The Maxfield Movie supports MP3, WMA, OGG, JPG, AVI and MP4 media formats. The OLED screen has 260,000 colors. Features of the Maxfield movie include FM-Tuner, USB 2.0, SRS, WOW, photo viewer, alarm, timer based recording, sleep function and 15 hour battery life.
This new panel only uses white OLED devices and implements colors by turning on and off each device and color filter, simplifying the process and reducing production cost compared to conventional OLED panels. It adopts the patented three wave-length white OLED device technology. The luminous efficiency of the new panel is improved up to 16cd/A compared to 12cd/A of other products. Efficiency can be enhanced up to 30cd/A when phosphorescent materials are used. The white OLED panel can reduce required backlight units in LCD panels as well as the thickness of LCDs down to 1mm.
An interesting Inquirer article, discussing the differences between OLEDs, LCDs and Plasma displays.
"In general, OLEDs deliver brighter images, higher contrast ratios, wider viewing angles and, without the need for a backlight, require less power to run. This makes them ideal for phones, notebooks etc. But we are here to talk about big screens that will be plugged in so forget power savings. Even better, OLEDs will allow for even thinner screens - around three centimetres - and are cheaper to produce than LCDs because they use less materials and the polymers can be "printed" onto plastic or glass sheets using a process similar to inkjet printing. Theoretically, they will be cheaper to produce and so should be cheaper to buy."
Vitex Systems today announced it has received a major order from a leading Korean OLED display manufacturer. The order is for Vitex's Guardian(TM) thin-film encapsulation system, which is slated for shipment this August.
According to Dr. Malcolm J. Thompson, CEO of Vitex, this order is the culmination of an extensive two-year R&D effort with this customer. "This order takes our relationship one step further as we work with this customer to integrate thin-film encapsulation in-situ with OLED device fabrication-truly disrupting the industry's current manufacturing norm. We are extremely pleased to have reached this pinnacle of success with this major OLED player as it continues to underscore the growing global confidence surrounding Vitex in delivering the industry's most effective solution for the manufacture of oled displays.
Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. has developed a new OLED manufacturing method that allows three times higher yields by utilizing a photocatalyst unlike the conventional method of coating with a liquid solvent, and plans to start production in 2007 or 2008.
The prototype OLED uses 2.4-inch high molecular light emission materials. Although it comes in the passive matrix structure, it is possible to apply it to the active matrix type. Dai Nippon Printing is planning to focus on the small size panel market in the initial stage of entry.
Universal Display Corporation today announced the development of the world's first high-resolution, active-matrix, transparent OLED (AM-TOLED) display using the Company's PHOLED phosphorescent OLED and TOLED® transparent oled technologies along with amorphous silicon (a-Si) backplane technology developed by Professor Jin Jang at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea.
The development of this high-resolution transparent OLED display is a step toward putting thin, low power, full-motion video displays that provide transparency when turned off into a variety of applications where preserving partial visibility or bi-directionality is important. These include architectural vision glass, entertainment, medical and industrial products, helmet shields for military, Homeland Security, fire and rescue applications, and other applications as yet unimagined.
NTERA demonstrates the affordability, speed, and ease of mass-producing NanoChromics displays by enabling an LCD technology pioneer in Taipei, Taiwan to become production-ready for NanoChromics displays for under a million dollars in less than six months.
NTERA today announced that it has successfully transformed an existing LCD facility in Taipei, Taiwan, into a production-ready NanoChromics display factory. NanoChromics technology combines superb optical performance and ink-on-paper readability with low power consumption, and overcomes the production environment and cost challenges posed by existing LCD, OLED and other display technologies.
Cambridge Display Technology and Sumitomo Chemical have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to form a new joint venture company to develop and supply advanced polymer OLED materials and formulated inks for use in commercial P-OLED display and lighting applications.
The new company, to be based in Tokyo, Japan, will be owned equally by the two parent companies, and will have the largest concentration of PLED material development expertise and intellectual property (IP) in the OLED industry.
OLED display manufacturer Orion Electric has divided its CRT and OLED departments into two. The new company, Orion OLED, will have former CEO of Daewoo Electronics Service You Jae-hwal as its new chief executive, while Orion Electric will take in Kim Ju-man, formerly from Samsung Precision, to be its CEO.
Orion OLED has a total investment of Krw1 billion ($0.9 million) and will be the leading manufacturer of all of Orion's affiliated companies, acquiring 90 percent stake of Orion Electric.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) announces the achievement of another important milestone with the development of blue polymer OLED emitting devices with 100,000 hours lifetime* from an initial luminance of 100 cd/m2.
This latest announcement is one of a series which CDT has made to enable the industry to chart its progress on this key parameter. Figures of 30,000, 70,000 and 80,000 hours (all from 100 cd/m2) were published in May, October and December 2004.
