Session Speakers
Sunday, Session 1: Lamp/LED/Laser Devices I
Christian Hoepfner
Vice President, Products
Luminus Devices, Inc.
Rapid Progress in High Brightness LEDs for Projection
Beyond many industry expectations, the brightness increase of LED light collected into small etendue projection light engines has significantly accelerated during the last 3 years. This acceleration has enabled the launch of LED projection TVs, with screen sizes up to 61". This presentation reviews the progress which has been made with LEDs for projection applications, and the products being enabled. An outlook for further brightness improvements and new products is also given.
Tony McGettigan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Luxim Corporation
New Generation LIFI Light Sources
A new high intensity light source will be discussed that implements an electrode-free design where the metal halide chemistry is energized by an RF generated electric field. This LIFI light source has been used in micro-display projection HDTV and has the benefits of long, stable lifetime, full color spectrum and fast start time. This presentation introduces the next generation of LIFI light sources that perform with increased levels of light output efficacy and more comprehensive spectra. The performance characteristics of these products are discussed and their benefits to HDTV and home theater front projectors are outlined.
Ken Li
President
Wavien, Inc.
Long-lived Arc Lamps for Projection Applications
Recent life test data shows 200W lamps can last about 10K hours to half brightness when used with Wavien's Dual Paraboloid Reflector (DPR) system. Data for lower wattage lamps means even longer lifetimes that will rival LED. Might such lamps enable projectors that could be called lamp replacement-free? The presentation will discuss the latest data, status of development and manufacturing efforts, and the implications of the DPR technology.
Sunday, Session 2: Opportunities for Multi-Projection Systems
Paul Lyon
Business Development Director, Simulation
International Manager, Display Systems
Barco Simulation Products
Opportunities in
Multi-projector Displays
The need for more and more pixels to achieve ultra-high resolution is growing in many sectors of the military, academic, and commercial user sectors. Seamlessly blending multiple, high-resolution projectors is an effective way to realize ultra-high fidelity. This presentation will describe the applications where multi-projector displays are needed, the needs and growth trends in these sectors, and the various approaches one can take to create a multi-projector image, including the strengths and weakness of these approaches.
Jon Stolzberg
Encore Productions/Event Management Team
New Vistas in
Multi-Projection Applications
Recent advances in video server technology make it possible to create multi-projector configurations that display massive pixel counts in panoramic and environmental formats. These systems use edge-blending and keystone techniques that were previously unavailable or prohibitively difficult to achieve. Utilization of these systems is now economically viable for the entertainment and commercial communications markets due to product developments and price reductions. The presentation will describe how these technologies are maturing and enabling new opportunities.
Sunday, Session 3: Hot Market Opportunities
Keith Murray
Head of the Projection System Division
SEOS Ltd.
Replacements for CRT Projectors in Simulation and Planetariums
The presentation will review of the needs of these small-volume niche markets, discuss how fixed-matrix projectors have traditionally come up short, and how recent advances are now overcoming these limitations. The talk will examine the methods to address these issues as well as the overall design considerations in developing a projector for a small volume niche market. It will detail competitive solutions, including details of the SEOS LCOS projector with 900,000:1 sequential contrast.
Lenny Lipton
Chief Technical Officer
RealD
3-D Market Opportunities - The Tide is Changing
Perceptions about 3-D display technology are changing. Stereoscopic cinema is finally being taken more seriously by the studios and talked about in more positive terms. Earlier, when stereoscopic cinema was discussed it was with derision; it was a joke, to be dismissed. This is no longer the case. This presentation will provide an update on the status of 2D and 3D digital cinema rollouts and explore the reasons for this recent change in attitude with regard to stereoscopic cinema.
Avishay Ben-Natan
Chief Technical Officer
C-nario
Future Trends in Digital Signage
The future of digital signage lies in the ability to enhance the customer/viewer experience, beyond the traditional signage technologies and platforms. To meet this market need, a number of trends are taking shape, and this presentation will cover trends such as multi-screen arrangements, engrossing visual effect platforms, and live interactive experiences.
Sanju Khatri
Principal Analyst
iSuppli Corp
Trends in Signage and Professional Displays
This presentation will forecast trends by major applications and display technology, covering this unique segment's needs and display specification requirements for signage and professional displays.
Sunday, Session 4: Wireless and Wired Connections
Dennis Crespo
Executive Vice Preisdent of Marketing and Business Development
DisplayLink
No More “Fn-F5”: A New Generation of Display Networking Technology
This presentation will highlight the projection market potential for display networking products and discuss the trends and technical challenges involved. A new level of networking enables graphics to be transmitted over standard wired and wireless interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and wireless USB, to break through connectivity limitations imposed by traditional VGA/DVI monitor interfaces. The presentation will describe technology that makes it easy to connect to projectors and send real-time, fully interactive graphics losslessly from any PC with instantaneous interactivity.
