Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries.
DisplaySearch, an NPD Group company, has a core team of 45 employees located in North America and Asia who produce a valued suite of FPD-related market forecasts, technology assessments, surveys, studies and analyses. The company also organizes influential events worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, DisplaySearch has regional operations in Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Kyoto, San Diego, San Jose, Seoul, Shenzhen, Taipei and Tokyo, and the company is on the web at www.displaysearch.com.
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLGB) develops and delivers products and technologies that make the entertainment experience more realistic and immersive. For more than four decades, Dolby has been at the forefront of defining high-quality audio and surround sound in cinema, broadcast, home audio systems, cars, DVDs, headphones, games, televisions, and personal computers. For more information about Dolby Laboratories or Dolby technologies, please visit www.dolby.com.
Fusion Optix’s world-class team is pioneering innovative high performance solutions, products, and advanced technologies for global optical markets, such as flat panel displays and LED lighting. Our approach to focus on leading edge optical design and fundamental materials science, as well as advanced manufacturing technologies, has resulted in a unique highly customizable product platform and system solutions that leverage this platform.
Global Lighting Technologies (GLT), Inc., Brecksville, OH, was founded in 2000 and has been a consistent innovator in LCD backlighting, providing the most efficient LED-based edge lighting technology available for today’s flat panel displays. GLT’s MicroLens™ molded light guides enable outstanding edge-lit backlighting performance, and they can reduce the high cost, thickness, and power consumption associated with traditional LED-based direct backlighting methods. GLT has thousands of employees worldwide, and over 100 patents issued or pending.With its proprietary MicroLens™ light extraction technology, 3-D optical design capabilities, localized customer support and 3 Far East production facilities, GLT is able to develop and produce the world’s most efficient display backlights.
The Managed Home business unit within HP offers a connected entertainment product portfolio that spans networked high-definition TVs, home servers and digital media receivers -- all enabling people to control how, where and when they access and enjoy their digital content. More information is available at www.hp.com/go/mediasmart.
LG Display Co., Ltd [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220] is a leading manufacturer and supplier of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, OLEDs and flexible displays. The company provides TFT-LCD panels in a wide range of sizes and specifications for use in TVs, monitors, notebook PCs, and various applications. LG Display currently operates seven fabrication facilities and five back-end assembly facilities in Korea, China and Poland. The company has a total of 22,000 employees operating in ten countries around the world. Please visit http://www.lgdisplay.com for more information.
LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances, employing more than 82,000 people working in over 110 operations including 81 subsidiaries around the world. Comprising four business units – Digital Displays, Digital Media, Mobile Communications and Digital Appliances, with 2006 global sales of U.S. $38.5 billion – LG Electronics is the world’s largest producer of CDMA handsets, air conditioners, optical storage products and DVD players. For more information, please visit www.lge.com.
Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications, including high definition TVs, video projectors, avionics displays, and lighting systems. Its patented PhlatLight® (Photonic Lattice) LED products are the brightest and most versatile solid-state light sources available today and are enabling innovative products and applications never before possible. Luminus Devices’ headquarters and primary manufacturing facilities are located in Billerica , Massachusetts , U.S.A. For more information, visit www.luminus.com and www.phlatlight.com.
Merck (www.merck4displays.com) is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company with sales of EUR 6.3 billion in 2006, a history that began in 1668, and a future shaped by 35,214 employees in 63 countries. Its success is characterized by innovations from entrepreneurial employees. Merck's operating activities come under the umbrella of Merck KGaA, in which the Merck family holds an approximately 70% interest and free shareholders own the remaining approximately 30%. In 1917 the U.S. subsidiary Merck & Co. was expropriated and has been an independent company ever since. Merck is market leader in liquid crystal materials and has local production sites in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The liquid crystal experience with Merck started more than 100 years ago. Local Expertise - Global Competence
Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a semiconductor designer and manufacturer with worldwide operations, is a leading supplier of cutting-edge system solutions for consumer electronics. As a market leader in innovative global TV system solutions, Micronas leverages its expertise into new markets emerging through the digitization of audio and video content. Micronas serves all major consumer brands worldwide, many of them in continuous partnerships seeking joint success.Visit us on the web at www.micronas.com.
NOVA Chemicals produces plastics and chemicals that are essential to everyday life. Our employees develop and manufacture materials for customers worldwide that produce consumer, industrial and packaging products. NOVA Chemicals works with a commitment to Responsible Care® to ensure effective health, safety, security and environmental stewardship. Company shares are traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges as NCX. Visit NOVA Chemical' on the Internet at www.novachemicals.com.
