Cutting-Edge Display Technology to be Showcased at Display Week 2007 Exhibition.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it," stated the American computer scientist Alan Kay (person) Alan Kay - The leader of the Software Concepts Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre which developed Smalltalk, the pioneering object-oriented programming system, in 1972. in 1971. When it comes to information displays, the place to see how the future is being invented is the Exhibition Hall at Display Week 2007: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition, which is taking place this month at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It borders Orange County on its southeast edge. It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. , USA. The Display Week Exhibition is the nursery of the industry, where leading global information-display companies proudly unveil the most cutting-edge developments in display technology for the first time. More display innovations are introduced year after year at Display Week than at any other display show in the world. Display Week is where the world got its first look at the technologies that now shape the display world, such as HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates , LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. , Plasma, DLP (Digital Light Processing) A data projection technology from TI that produces clear, readable images on screens in lit rooms. DLP is used in all types of projection devices, from data projectors that weigh only a few pounds to large rear-projection TVs to electronic , LED, OLED (Organic Light Emitting Device, Organic Light Emitting Diode) A thin film light-emitting technology that is expected to compete with LCD and plasma TVs as well as LCD monitors and readouts. , and FED, to name a few. For 2007, advances in flexible displays and e-paper, as well as in OLED and FED TVs, are expected to be among the hot topics emanating from the Exhibit Hall. In 2007, the exhibition will feature nearly 300 exhibiting companies in approximately 58,000 square feet of exhibition space. Whether you like your displays big, small or anything in between, the only place to see the most innovative display products in the world is at Display Week 2007 Exhibition, which opens on May 22 and runs through May 24 as part of the larger Display Week event. The hours of the exhibition are as follows:
Tuesday, May 22: 10:30 am - 6:30 pm
Wednesday, May 23: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, May 24: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Included among the exhibitors at Display Week 2007 are 48 companies that will be exhibiting at Display Week for the first time or will be returning after not exhibiting at Display Week for the past several years. These companies, which cover just about every aspect of the display industry, hail from 10 different countries and represent the growing worldwide interest in the display industry. Overall, Display Week 2007 exhibitors hail from 16 countries. For the fourth consecutive year, the Display Week Exhibition will host the German Pavilion, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economy and organized by the German Flat Panel Display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time Forum (DFF DFF Département Fédéral des Finances (Switzerland) DFF D Flip-Flop DFF Domo - Farm Frites (Tour De France cycling sponsor) DFF Descriptive Flexfield (Oracle) ). In 2007, 24 companies from the German flat-panel-display (FPD (1) (Flat Panel Display) See LCD, plasma display, EL display, FED and flat panel display. (2) (Field Programmable Device) An umbrella term for all chips that can be programmed by the customer including SPLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs. See PLD. ) industry will be represented at the German Pavilion. In addition, some 33 companies will take part in the Exhibitors' Forum from Tuesday, May 22 through Thursday, May 24. Participating companies will deliver 15-minute presentations on their products, offering greater detail than might be available on the exhibition floor. About Display Week Display Week 2007: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition will take place Sun., May 20 through Fri., May 25 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, USA. It is the foremost international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers, marketers and users in the field of electronic-information displays. For more information, visit www.sid2007.org. About SID The Society for Information Display (SID) is the premier international professional society exclusively devoted to the advancement of electronic-display technology, manufacturing, and applications. Its international headquarters are located at 610 South Second Street, San Jose, CA 95112, U.S.A. Visit SID online at www.sid.org. |
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