Volume 5
APRIL 2007
Number 4

Editorial
3
Vote for Your Favorite Article!
3
Are Displays Creating an Energy Crisis?
3
Case Study - Clairvoyante
7
Working the Details Pays Off
7
Company Deep Dive: Matsushita
13
Corporate Growth Matsu's New Mantra
13
Microdisplays
17
A Magneto-Optic Microdisplay for Digital Cinema?
17
DLP Cinema Marks 350% Growth, Bows 0.98-inch Chip
19
SpatiaLight's Month of Bad News
20
LED / Laser Devices
22
Brighter, Cheaper, More Efficient, LEDs Blast-Off
22
Cree Buys and Sells in China
24
Kyma to Develop GaN Wafers with Aonex Technology
24
nLight Mulls Red Lasers for Displays
25
Osram Announces New Ostar Projection Modules
26
PD-LD to Improve Key Component for Laser-Based Projection Displays
27
Illumination
28
GE / Konica Minolta to Develop OLED Lighting
28
Just Lamps Begins Diamond Lamps Program
29
Display Electronics
30
Micronas Supplies Ready-to-Manufacture TV
30
Motorola Invests in AMIMON Wireless Technology
31
NXP, Freescale Controllers Integrate LCD Drivers
32
Samsung Builds Low Power Display Driver for PDP
32
STMicro Steps up Entry into LCD Driver Market
33
Screens
34
Supernova Introduces Modular Large Venue Screens
34
Da-Lite Introduces 90-foot, Laced, Fixed Screen
35
Films, Materials and Components
35
Dai Nippon Will Maintain Spending On LCD Materials
35
Glass, My Boy, Glass!
36
Schott Opens Korean JV for Gen7 Glass Substrates
37
Sumitomo Chemical to Invest $3.3 Billion
37
LCD Backlights
38
LED Drivers Get Smarter
38
Asustek Launches Its First LED-backlit Notebook PC
39
Weak Feb Plus Oversupply Seen for CCFL in 07
40
Who Will Buy FED Technology for Backlights?
41
Flat Panel & TV Manufacturing
42
LCD Capex Will Roar Back on 2009-2011
42
Flat Panel Module Plants Grow
45
Market Intelligence
47
IFC Tops TFCinfo's Projector Brand Study
47
LCD Flat Panel Prices: Round Two
49
Have High-end Stores Run Their Course?
51
NanoMarkets Sees OLEDs at $15B by 2014
52
NPD: DLP #1 in MDTV
52
PDP Face LCD's Soaring Numbers
55
Business and Strategic
56
Apple TVs-Perfect Position Marketing
56
Is A Brand Worth More than A Company?
57
LCD Products
59
New LCD Products
59
PDP Products
62
Panasonic's New Line w/ 42-Inch Full-HD Plasma
62
MDTV Products
64
NuVision 52-inch DLP TV Uses PhatLight LED Source
64
RCA Launches Value-based DLP-MDTVs
65
Laser/LED Projection
65
A Fingertip Projector!
65
Business Projectors
66
Barco Introduces 1080p Projector For Collaborative Visualization
66
Panasonic Introduces Three-Chip DLP Projectors for Large Venues
67
Panasonic Adds Three LCD Front Projectors
68
Display Frontiers
69
Is 204M Pixels Really Enough?
69
Grand Opera, High Technology
70
Digital Cinema
71
Barco Intros Three 2K Digital Cinema Projectors at ShoWest
71
Barco To Supply 700 Digital Cinema Projectors To China
72
NEC Announces Newest Addition to DLP Cinema Family
73
Sony Expands SXRD Digital Cinema Line
74
Alternative Displays
75
UniPixel - Interesting New Display Technology
75
3D Displays
76
$50M VC Investment to RealD 3D Cinema
76
Real D Acquires ColorLink
77
Consortium to Pursue 3D TV and Med Apps
78
Dolby Bows 3D Projection at ShoWest
80
DreamWorks Animation Goes 3D
81
IDC Consortium Evangalize 3D Visualization
82
IO2 Unveils Free-Space Heliodisplay v.2.0
83
Media Factory to Produce First 3D Animation in India
84
Electronic Signage
86
Digital Signage Broadens its Definition
86
Digital Advertising Meets Real Life
87
Destination TV Expands Business
89
Focus Media Buys Chinese Ad Company
90
SeeSaw Networks Partners with Alchemy
90
Sharp Bows 46-inch Full-HD for Digital Signage
91
DTV Watch
91
Feds Release DTV Converter Spec
91
The Light at the End of the Tunnel…
93
Tivo, Amazon Downloads Direct to Viewers
94
Insight Media News
95
Vote for Your Favorite Article!
95
Insight Media and USDC Release 3D Report
95
Call for Sponsors Projection Summit 2007
98
Display Summit - China Final Agenda
100
Newsletter Editorial Matrix
102
About Projection Monthly
103
About Insight Media
103