SID Selects Winners of 2008 Display of the Year Awards

Business Wire,  May 12, 2008  

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ABOUT DISPLAY WEEK 2008

The 46th SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, dubbed Display Week 2008, will take place Sunday, May 18, through Friday, May 23, 2008, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Display Week is the premier international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users in the field of electronic information displays. For more information, visit www.sid2008.org.

ABOUT SID

The Society for Information Display (SID) is the leading international professional society exclusively devoted to the advancement of electronic-display technology, manufacturing, and applications. Its international headquarters are located at 610 South Second Street, San Jose, Calif. Visit SID online at www.sid.org.

Note to editors: A quote sheet of relevant comments from several of this year's winners follows. Photos available upon request.

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DISPLAY OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS' QUOTE SHEET

LUMINUS DEVICES

"We are proud to win the 2008 Gold Award, and to have our product honored alongside such prestigious products," said John Langevin, VP sales and marketing, referring to the Apple iPhone([R]) and the Sony OLED TV, who are the other two recipients of the SID gold awards this year. "We believe the PhlatLight BLU earned this distinction because it provides a low cost and reliable solution that can finally enable RGB LED backlighting in mainstream, large screen LCD TVs."

- John Langevin, Vice President, Sales and Marketing

REALD

"We're honored to have the RealD 3D cinema system recognized by SID. We worked hard to create a simple and elegant 3D solution; the Silver Display Application of the Year Award is a great validation of our ongoing efforts to make the best 3D possible."

- Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder

SONY CORPORATION

"We are enormously pleased to receive DYA on our 'XEL-1,' the world's very first OLED television. Launching the world's first OLED television was a clear corporate mission of Sony. However, solely being the first was not our ultimate goal. Having successfully introduced 'XEL-1' which boasts astonishing thinness unparalleled image quality, now Sony is dedicating to make it even better from every technological perspective, for instance image quality, display size, durability and so on. Taking SID and the other opportunities, we will share the latest development results hoping the collective advancement of OLED technologies."

- Tetsuo Urabe, Display Device's Development Group Head

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