On October 10, 2008, OSRAM announced its Advanced Power TopLED Plus and the company claims is the brightest colored LED in its class. The Advanced Power TopLED Plus, which I’ll refer to as just APTP, provides 15% more light for direct display backlighting. The wavelengths associated with each of the primary colored LED is as [...]
On July 17, 2008, Purdue University made this exciting announcement. By replacing traditional lighting with solid state lighting technologies such as LED, electricity consumption can be reduced by 10%. LED is also more friendly toward the environment as it does not contain mercury, a poisonous substance that make up CCFL technology that is being touted [...]
Optoma Pico Projector Specifications
Display Technology: DLP Pico Chipset
Pixel Format: 480 x 320
Color Gamut: 100% NTSC
Battery: 3.1V Lithium Ion, about 1 hour of operation
Light Source: RGB LED
Availability: Early 2009
Price: < $400
Update 2008.06.20 8:52AM PST
There we go: a much better picture of Optoma’s pico projector. According to the press release, Europe and Asia will be getting the [...]
ChinaKing, also known as CKing, has shown off what is the world’s first projector phone incorporating a LCoS-based projector with a LED light source. The projected image is 30″ in size with a pixel format of 640 x 480. Engadget is reporting that the image can be projected for up to 2 hours. Pretty impressive.
CKing’s [...]
Honlai Technology QingBar MP100 and MP101
Display Technology: 0.44″ LCoS
Pixel Format: 640 x 480 (VGA)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Color: 16.7 million
Projected Display Size: 15″ - 27″
Light Source: 5W LED
Lamp Life: >20,000 hours
Brightness: 10 - 15 ANSI Lumens
Contrast Ratio: 200:1
Input:
MP100: Mini AV, Composite, VGA
MP101: Mini AV, Composite, iPod and iPhone Connector
Dimension: 102 x 76 x 54mm (MP101)
Honlai Technology’s QingBar [...]
There were a lot of developments in displays that were showcased during SID 2008. One of the best stuff was related to OLEDs, lower power consumption, thin profiles and LED backlights generating unheard of contrast ratios. I’ve posted about just a few of them. Here they all are for your convenience:
Epson Electronic Paper Display at [...]
On May 28, 2008, Rohm confirmed that it had acquired Oki Electric Industry’s semiconductor operations and entering into the organic light emitting diode (OLED) market.
Rohm is a semiconductor company that was founded in 1958 and posted an annual revenue of JPY373 billion (US$3.6 billion) in FY2008. Rohm currently manufactures ICs, discrete semiconductors, opto-electronics, passive [...]
Samsung demonstrated an LCD TV panel that used field emission technology to power the backlight, simply called field emission backlight (FEB). By using FEB, Samsung was able to improve the contrast ratio to 300,000:1. This is a major development. The FEB has an array of pixels that can be turned on or off depending on [...]
Samsung HL67A750
Size: 67″
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Contrast Ratio: 10,000:1
Video Processing: DNIe
Input: HDMI (3), Composite (2), S-Video
Tuner: NTSC/ATSC, Clear QAM
Dimension:
60.8 x 41.5 x 16.6″ (with stand)
60.8 x 41.5 x 15.5″ (without stand)
Weight: 86.7lbs
Samsung’s HL67A750 is a 67″ DLP rear projection TV (RPTV) that has a special light source: LED. Instead of using an Ultra [...]
Luminus Devices develops and manufactures PhlatLight® (Photonic Lattice) LED products. At SID 2008, Luminus demonstrated PhlatLight powered products and PhlatLight LED chipsets. I met up with John Langevin, VP, Sales and Marketing and Paul Fredrickson, Director of Marketing at the Sheraton.
The Luminus PhlatLight RGB LEDs were extremely bright!
At the suite, Luminus demonstrated its PhlatLight Backlight [...]
