Norwalk, CT and Austin, TX, September 22, 2003. HDTV gurus and high-level speakers from nine big-screen TV makers have agreed to participate in the first annual HDTV Forum 2003: Enabling HDTV from the Factory to the Home, November 12-13, 2003, at the Marina Del Rey (CA) Marriott. The conference is organized by Insight Media, a market researcher on the microdisplay industry and DisplaySearch, the flat panel display market researcher.
This innovative two-day conference, co-sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), will bring together representatives from TV and cable networks, government agencies, satellite and cable providers, retailers, distributors, TV brands, TV OEMs, panel/tube/engine manufacturers and IC manufacturers. The conference will provide a unique forum for information exchange about the key topics facing the emergence of the HDTV era and provide an opportunity to interact with industry leaders.
The following TV brands have already confirmed top executives as presenters:
*Gateway - Erik Gerson - Senior Vice President, Consumer Direct
*Hitachi - Bill Whalen - Senior Product Manager
*Panasonic - Koji Kikuchi - Group General Manager
*Runco - Sam Runco - CEO
*Samsung - Jim Sanduski - Vice President of Marketing, Visual Display Products
*Sharp - Michael Amkreutz - Director, TV Display Devices
*Sony - Tim Baxter - Senior Vice President, TVs
*Thomson/RCA - Gary Hubbard - Director WW Product Planning, Microdisplay & Projection TV
*Toshiba - Scott Ramirez - Vice President, Marketing
Other companies presenting include Best Buy, Bose, Brillian Corporation, CEA, Chi Mei Optoelectronics, ClairVoyante Laboratories, Coretronic, DisplaySearch, Eastman Kodak, HDNet, Hewlett-Packard, iFire, Insight Media, Joe Kane Productions, LG.Philips LCD, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Pixelworks, Samsung SDI, Silicon Image, Silicon Monitor, Texas Instruments and USDC.
The conference fee is $995 for the two-day event, which includes a registration cocktail reception, attendance to the general session and exhibit hall on both days, and meals. Each attendee will walk away with the conference proceedings, worth tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars, in hard copy and on CD-ROM.
A special discounted hotel conference rate of $135 per night is available to conference attendees until October 21, 2003. Call the hotel to make your reservations at 310-301-3000. The Marina Del Rey Marriott is located only five miles from LAX airport, and three blocks from Venice Beach.
Insight Media (http://www.insightmedia.info) is a full-service market research company specializing in the microdisplay industry. It publishes the industry newsletters, Microdisplay Report and Projection Monthly, as well as specialized reports such as the LCOS 2003 Report, Microdisplay Forecast Report and the Near-to-Eye Report. Insight Media covers professional and consumer projection systems from the supply chain through retail distribution.
Founded in 1996, DisplaySearch is a flat panel display market research and consulting company. Because DisplaySearch surveys the whole display food chain - component suppliers, equipment manufacturers, FPD producers, OEMs, brands, distributors and retailers, it has attracted a growing number of customers. It provides valuable market forecasts, technology assessments, surveys, conferences, studies and analyses and has acquired, in just seven years, a customer base of more than 500 companies in 20 countries.
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