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Table of Contents

2 Editorial

Sony Announces New Approach to Digital CRT Monitors at PC Expo

 - Kenneth I. Werner

4 A View from the Hilltop

The Best Product at the Lowest Price ...

 - Aris Silzars

14 A Whole New Level

A vibrant industry, a startling OLED demonstration, expansion of the LCD performance envelope in several directions, the LCoS roll-out, and a record number of exhibit booths gave SID 2000 an air of champagne effervescence.

 - Ken Werner

18 Microdisplays and Manufacturing Infrastructure Mature at SID 2000

Microdisplays are now being made at the rate of hundreds of thousands per month, and every month there are more products into which they are integrated.

 - Chris Chinnock

22 Fusille, Rigatoni, and Linguine – Sometimes with Backlights

LCDs, the pasta of flat panels, are really a dizzying number of different technologies that share the same name – and the varieties continue to multiply.

 - Ken Werner

28 Manufacturing, Materials, and Components

At least 20% of the exhibitors were showing manufacturing equipment, testing equipment, materials, or components, making SID 2000 a sizable display-manufacturing show.

 - Alfred Poor

34 A Jolly Good Show

The doomsday mentality is gone as the surviving makers of CRTs and components realize they have a lot to offer a world in which flat panels do not provide the best solution to all problems.

 - Joe Hallett

36 OLEDs Dazzle at SID 2000

There was a lot of emissive technology to see at this year’s SID International Symposium, but an active-matrix OLED prototype brought forth gasps of amazement – and envy.

 - Alan Sobel

40 Expert Opinion by Ernst Lueder and Shigeo Mikoshiba

42 Evening Panel Reviews

52 SID News

53 Calendar of Display-Related Events

56 Sustaining Members