Tag archive: SID

It may be quite a ways from the enormous 42-inch convex DLP monitors shown at CES this year, but AU Optronics has managed to produce what it says is the world’s first convex LCD screen. Not to be confused with the first concave model AU Optronics unveiled at SID 2008 (which curves out toward the viewer), the tiny convex models curve out away from the viewer with a gentle 100mm radius. The company says that special thinning… Read More

Although manufacturers like LG are gearing up to produce larger OLED sets in the distant future, it looks like the screens may be making more progress toward getting flexible than getting bigger. Partners Universal Display Corporation and LG Display Company announced Tuesday that they would be demonstrating a flexible active-matrix OLED display at this year’s Society for Information Display (SID) exhibition. The tiny… Read More

NEC LCD Technologies has announced a new technology designed to enable LCD display manufacturers to more easily create complicated, non-rectangular display shapes. Although round and irregularly-shaped LCDs have been around for a while, the standard LCD panel is still rectangular, and most of the size and thickness reductions over the last few years have brought new focus on those rectangular panels, simply because that's the… Read More

The Gods of Gaming have been busy. John Carmack is working on a next-gen game engine, Chris Taylor is already cranking away on a new Supreme Commander, and now Sid Meier is dedicating himself to a new Civilization title. The publishing label 2K announced on Thursday that Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is officially in development by Firaxis games. Meier is most well-known for the Civilization series, which he spawned… Read More

The conferences are being held jointly at the Exhibition & Convention Center (EXCO) in Daegu, Korea, August 23-27. Samsung's new technologies include a 17″ and 21″ light-emitting diode (LED)backlights for LCD monitors, an innovative one-piece 2.32″ touch screen panel for mobile LCDs and a 46″ portrait LCD panel. To be consistent with new worldwide environmental regulations, this next-generation LED backlight… Read More

The company set up a joint venture, ST Liquid Crystal Display (ST-LCD), with Toyota Industries, at the beginning of last year and planned to see volume production of OLED panels this year. Sony said it plans to produce 300,000 2-inch OLED panels per month for its portable devices such as DSCs (digital still cameras) and PDAs. Sony introduced a 13-inch OLED panel prototype at the Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium… Read More

Continuing its pioneering role in the OLED display industry, Eastman Kodak Company is introducing new high-performance materials for the manufacture of OLED displays and demonstrating active matrixorganic light emitting diode (AM OLED) display panels in new sizes and formats, expanding the range of potential uses for the technology. Kodak will demonstrate these advances this week at the 2004 Society for Information Display (SID) conference in… Read More

The two companies intend to demonstate prototypes at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Canon and Toshiba will start selling the large-sized flat TVs in 2005, according to a report in a local Japanese newspaper. The SED display, which is based on field emission, is Canon's proprietary technology that Canon has been working on since the mid 80s. The company showed a 10-inch prototype panel at SID in 1998. At… Read More