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Table of Contents

2 President's Messag

Changes and Opportunities at SID 

 - Tony Lowe 

4 The Display Continuum

Due Diligence ... 

 - Aris Silzars 

6 European Views
New Display Technologies and the Venerable CRT

 - Harm Tolner

8 Calendar of Upcoming Display-Related Meetings

10 Why Do PDPs Cost So Much?

The best plasma displays look beautiful, but roll-out plans have been cut back because costs and prices are too high for consumer applications. Why are the manufacturing costs so high - and what is the industry doing about  it?

 - Kyung Y. Park

14 The New Monitor Market
National Semiconductor's forthcoming announcement, slated for late summe1; of the first production LVDS chipset for SXGA-and-higher FPD monitors promises to open a market with exceptional growth potential over the next 5 years.

 - Mitchell Abbey

18 What's Behind Good Display Measurements?

If our measurements can't be trusted, we can't know for sure which design changes or control adjustments are really making things better.

 - Edward F Kelley

24 Pioneering the Right Technology at the Right Time

Identifying the market opportunity for a truly portable LCD projectowas easy; quickly developing the technology to exploit that opportunity was the achievement that put Lightware on the map.

 - Paul White

28 Riding Moore to Market ... in 3-D
A young company is combining an innovative technology with big-time alliances and its faith in Moore's law to produce an affordablautostereoscopic projection display

 - Peter Canepa 

34 SID News

40 Sustaining Member

40 Index to Advertisers