Syntax-Brillian Corporation (www.syntaxbrillian.com) is a leading designer, developer and distributor of LCD HDTVs, digital cameras, and microdisplay entertainment products. The company's lead products include its Olevia brand (www.olevia.com) high definition widescreen LCD televisions -- one of the fastest growing global TV brands -- and Vivitar brand (www.vivitar.com) digital still and video cameras. Syntax-Brillian has built an Asian supply chain coupled with an international manufacturing and distribution network to support worldwide retail sales channels and position the company as a market leader in consumer digital entertainment products.
Tvia, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and develops an extensive line of flexible, high quality digital display processors for digital LCD, PDP, HD, SD, and progressive-scan TVs, as well as other broadcast and consumer display products. Tvia owns and operates a leading independent TV design center, providing manufacturers with proven TV system designs, which Tvia believes allows manufacturers to produce and manufacture high quality flat-panel television at a lower cost with shortened time to market. The combination of Tvia's TrueView display processors and leading TV system designs gives Tvia's manufacturing customers an advantage for building cost-effective, high quality display solutions. More information about Tvia is available at www.tvia.org.
Uni-Pixel Display, Inc. is a development stage corporation that has developed, patented, and is working to commercialize a new flat panel color display technology it calls Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter ("TMOS"). This new technology outperforms OLED, plasma and traditional LCD technology in every measureable dimension. The company's corporate headquarters are located in The Woodland, TX. For further information, please see www.unipixel.com.
FlexTech is exclusively devoted to fostering the growth, profitability and success of the electronic display and flexible, printed electronics supply chain. Leveraging its rich history in promoting the display industry as the USDC, the FlexTech Alliance offers expanded collaboration between and among industry, academia and research organizations for advancing displays and flexible, printed electronics from R&D to commercialization. Find out more at www.flextech.org.
In Latin "Veritas et Visus" means "Truth and Vision". The organization's mission it to provide readers with pertinent,timely and affordable information about the flat-panel display industry, with the goal of bringing together news, interviews, conference summaries, tutorials, and analysis into a format that is useful to readers. Veritas et Visus offers five specialty newsletters covering 3D Displays; Touch Screens; High Resolution; Flexible Displays; and Display Standards. Veritas et Visus also publishes a quarterly newsletter for the LCD TV Association. For more information, visit www.veritasetvisus.com.
VIZIO, Inc. "Where Vision Meets Value," headquartered in Irvine, California, is America’s #1 LCD HDTV Company*. The VIZIO brand has been seen and heard on TV and radio, including NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, The Ellen Show and Live with Regis and Kelly, won numerous awards from leading publications including a #1 Ranking in the Inc. 500 for Top Companies in Computers and Electronics, Good Housekeeping's Best Big-Screens, CNET's Top 10 Holiday Gifts, PC World's Best Buy, Sound & Vision's Editors Choice, Home Theater Magazine's Rave Award, PC Magazine's Editors Choice, AVRev.com's #1 Product We Love the Best and The Perfect Vision's Products of the Year. VIZIO is bringing vision to the consumer electronics market through practical innovation. VIZIO products offer customers advanced technologies at the most affordable value. Products include the VIZIO, Maximvs and Gallevia lines of Plasma and LCD HDTVs. Many of these products can be found at BJ's Wholesale, Circuit City, Costco Wholesale, Sam's Club, Sears, Wal-Mart, and other retailers nationwide along with authorized online partners. For more information, please call 888-VIZIOCE or visit on the web at www.VIZIO.com.
Westinghouse Digital Electronics is one of the top five LCD TV manufacturers in the U.S. 2007¹. The company provides a full line of innovative LCD displays as well as other consumer electronic products that deliver the latest digital content for the ultimate entertainment experience. Westinghouse Digital's innovative and easy-to-use LCD-based line up includes a complete family of 720p and 1080p LCD HDTVs and HD 1080p monitors in a wide range of sizes and formats. HD Grade computer standard and widescreen monitors, digital photo frames and its new notebook/HDTV bundle. Westinghouse Digital is dedicated to providing consumers with stylish, feature-rich and high-quality entertainment devices that meet the needs of every household member. For more information, please visit www.westinghousedigital.com. ¹The NPD Group-Retail Tracking Service, based on unit sales, from Jan - Oct 2007.
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