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Display Daily: The Insight View is a FREE news service that presents one significant news story each day that is carefully selected by the team of world class display experts at Insight Media. But we don't just report the story. One of our experts also provides analysis and interpretation.

The goal of Display Daily is to help readers monitor the developments in the display industry - and to understand the relevance and importance of news events in one easy-to-read page each weekday. Read these pages for a while, and you will begin to develop a sophisticated appreciation of the dynamics of the display and display-products industries.

June 20, 2008
Philips Introduces New 3D Displays - According to Plan
By Art Berman

After having announced a 52-inch 3D display earlier in the month, Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, Netherlands; www.philips.com/3dsolutions ) has now introduced a 22-inch 3D display and, without a press release or other announcement, an even smaller 8-inch picture frame sized 3D display. All 3D displays are being showcased at InfoComm 2008 and need no eyewear to see the 3D effect. These models fill in gaps in the company's 3D display product offerings and also represent parts of Philips overall 3D strategy.

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June 19, 2008
Slot-coated OLED Displays Could Hit Market in 2010 says NexTechFAS
By Ken Werner

As you may have grown tired of reading in this space, the development of material deposition processes that scale to larger substrates are one of the keys to reducing the cost of AMOLED displays. The point-source vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) process used for most current OLED displays is limited to small substrates.

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June 18, 2008
Pocket and Pico Projectors at Projection Summit
By Matt Brennesholtz

Projection Summit in Las Vegas (107 degrees in the shade) is over for another year, with record attendance of over 330 people - and we have Dian Mecca, Adrienne Hefter and others to thank for all their hard work to make it succeed. One thing they helped organize was the Pico/Pocket projector showcase. There were a half-dozen projectors in the showcase, including the new pocket projectors from Samsung and LG, each 150 lumen and each using 0.55" SVGA DLP imagers.

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June 17, 2008
Live From the Projection Summit
By Steve Sechrist

Monday was day one of Insight Media's Projection Summit, before the start of InfoComm in Las Vegas. The event covered lots of territory including updates in LED/Laser projection, one of "the hot topics" this year as it empowers the market for pico projectors. Speakers included 3M's projection systems marketing manager, Michael O'Keefe who gave us the hint of a "Q3 launch" of a cell phone "accessory projector" that goes a long way to validate this nascent market. O'Keefe said 3M sees the mobile market transitioning from "video's for me" (personal mobile displays) to "video's for we" (sharing) that taps into both business and consumer social network communities. He also tipped their development hand noting 3M's preference for LCOS imagers over other technologies calling them best suited to meet the future needs of increased display resolution in mobile applications. The company also expects to "ride the wave of innovation" in LED illumination, based on the major investments being made well beyond display illumination and projection that include commercial lighting applications.

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June 16, 2008
Will the Sirius-XM Merger Boost Mobile Video Services?
By Aldo Cugnini

The press is reporting that Kevin Martin, Chairman of the FCC, is recommending approval of the $5-billion merger between XM and Sirius. Martin has already said the Commission could reach a decision on the merger by the end of June, and Washington insiders believe that there is enough support among the commissioners to approve the merger. Martin also said that there will be conditions imposed on the approval: that 24 channels be turned over to commercial and minority programming, and that a three-year price freeze for consumers is instated. One question we have is whether the move will accelerate the deployment of mobile TV services; the satellite industry has already predicted that there will be 3 million mobile satellite-TV units by 2011.

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June 13, 2008
Something New From Canon
By John DiLoreto

Last week, Canon introduced something we haven't seen in awhile--projectors based on an entirely new imager. Canon has always made quality multimedia projectors built with some of the best optics and coatings technology in the industry. In the past couple of years, REALiS projectors have featured LCOS (Liquid Crystal On Silicon) panels from JVC. Now, for the first time, Canon has developed its own LCOS imager components and new projectors based on it.

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June 12, 2008
Small AMOLEDs Seek New Apps, Higher Yields
By Ken Werner

Step by step the OLED industry has established that active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays work, that they have a long enough lifetime for many small-display applications, and that they're manufacturable in volume. What they have not yet demonstrated is if the manufacturing processes are scalable to the extent TFT-LCD processes are. Nor have they demonstrated manufacturing with the 90-plus-percent yields common for small TFT-LCDs.

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June 11, 2008
InFocus is Back at InfoComm with Solid New Products
By Chris Chinnock

After a three-year absence, InFocus (Wilsonville, OR; www.infocus.com ) will be back at InfoComm, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas. InFocus will use this major AV conference to launch several new products and to reengage with its customer base. It has taken some time for the company to regain its footing, but the pieces now seem to be falling in place to allow the company to move forward on a very positive trajectory.

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June 10, 2008
Apple Moves to 3G iPhone
By Steve Sechrist

Technology convergence has a new benchmark: "Twice as fast. Half the price." That's how Steve Jobs characterized Apple's new 3G iPhone at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday. Even its rivals were in awe. According to senior vice president of Nokia markets, Anssi Vanjoki, the new iPhone represents "...the convergence of consumer electronics, information technology and various Internet services integrated into one platform."

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June 9, 2008
LEDs and the City
By Pete Putman

Last Thursday, Sony took over a brownstone at 632 Hudson Street in New York City and filled it with LCD HDTVs to show emphatically that they are committed to making LCD the HDTV of choice (and hopefully, Sony the brand of choice) for consumers.

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