3D Demo of Rugby Match 65
3D Event to be Held in the UK 65
A Volumetric Integral Image 3D Display 66
Actuality Shows a High-Res, Multiplexed 3D 67
Alioscopy 3D Shows Still and Video Signage 69
Binocular Imaging Projects Underway at Durham 69
    Standards 70
    Applications 70
    Algorithms 70
    Human factors 70
DDD in Hyundai 3D LCD TV 70
DDD Signs Bundling and Chip Deal with Samsung 71
Durham Proposes New Image-Quality Metric 72
Holographic Display at Digital Signage Expo 73
Omnia Tecnologmas Selling Stereo Monitor 74
Rewritable Holograms Could Appear in Mobile Phones 76
Samsung Visionary Forecasts High-Res 3D Future 77
SpectronIQ 3D Moves 3D TV Closer to the Goal 78
SeeReal Makes Progress on Its Holographic 3D Display 79
Time-Multiplexing Modules in High-Density 3D 81
Trioviz Demos New Spectral 3D Solution 82
Update on the Free Space, Laser-Plasma 3D Display 83
Digital Cinema 84
2007 Bumper Year for Christie D-Cinema 84
3D Movies: A Technology That's Time Hasn't Come? 85
Hannah Montana 3D Breaks Movie Records 87
RealD Develops Means to Double On-Screen Brightness 87
Under the Sea is next Warner-IMAX 3D film 87
3D Image Capture and Conversion 88
3DV "ZCam" Shows Gesture Based 3D Interface 88
Cosine Shows Its Latest Digital Stereo Camcorder 90
ViALUX Shows Latest z-Snapper 3D Camera 90
Digital Signage 91
C-nario Makes a Splash with Collage-Tile Display 91
C-nario Debuts New Digital Signage Software 93
MRI Bows 70-inch LCD for Outdoor Displays Pilot 93
NEC Storms Digital Signage Expo 94
    NEC's "Channel Chief" Takes Over 95
    Partner Collaboration 95
    New NEC Products 95
Planar Bows CoolSign V.4 and Big 70-inch LCD 98
Wal-Mart Gives Keynote at Digital Sign Show 99
    Today's Wal-Mart Content 100
    Network Evolution 100
    Trends Supporting Digital Signage 100
    The Formula for In-Store Media 102
    Network of the Future - Pilot Study 103
    Conclusion 103
Westinghouse Pump Top TV Hits 10% of US 103
IGEL Launches 19-inch LCD W/Thin Client 105
Insight Media News 105
Pico-Projector Market Could Reach 30 Million Units by 2012 105
Newsletter Editorial Matrix 108
About Large Display Report 109
About Insight Media 109