Ken Tompkins
Product Manager
VizionWare, Inc.
HDMI in ProAV – Challenges and Opportunities
With new features putting the latest HDMI Specification ahead of the display industry in many respects, HDMI is evolving rapidly. Some argue that HDMI Licensing is moving forward before basic issues have been resolved, such as how installers can lock HDMI plugs into video sources and displays. Adherents of alternative HD video interconnects, such as component and DVI, have compelling reasons to remain with their present solutions. Furthermore, Wireless HD is garnering attention as a possible solution to many of the challenges of sending full-HD video across a wire. This speech will address these HD video transmission issues and introduce ways that companies in the ProAV space are using new wired HDMI solutions to achieve mission-critical, full-bandwidth video installations.
Noam Geri
Vice President of Marketing & Business Development
Amimon, Inc.
Wireless Video - Ready for Primetime?
WHDI (Wireless High Definition Interface) is a new technology enabling wireless uncompressed HDTV with the same quality and robustness as an HDMI cable. WHDI is based on a novel video modem concept which gives higher protection to video with higher visual significance. WHDI can deliver uncompressed 1080i and 720p in a 20MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band and uncompressed 1080p using a 40MHz channel complying with FCC regulations, and has been demonstrated in ranges of 100 feet and more through walls. WHDI will be the basis of a new industry standard that will be launched in 2007, enabling a standard-based wireless connection between projectors/TVs and the various video sources such as high definition DVD players, gaming consoles, PCs, STBs. The presentation will describe the technology, uses and status.
Monday, Session 1: LED/Laser Displays I
Gred Niven
Executive Vice President, Marketing
Novalux, Inc.
Commercialization of Lasers for Display
With the showing of laser-based TVs and projectors from major brands at CES'07, the industry is now looking forward to the roll out and commercialization of lasers across multiple display products. This presentation will focus on key market segments including laser projection TV, laser cinema, laser home theater front projection, and laser backlight units for LCD TV.
Karl Guttag
Chief Technical Officer
Syndiant Inc.
Laser Illuminated Microdisplay Television
The optical properties of lasers give them a tremendous long-term advantage over LEDs for use with microdisplays as a solid state light source because lasers do more to enable smaller, less expensive microdisplays and RPTVs that rival the thinness of LCD and plasma TVs. With lasers being the best illumination source for microdisplay TVs, the next issue to consider is which of the microdisplay technologies stands to benefit the most from laser illumination.
Ed Passon
Business Development Manager
Oerlikon Optics
Roadmap to Commercialization for Laser Light Sources
This presentation will cover the road from R&D to mass production and commercialization of a new laser light source technology as well as the current focus on developing lasers to serve the MDTV and pico projector markets in the short term.
Monday, Session 2: LED/Laser Displays II
Jim Shanley
Chief Technical Officer
SCRAM Technologies, Inc.
LED/Laser Projection - A Reality Check
LED and laser-based projectors offer great promise, but don't get lost in all the marketing hype. This talk will assess the realities of the capabilities, costs and applications for these products. What can really be done today in terms of price, power, and performance? What can customers really expect? What business models will really work?
Fred Hammett
President
Murgence
Projection-based Mobile Display Devices
This presentation will cover the technologies required to make a mobile product small enough, bright enough and cost effective enough to have it universally adopted for mobile TV and video. The presentation will cover a display producing an image of 12” to 30”, over 100 actual lumen, weighing approximately 14 oz., all required to meet the above requirements. What light sources, displays, power sources, and interfaces will be utilized? What distribution channels will be utilized to reach the most effective price point? Then what is next?
Casey Stack
President
Laser Compliance
Requirements for Commercialization of Lasers for Display
Current U.S. laser laws will require a pre-approved license for every user of many future laser projectors, adding months to delivery after the sale. This presentation explains in detail the US regulatory environment, the extensive requirements of manufacturers and users, and the laws as they currently exist. It will also discuss the changes needed, the strategies, who is working on these changes, and how to get involved and support the necessary regulation changes to allow commercialization of this potentially large and highly profitable new market in the US.
Monday, Session 3: Lamp/LED/Laser Devices II
Bernd Straehler
Business Unit Manager
OSRAM DisplayOptic
New Illumination Sources Enable New Opportunities
Osram currently offers arc lamp and LED sources for projection and is working on laser sources. Each of these sources needs to be matched to an application, accessing the technology cost and performance, timing and application needs. The presentation will describe the status and trends in Osram's arc lamps, LEDs and lasers with a roadmap for analysis of best fits to opportunities.
