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Large Display Industry Snapshot February 2010

This week, we published our CES issue of Large Display Report (LDR) and this one is “Large” at a whopping 140 pages. That includes some exciting and significant progress in display imaging and illumination technologies, new components and component improvements, including LED/Laser, LCD/PDP, Key components, Plus All Things 3D and more.

The Report documents the display industry news and activities for monitor-sized and larger displays, components and finished products. LDR goes beyond the headlines, digging deep into news events -- offering “the why” behind the news with new technologies and companies you don't normally hear about in mainstream media. And, we seek to uncover new information that you won't find anywhere else. Here are some of the items of note for this month, listed by category:

LED Laser Devices and Components

This LED Supplier Looking for Boost from Projection Biz

Display Components and Mfg.

Taiwan LCD Tigers, A “Housecat” Grows Up

Backlight Units

This US Company Says New Polymer BLUs Set to Move In

Electronics

The Power Behind 3D Video Processing (Three Vendors, Three Stories)

This Chip Vendor Targets 3D STBs

Quad HD Chips Scale up 1080p

HDMI 1.4 Enabled by this Analog Chip Maker

Sensors Enable 3D Cameras – More (two stories)

LCD / PDP Products

This Top Japan TV Maker May Pull the Plug on LCD TV Biz

LG’s Strategy Told at CES (plus additional coverage, two stories)

CES Top Brand Overview (NeTVs, Wireless, Plus Analysis)

Hello Yellow (two stories)

Green Ecosystem

A Lighter Shade of “Green” at CES

Analysis: LED BLUs and Green Product Lifecycles

Going Green, But is it Fast Enough?

CES Shows Green is Core to this Vendor’s Strategy

Digital Signs Also Looking to Go Green

Touch Screens

Forget Touch, This Technology Tracks Seven Points on Each Hand

Digital Signage

Top US Vendor Breaks Price Barrier on Entry Displays

LED/Laser Projection

Are Mercury Lamps Dead?

New Tiled Rear Projection Modules Use Lasers—YES

This LED Projector Hits 1K Lumens—Plus One More (Two vendors)

Biz / Home Projectors

Ed Market Gets 3D Treatment from Top Imager Chip Supplier

Japan Vendor Bows Six New 3D Projectors—Taiwan, Three (Three Stories)

At $10K, SXRD 3D Home Projector Boasts Six Imagers (not Sony…from Korea)

Screens

Brightness Boost for 3D Screens

20X Gain from Polarizer Screen for 3D (Korean Firm)

Multi-megapixel Displays

CES Rundown from Monitors to Videowalls (plus Analysis)

Vis /Sim

New Remote Light Source Projector w/MIPS Image Processing (warp and blend)

Telepresence

What’s New at CES – Full HD Over the Wire

Market Intelligence

Putman ‘s 2010 CE Predictions

China Emerging (Post CES Thoughts)

By the Numbers in CE

2D/3D Digital Cinema

Back to 3D Films (No—Not Digital?)

Digital Install Updates

This 3D Projector Used at Sundance

3D Cinema in EU: Italian (Service) and German (Distributor) Merging

3D Industry Trends

Old Conference—New Technology at SD&A (Report and 3D Update)

Making 3D Real—It’s the Hard Part

These Vendors Counting on 3D for Turn-around

3D Content’s Third Leg of the Stool

AS-3D Displays & Applications

Now China Moving on 3D

From Autostereoscopic 3D Signs to Consumer from this US Firm

3D Pro Displays

New Compact 3D Production Monitor at sub-$5K

3D Projector for Professionals from this Japan Vendor (4K Resolution—Yes)

3DTV

CES Top Brand Overview by Vendor (10 Stories total plus Analysis)

Sony, Samsung and Panny Lead the Way with 3D (3 stories)

Here come the Chinese

Sharp, Mitsu, Tosh in the 3D Camp at CES (three stories)

3D Gaming

Stereo 3D Game Console—CES Update and Analysis (two stories)

The Processing Power Behind 3D Games (two stories)

New 3D Monitor from this Korean Vendor

New Patent “Sees 3D” Like Human Eye

AS-3D Upgrade for Mobile Game Devices

Who Missed CES-10?

3D Glasses

Premium Polarized Glasses Look Sharp (Bono-style)

New Active Shutter Models Not Just for Theaters (think home)

New “Off-Brand” Passive Glasses May Support RealD Too

ZigBee Wireless Touch 3D in These New Glasses

Four TV Makers Turn to This 3D Eyewear

Italian Firm Manages 3D Patents

3D Content Creation

3D Camcorders at CES (two stories)

The 2D-3D Shuffle—Old Films Dancing to Avatar’s Tune

Mum’s the Word on 3D-Blu-ray

3D Encode/Decode Playback

Proprietary 3D Encode Technology Deploys at CES

Swiss Firm Says Don’t Forget the Program Guide

This Encode/Decode Technology Supports Multiple Formats (plus Media Director)

Is DivX in Stealth Mode on 3D Decoder?

PC Blu-ray Software Coming (three vendors, one story)

This Company Signed Six Top Vendors to its Technology

2D + Delta Winning Fans

3D BRD Player Round-up

2D-to-3D Conversion

This Image Processor Serves as 2D-3D Conversion

RISC based ARM Gets Conversion Done

Another Way to Skin the Cat—Software Plus GPUs

3D Broadcast and Distribution

3D in Home Picks Up Steam (ten vendors, one story)

Satellite and Cable MSO’s (plus Web) Turn to 3D (four stories)

This Vendor Looks at Full-HD 3DTV Delivery (see above)

ESPN to Cut Streaming Deal with This Game Console Maker

3D Standards

3DTV Working Group Announced from this Standards Body

HDMI Says: 1.3 = 3D – Yes!

Now DisplayPort Wants In…

There's much more detail this month than can be summarized here. Suffice it to say, our goal is to help you find new technologies, partners and market opportunities -- and to avoid potential problems in your business development activities.

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