Osram Opto Semiconductor has been contracted by Ford Motor Company to provide LED lighting solutions. Osram’s LED lighting will be used as the light source for Ford’s newly upgraded “Ice Blue” interiors. The Ice Blue interiors feature a consistent color for instrumentation, radios, climate control and switches. Ford’s 2008 Ford Focus and the 2008 Ford [...]
Heptagon is a Finland-based micro-optics specialist and has established a US subsidiary located in San Jose, CA. Heptagon manufactures miniature optics for LED lighting and the US subsidiary will be a sales, marketing and business development office. With LED there are multiple challenges including: increasing light efficiency, package reduction, function optimization and cost of ownership [...]
Nitto Denko will construct a new optical films plant in Guangming Hi-tech Park in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Nitto Denko is the market leader for polarizers that are used in the manufacture of LCDs. Currently there are only three LCD manufacturers in China that include Infovision Optronics, SVA-NEC and BOE OT. However, my guess is [...]
Philips’ Cineos 32PF9731D is the smaller version of the brilliant 37PF9731D. Trusted Reviews gives it 9/10 overall and 10/10s for both Design & Features and Image Quality. The 32PF9731D uses Philips’ Ambilight system that shines light that surrounds the TV. The light color matches the content of what you are viewing and enhances the overall [...]
The folks over at Engadget reports that Sharp’s 62″ high-resolution display sporting 4096 x 2048 was an experience “reminiscent of sitting by a window, and not by a display.” Now that sounds pretty awesome. The 62″ display has a total of 8.3 megapixels signaling the arrival of display technology that match mid- to high-end image [...]
Samsung Electronics is enjoying record sales for LCD TVs in Vietnam. Vietnam represents 5% of Samsung’s Southeast Asia region sales. Southeast Asia regional sales revenue hit $10 billion in 2006, growing from $8.7 billion in 2005. LCD TV sales in the region grew more than six fold to 250,000 in 2006. Samsung is planning to [...]
McLean Bible Church, Vienna, VA tapped Christie to install a multi-projection DLP system to enhance visual experience in the church auditorium, smaller auditorium and church lobby. In the main auditorium, there are 15 systems that were installed; four systems were installed in the Smith Center and another four were installed in meeting rooms. All of [...]
Matrox is giving notebook PC users the ability to have two external displays running with its DualHead2Go Digital Edition box that connects to the VGA port. The DualHead2Go Digital Edition can support two displays with 1920 x 1200 pixels each for a total of 3840 x 1200 pixels of digital real estate! The notebook PC’s [...]
xRez has a gigapixel image of El Capitan, Yosemite. Although I am not quite convinced that the image has that many pixels, you can zoom in quite a bit and see some really cool details. John Nack on Adobe comments that the picture has 3.8 gigapixels! After going to the main site and looking at [...]
Vidikron introduced its VL-40 and VL-46 LCD TVs sporting 1920 x 1080 pixel formats that allow for Full HD 1080p video. The VL-40 (40″) and VL-46 (46″) join Vidikron’s DView line of LCD TVs that feature the company’s Imagix video processing and IntelliWide technology that upconverts and scales video signals to fit the 16:9 1920 [...]
