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SID 2003:
Last-Minute Updates and Factoids as of 5/5/03
Come to SID
and learn how LCD makers are gearing up for low-cost LCD
television; see the latest large-screen plasma TVs and their
large-screen LCD competitors; see the new, high-quality, color
cell-phone and PDA displays; learn about the latest in on-panel
integration; see a no-glasses 3D PDA display; see the remarkable
developments in OLEDs, in sizes from cell-phone to 20 inches;
see how display electronics are slashing costs and improving
performance, and attend the new SID Display Business Conference.
SID 2003 - The
Society for Information Display's International Conference,
Symposium, and Exhibition - will be held May 18-23 at The
Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland. The Renaissance
Harborplace Hotel, on Baltimore's Inner Harbor, is the
headquarters hotel.
The Press
Rooms are Rooms 301 and 302 in the convention center.
There will be phone, fax/printer, and Internet service. The
Press Room will be open Monday through Wednesday 9:00 am - 5:00
pm, and Thursday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. Dian Mecca will be
supervising the press rooms and also taking care of you. For the
first time this year, you won't have to mix it up with the
crowds in the general registration area; all Press Registrations
will be taken care of in the Press Room. If you are
pre-registered and have received your press credentials by mail,
you can pick up your badge holder there; if you're not
pre-registered, Dian will register you.
The annual Press
Breakfast will be held Tuesday, May 20, in room Constellation
C at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore at 7:30 am, just prior to
the Keynote Session and the opening of the exhibits. We will feed
you; provide a brief overview of current display issues
by Ken Werner (Nutmeg Consultants) and display markets and
market forecasts by David Mentley (iSuppli Stanford
Resources); present a brief guide to events, product
introductions, and hot stories; and let you fire
questions at our tableful of industry experts, including
keynote speaker James Stoffel (time permitting, since we have to
get him to the keynote session earlier than the rest of us),
D.C. Wang (RiTdisplay), H. Take and Joel Pollack (Sharp Corp.),
and Tom Holzel (specialist in display product positioning).
The Press
Breakfast will conclude in time for all of us to make the short
walk to Ballrooms I and II at The Baltimore Convention Center
for the Keynote Session at 9:00 am. The keynote,
presented by James Stoffel (CTO and SVP, Eastman Kodak) is The
Strategic Role of Displays in the Info-imaging Industry; Is
There More than Meets the Eye?. Okay, we'll tell you. There is.
Stoffel will explain how displays are turning out to be critical
to the growth of the $385 billion info-imaging business.
New this year is
the SID Display Business Conference, held from 8:00 am to
5:00 pm on Monday in the Convention Center. Because
Display Week is a can't-miss event for many executives in the
display industry, the Business Conference is able to assemble an
elite group of speakers from around the world - a group that
would be hard to assemble anywhere else. For more information,
go to www.sid.org and click the Business Conference logo. Press
get in free.
The SID/Information
Display magazine Eighth Annual Display of the Year Awards (DYA)
will be presented at the SID Annual Awards Luncheon at
noon on Wednesday in the Maryland Ballroom at the Renaissance
Hotel. Senior executives from Kodak, Optiva, Sony, DuPont
Holographics, and Samsung Electronics will be there
to accept their awards. Press get in free.
Three-Five
Systems is sponsoring a press breakfast, Wednesday at 8:15
am in Press Room 302. TFS has an interesting story to
tell, and rumor has it that the company will announce the name
of its new microdisplay spin-off.
Blocks of
15-minute press conferences will be held in the Press
Room on Tuesday from 10:45 am to 11:45 pm and
on Wednesday from 9:00 to 10:15 am. Dian (the
Enforcer) Mecca will make sure the conferences run on schedule.
The presenting companies (so far) are Printable Field
Emitters Ltd., Nemoptic, Philips MDS, Axometrics, iSuppli
Stanford Resources, and Fujitsu Components America. A
full and updated schedule will be presented at the Tuesday Press
Breakfast, and will be available in the Press Room.
All hail Chi
Mei Optoelectronics for its sponsorship of the Evening
Panel Session at 8:00 pm on Tuesday in the convention
center's Ballroom I. Thanks to Chi Mei, we will go neither
thirsty nor hungry as industry leaders wage the Battle for Big
Screen Bucks: Will LCDs leave PDPs and Projectors Fighting Over
the Scraps? Civil Administrator Chuck McLaughlin will preside
over a panel consisting of Gary Feather (Sharp), Pete VanKessel
(Texas Instruments), Dave Slobodin (IFS), Larry Weber (Plasmaco/Panasonic),
Jun Souk (Samsung), and Harm Tolner (Philips).
Show management
estimates there will be about 440 exhibit booths at SID
2003; as usual the SID Show will be the largest show in North
America devoted to display technology, products, components,
electronics, manufacturing, and applications. Here's a small
taste of what you can see on the show floor.
Toshiba
America Electronic Components will be showing the first
system on glass (SOG) input display with built-in image capture,
and an extension to its line of "Kangaroo" LCD modules
for tablet PCs. The details are still embargoed - but you may
have received them directly from TAEC. The SOG display looks
more than usually interesting.
As the making of
flat-panel displays for PC monitors and even TV sets
increasingly becomes a low-margin, dog-eat-dog business, the
interest in designing and making customized performance
"industrial displays" increases. Global Display
Solutions (GDS), one of the early players in this game, will
exhibit its bright 30-inch TFT-LCD public information display, a
sunlight-readable LCD that can be viewed in all weather
conditions, and a variety of other products and support
services.
As part of its
exhibit of the OLED displays it makes with manufacturing partner
Sanyo, Kodak will be showing its EasyShare 633 digital
still camera - the first DSC to use an OLED monitor/viewfinder.
MicroOptical
Corporation, a long-time purveyor of near-the-eye monocular
displays based on LCoS microdisplays, will introduce a Binocular
Viewer OEM evaluation kit, and will deliver a poster paper
describing the technology.
Philips
will have a broad range of display technologies at its always
extensive booth. Among the attractions this year will be LCOS
and direct-view display drivers, active-matrix color LCDs for
mobile applications using amorphous and polysilicon TFTs, and
polyLED polymer OLED displays.
That leaves
another 230 or so exhibitors for you to explore on your own, but
we'll give you some additional tips and more details at the
Tuesday morning Press Breakfast. We look forward to seeing you
in Baltimore.
For SID 2003
registration and hotel information, call Mark Goldfarb,
Palisades Institute for Research Services, 411 Lafayette Street,
2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003. Phone 212/460-8090, ext. 202; fax
212/ 460-5460; e-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.
The Society for
Information Display is an international society devoted to the
advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with headquarters at 610 South 2nd Street, San
Jose, California 95112. Website www.sid.org.
