Despite a first-quarter profit gain, the company's long-term outlook for plasma TVs is threatened by the rival LCD flat-screen technology

MotionDSP announced this week that the CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel, had provided MotionDSP with its first bit of outside funding - an investment of less than a million dollars. The CIA also committed to more than a million dollars in contracts for the firm's technology, which can take grainy or blurry video footage and make it clearer. The company is hoping the CIA deal will help his firm cash in on a burgeoning area: the sharing of images and video over cell phones.

The latest ruling in the legal battle will prevent Lumileds attempts to stop the import of Epistar's LEDs for up to 30 days.

Vendor cuts LCD monitors lines to focus on higher end, specialist display and security products.

PDP TV makers such as Matsushita and Pioneerare likely to report weak results, having lost dominance of the market for large TVs to the more popular LCD.

The higher energy efficiencies and ability to create novel lighting products provided by OLED and carbon nanotubes in particular will push the entire printed and organic lighting market up to US$5.9 billion by 2014.