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SID Selects Winners of 2008 Display of the Year Awards
Products Turn Up the "Cool Factor" for a Wide Range of Consumer Viewing Experiences
San Jose, Calif., May 12, 2008 — The Society for Information Display (SID), the leading global organization dedicated to the advancement of electronic-display technology, today announced the winners of its 13th annual Display of the Year Awards. This year's honorees represent exciting advances in providing consumers with a superior viewing experience, whether handheld, in the home, or on the big screen.
Commenting on this year's winners, Dick McCartney, Chair of SID's Display of the Year Awards Committee, noted, "Collectively, the 2008 award recipients have excelled at transitioning innovative products and technologies from 'hot' buzzword to 'cool' reality. The significant number of nominations we received around the world speaks to the mounting prestige associated with these accolades across the global display community. On behalf of SID, I would like to truly commend this year's award recipients' ongoing commitment to innovation and to shaping the future of today's display arena."
To qualify for consideration for a 2008 Display of the Year Award, a product had to be available for purchase during the 2007 calendar year. The six winners, two in each of three main categories, were chosen by a distinguished panel of experts who evaluated the nominees for their degree of technical innovation and commercial significance, in addition to their potential for positive social impact. As the display industry's most prestigious honor, the Display of the Year Awards will be presented to the winners during a special luncheon on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, as part of Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition, which will take place May 18-23, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif. The winning products and a brief description of each are listed below. A more comprehensive description of the award winners is included in the Display Week 2008 Show Issue of Information Display magazine.
Display Component of the Year
Gold Award: Luminus Devices PhlatLight LED Backlight Unit
Last year's Silver Award winner in this category for its PhlatLight® light-emitting diode (LED) technology, Luminus Devices this year topped the balloting with the PhlatLight backlight unit (BLU) for liquid-crystal display (LCD) TVs. Developed with Global Lighting Technology, the PhlatLight BLU integrates Luminus' PhlatLight LEDs with Microlens™ light guides from Global Lighting Technology, thus requiring only eight RGB chipsets to illuminate a large-screen LCD display. Other LED backlight units require hundreds, or even thousands of conventional LEDs to achieve adequate brightness and uniformity. By requiring fewer LEDs, the PhlatLight BLU dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of LED backlighting for large-screen TVs, enabling enhanced brightness and color uniformity over the life of the TV. Moreover, because it is edge-illuminated, the PhlatLight BLU also enables thinner LCD-TV designs.
