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Table of Contents

2 Editorial

CRTs Go Digital, and Other Display Reports from PC Expo

 - Kenneth I. Werner

4 The Display Continuum

Search and Acquire …

 - Aris Silzars

12 The Year of the Rabbit

This is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar – a congenial time in which money can be made. But the largest SID International Symposium ever held seemed more notable for its energetic diversity than for marking a year of anything in particular.

 - Ken Werner

20 The Beat Goes On

As the tempo accelerates, microdisplay developers are exhilarated by the dance – but at least one has become a wallflower.

 - Charles W. McLaughlin

24 Flat and Formidable

In the display world, it is still true that only LCDs combine the critical mass of sales volume with the critical mass of exciting technology required to dominate both the market and the imagination.

 - Ken Werner

32 Emissives Sizzle and Fizzle

No single emissive display technology is a universal solution, but a wide variety of technologies are available, are being worked on, and are being sold.

 - Alan Sobel

36 Manufacturing Materials, Equipment, and Components

The SID exhibition contains a sizeable show within a show devoted to display-manufacturing materials, components, and equipment.

 - Alfred Poor

40 The Old Dog – Some New Tricks

CRTs are a very mature, very effective technology, so we expect no more than evolutionary progress – but there were innovations to be seen at SID ’99.

 - Joe Hallett

42 SID Honors and Awards Nominations

52 Index to Advertisers

52 Sustaining Members