Chris Williams
Executive Director
Ceravision Ltd.
Microwave- powered Electrodeless High Intensity Discharge Lamp System
The presentation will discuss the new Continuum ™ 2,4GHz microwave powered electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp.The system that operates at a single frequency using the revolutionary R-EFF™ Microwave interface unit, uses no mercury in the lamp, and has been designed for minimum cost and maximum reliability. The lamp system offers an unprecedented level of flexibility for system designers, and can be easily modified to suit specific applications. The lamp system is designed to work with Gallium Arsenide, Gallium Nitride, Silicon LDMOS and Magnetron microwave amplifiers, offering a variety in design choice that allows designers to choose between performance versus material cost depending on their unique requirements.
Monday, Session 4: Light Rejecting Screens
Don Hirsh
Business Development Manager
Brightview Technologies
Projection Screens for Use in Uncontrolled Lighting
Projections systems deliver the largest, lowest-cost-per-unit-area
images of any display technology. And new generations of lightweight, low-power projection systems can also be the lightest
weight-per-unit-area display technology. These attributes make
projection systems the most flexible display systems for a great many applications from consumer activities like video display, to corporate meeting rooms, to commercial applications like retail signage. But in order to get the best quality pictures from a projection system, it is critically important either use the system in a reduced illumination environment or use the projector in conjunction with a high-gain, high-contrast projection screen. Screens that perform both functions - increased image luminance and increased rejection of ambient illumination have not been technologically feasible until now.
Al Davis
CEO
Screen Innovations
Business Opportunities in the “NewFfrontier” of Ambient Lit Environments
The reduction of ASP on HD projectors over the past few years is expanding the potential market to include more consumers than ever before – both commercial and residential. The challenge for the front projection industry is in addressing the more widely varied ambient lit environments that will come with a wider market appeal of the category as a whole. Although some statistics show dedicated home theater construction at an all time high, this number is still in the single digit percentiles. New consumer friendly priced front projectors must be mated with affordable contrast enhancing screens to maximize the appeal to this new demographic of users and their viewing conditions. This presentation will cover some of the progress made and hurdles ahead of us as an industry, while also touching on the vertical market crossover potential of ambient light resistant front projection systems.
Chuan Lee
Director, Greenwood Research Laboratories
Fujifilm Manufacturning USA, Inc.
Projection Screens Good Under Ambient Lighting Conditions
This presentation will cover the technology that provides front and rear projection screens that reject ambient light and offer high intensity transmission and reflection images. The performance characteristics of the screens and the applications best suited to will also be discussed.
Monday, Session 5: Projection Manufacturning Trends
Gopal Ramachandran
Strategic Marketing Manager
Silicon Optix Inc.
Fat's Where It's At, But Thin Is Now In! -- Cost Effectively Producible Thin-chassis MD RPTVs
This presentation covers the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to manufacturing thin RPTVs. Results from recent configuration studies on thin-chassis RPTVs illuminated by either UHP lamps or solid-state lasers, with target specs of 10:1 diagonal to depth, and 10:1 diagonal to chin ratios will be presented. Discussion will include how advanced geometry processing was used in synergy with advanced optics.
Marty Zanfino
Vice President of Marketing
Microdisplay Corporation
Making MDTV Competitive Through Innovation
The presentation will show how MDTVs can remain viable and competitive today. While it is a difficult competitive landscape, innovative designs, lower cost manufacturing and better distribution models can help keep MDTV viable. The presentation will describe the risks and the steps needed to be successful.
Monday, Session 6: Market Data/Trends in Displays
Midori Takaso
Vice President
Techno Systems Research Co., Ltd.
Projection is Alive and Well
Many people think projection is in trouble because of the MDTV segment. But both the professional side and home theater are doing fine and new innovations are coming. This presentation will cover projection's ability to effectively compete with FPDs.
Matt Brennesholtz
Senior Analyst
Insight Media
Market Trends in 3D Displays
This talk will cover two existing market segments for large-screen 3D displays: data visualization and cinema plus an emerging market: consumer TV. Examples of current applications in each of these market segments will be discussed. Market size estimates and forecasts of market growth will also be given.
Bill Coggshall
President
Pacific Media Associates
Display Market Forecasts
The total large-screen display market continues to grow dramatically, both for front and rear projection and for flat panels. But some segments are growing much faster than others. This presentation will quantify the global market, and identify its sweet spots. While summarizing the demand for classic front and rear projection categories, it will focus particularly on "New Era" standalone and embedded front projection technologies used in such emerging categories as pocket projectors, game projectors, and personal projectors.
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