On February 15, 2008, Hitachi and Matsushita Electric Industrial announced an alliance reached on December 25, 2007 by Hitachi, Matsushita, and Canon. Under the terms of this agreement, Matsushita will acquire a 24.9% stake in Hitachi Displays, which is a wholly owned Hitachi subsidiary that makes small/medium LCD panels, from Hitachi by March 31, 2008. [...]
On February 15, 2008, IPS Alpha Technology announced plans to construct a Gen. 8 TFT LCD plant in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. IPS Alpha currently has a Gen. 6 LCD plant running. As the name suggests, IPS Alpha makes use of In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology that was originally developed by Hitachi, who is part [...]
On February 13, 2008, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it would invest almost $21 million in 13 projects to advance solid-state lighting (SSL). The DOE realizes that lighting system efficiency can be doubled and carbon footprint reduced by using SSL technology instead of incandescent and fluorescent technologies. SSL uses a semiconductor that [...]
On February 6, 2008, Corning announced that its BOD has approved a US$453 million investment toward expanding its LCD glass substrate manufacturing capacity in Taichung, Taiwan. The Taichung glass facility currently manufactures Gen. 5 glass and larger substrates, including Gen. 8, using the company’s Eagle XG glass, an environmentally friendly glass that does not have [...]
On February 12, LG.Philips LCD (LPL) announced that it will change its name to just LG Display (LGD). Of course, its shareholders will need to approve the name change at the end of this month. As you can see the name Philips will be gone and that is due to a significant reduction of its [...]
On February 8, 2008, during its annual investor meeting in New York, Corning introduced a new type of glass geared for touch display applications. The new type of glass is called Gorilla and can withstand daily use and abuse without being scratched. The glass is fusion-formed and does not require any polishing. The Gorilla glass [...]
During SID 2007, I was given a demonstration of Explay’s oio, a laser & LED-based hybrid nano-projector. The picture quality was surprisingly good despite being generated from a projector the size of a deck of cards. Engadget just posted a blog stating that Explay’s oio Companion will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress that will be held [...]
Reported by DigiTimes, Lite-On Technology’s LCD monitor OEM production base located in Dongguan, Southern China suffered a fire on February 3. The legal name of the production facility is Titanic Capital Services, a Lite-On Group affiliate. According to the report, there are 19 LCD monitor production lines and 15 were affected by the fire. Lite-On [...]
Eizo FlexScan SX3031W
Size: 29.8″ (76cm)
Pixel Format: 2560 x 1600
Brightness: 260 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio: 900:1
Response Time: 12ms (typical on/off), 6ms (gray-to-gray, GTG)
Viewing Angle: 178/178 (@ CR >10:1)
Color Gamut: 100% NTSC, 97% Adobe RGB
Color: 8-bit (16 million), 12-bit lookup table (68 billion)
Input: DVI-D (1 dual link, 1 single link), USB (2)
The Eizo FlexScan SX3031W’s most prominent feature, besides [...]
According to iFixit’s teardown of the MacBook Air, some juicy information has been revealed regarding the LCD:
Display assembly weight: 465g (34% less than on the MacBook)
LCD panel thickness: 3mm, thanks to the LED lightsource.
Inverter board: None needed due to the use of DC-powered LEDs.
Cable: Just one that provides both data and power to the display.
Apple [...]
