Nissei Sangyo America Ltd of Westwood, Massachusetts, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, will be branding its SuperScan computer displays with Santa Clara, California-based RasterOps-Truevision Inc’s name under a strategic licensing agreement between the two, but no financial details were revealed. Nissei Sangyo will provide manufacturing, distribution and marketing support for the RasterOps-branded display products in the Macintosh market. RasterOps says the deal confirms its position as a premiere supplier of Macintosh graphic display products and provides the Hitachi SuperScan line with a well-established brand identity and direct access to a larger group of Macintosh buyers. RasterOps does not make any display screens itself; intead it simply buys the things in OEM and sticks its name on them. Nissei Sangyo has been one of its suppliers but it will not name any other suppliers. Its main field is in video capture technology and video graphics accelerators, which it sells as add-on pr oducts, and rather than integrating boards into terminals it buys then in OEM. Nissei Sangyo is planning to offer 17, 20 and 21 RasterOps-branded displays geared for Macintosh-based desktop presentation, graphic design, digital imaging and prepress applications. The microp rocessor-controlled SuperScan displays feature flat-square-fronted cathode ray tubes and anti-reflective coatings. In addition, the displays feature RGB colour control, white-point selection, trapezoid, rotation and pin-cushion for improved graphics performance.
