Planar Leverages Two Decades of Display Innovation to Expand into the Specialty Home Theater Market.BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Amassing a Dedicated Team of Industry Veterans, Planar A technique developed by Fairchild Instruments that creates transistor sublayers by forcing chemicals under pressure into exposed areas. Planar superseded the mesa process and was a major step toward creating the chip. Announces its Strategy to Offer Innovative and Exclusive Products to the High-End Home Theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. Channel Combining its 23-year heritage in delivering top-quality display products and unparalleled customer service with a dedicated team of projection and home theater industry veterans, Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, announced its expansion into the specialty home theater market. Accompanying this announcement is Planar's introduction of its first home theater product, the Planar Xscreen. Recently, Planar announced new strategic initiatives aimed at increasing long-term shareholder value through expanding and enhancing top-line revenue growth and profitability over time. To this end, Planar has hired a team of projection and home theater industry veterans to develop and market innovative and exclusive products to the worldwide specialty home theater channel and its customers. Planar's new Home Theater business unit is an integral part of the company's strategy to provide high-value solutions spanning multiple specialty display markets. Specifically, the company's Home Theater initiative addresses an identified opportunity to establish Planar as the top display choice of home theater industry professionals and theater enthusiasts who are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. superior performance, design and support in a comprehensive line of display products. Unlike commodity products and brands found at large retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → worldwide, Planar's specialty home theater products will be available exclusively through specialty home theater distributors and dealers worldwide, who add value with thorough industry knowledge and installation capabilities. The Planar Home Theater business unit is headed by Scott Hix, who assumes the role of vice president and general manager after being appointed Planar's vice president of business development earlier this year. Replacing Hix as Planar's VP of business development is Brad Gleeson, bringing more than 20 years of flat-panel experience to Planar's new strategic focus and the position. Rounding out the latest executive-level additions to the specialty display solution leader is Jim Davis as global head of sales for Planar's Home Theater unit, who has spent more than 20 years in the consumer electronics industry and the past five years in the specialty home theater market. "We are excited about our ability to deliver best-in-class home theater offerings based on Planar's disciplined specialty display channel approach, engineering innovation and the home theater team's preceding reputation in this industry," said Hix. "Planar's displays perform in mission-critical applications and are trusted in medical, industrial and commercial markets. Planar plans to leverage that display engineering for demanding performance to its specialty home theater products." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Hix, Planar's home theater product lines will initially include the ambient-light-rejection Planar Xscreen that greatly enhances front-projection performance in rooms with windows and light, multiple sizes of high-definition 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. flat-panel displays flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. , which will take a cue cue, n a stimulus that determines or may prompt the nature of a person's response. cue Psychology Any sensory stimulus that evokes a learned patterned response. See Conditioning. from Planar's deep history and exceptional track record in flat-panel displays, and a comprehensive line-up of high-performance home theater projectors See front-projection TV. , which are new to Planar, but not to the dedicated specialty home theater team. Planar's Home Theater products are backed by the company's industry-leading Customer First(TM) advanced exchange warranties. Hix expects to announce additional home theater products later this quarter. Planar Home Theater Introduces Planar Xscreen As evidence of the new home theater team's innovative strategic focus, Planar also announced today the initiative's first product, the Planar Xscreen, a dramatic evolution from the traditional home theater screen. Planar Xscreen is a best-in-class, front-projection screen A fabric screen that rolls up from a cylinder on a tripod base or rolls down from a cylinder attached to the ceiling. There is a wide variety of screens for front-projection TVs and data projectors. See front-projection TV and data projector. system that overcomes the most common problems associated with home cinema systems found outside of dedicated theaters by reducing reflected light from windows or lamps that degrades picture quality -- Planar Xscreen delivers exceptional large-screen cinema experiences in nearly any room in the home. Paired with a front projector Noun 1. front projector - a projector for digital input projector - an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen , the Xscreen delivers the industry's highest-quality picture in 60-inch, 70-inch, 80-inch and 100-inch diagonal viewing sizes. Furthermore, Planar Xscreen's black, high-gloss industrial frame design takes cues from sleek In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Sleek is a Magical Beast. It resembles an Ermine. It seems to have no other desire aside from biting victims and running off. plasma displays Also called "gas discharge display," a flat-screen technology that uses tiny cells lined with phosphor that are full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon and neon). Three cells make up one pixel (one cell has red phosphor, one green, one blue). , providing design enthusiasts with a solution that complements their decor. "Nearly every study in the past five years indicates that a rapidly growing number of consumers want bigger, impressive video displays in their home, but they either can't afford 60-inch or larger flat-TVs or they are disappointed with the challenges of front projection in highly lit rooms," said Tamaryn Pratt, principal, Quixel Research Home Theater Display Report. "The Planar Xscreen is a unique product that allows front projection to be used in virtually every type of room like other flat-panel TV technology, but in much larger sizes and at a price that is thousands of dollars less than other offerings." Planar Xscreen uses patented Daytime Film Technology(TM) to reject ambient Surrounding. For example, ambient temperature and humidity are atmospheric conditions that exist at the moment. See ambient lighting. light and deliver bright, high-contrast images from front projectors in any room -- regardless of light conditions. The combination of a 4mm layer of hardened glass beneath the screen provides a flat screen surface that creates an unsurpassed image experience from front projectors with twice the brightness and twice the contrast of traditional screens. The result is a higher-quality image with beautiful color, rich contrast and razor-sharp images in nearly any lighting environment. For further ease-of-installation, the Planar Xscreen Plus transforms the screen's role in a home theater solution by making it the hub for connectivity and processing of all video and audio components, which can be controlled by a single, universal remote. The Planar Xscreen Plus reduces clutter because cables from each source no longer have to run to the projector. Planar's Xscreen Plus remote is as easy to use as any traditional TV remote. "Planar has delivered a solution that makes the screen as important as the projector or sound system in the home theater," Hix said. "Until now, the only option for a dedicated home theater involved passive screens used in dedicated, dark rooms. Planar Xscreen enhances any projector's image, so that users can enjoy the theater experience day and night, in a dedicated room or in the family room." The Planar Xscreen and Planar Xscreen Plus are available now through specialty home theater partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.PlanarHomeTheater.com. About Planar Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR) is a leading provider of 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 hardware and software solutions for demanding medical, industrial and commercial applications. Hospitals, shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , banks and businesses of all sizes use Planar display technology to help connect people, information and ideas. Founded in 1983, Planar is headquartered in Oregon, USA, with offices, manufacturing partners and customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.planar.com. |
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