Best Displays

During May 18 and May 23, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, took place the international meeting of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users that work or are interested in electronic information displays and display innovations.
Display Week 2008 hosted the 2008 Display of the Year Awards where the Society for Information Display awarded 6 products that proved during 2007, to meet the highest standards of technical innovation and commercial significance.



"Collectively, the 2008 award recipients have excelled at transitioning innovative products and technologies from 'hot' buzzword to 'cool' reality,” declared Dick McCartney, Chair of SID's Display of the Year Awards Committee. “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."



The winners are:

Display Component of the Year

Gold Award: Luminus Devices PhlatLight LED Backlight Unit, which was the Silver Award winner for the previous year, and now its technology for LCD TVs requiring fewer LEDs, reduces significantly the cost and complexity of LED backlighting for large-screen TVs, enhancing brightness and color uniformity, besides enabling thinner LCD TV design thanks to the illuminated edges.

Silver Award: FUJIFILM Corp. WV-EA Film, which solves the problem of TN-mode LCDs that don’t have enough viewing-angle performance compared to other LCD modes. The Wide View film enhances the viewing-angle performance and allows users watch clear images at oblique angles, 160 degrees in both angles at 10:1. More than that, it contributes in impressive film thickness uniformity, together with the airflow control technology and a new additive that makes film thickness uniformity compatible with wide viewing-angle performance.



Display Device of the Year

Gold Award: Sony Corp. XEL-1 OLED TV, the world’s first OLED TV measuring 11 inches in diagonal and 3 mm thin, capable of delivering a high contrast, and a raspid response time and best color reproduction.

Silver Award: Samsung SDI 2.2-inch QVGA AMOLED Display, world’s thinnest 2.2-inch AMOLED model at 0.52 mm thickness, about the size of a credit card. It has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, 100& color gamut, 262K colors, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, featuring low-temperature polysilicon technology and 1,000x faster response time compared with the existent TFT LCDs.



Display Application of the Year

Gold Award: Apple Inc., iPhone, maybe the world’s most popular Smartphone with multi-touch display, accelerometer for automatic portrait/landscape switching, proximity sensor to detect turn off the display and save power when the user lifts the handset to the ear, and ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness automatically depending on the light environment.

Silver Award: RealD Stereoscopic 3D Cinema Technology that uses a single projector and an active filter to switch between 2 different types of polarization in front of the projection lens, lading to smaller and lighter weight passive glasses, and easy upgrade from stereo presentation without the need to buy a new projector.