Like watching TV? Especially that high def 1080p kind? Don’t we all. Do you want to save money too? And while you’re saving money, do you want to be green and save energy as well? It isn’t some future technology that we need to wait for or pay a lot of money for. We don’t [...]

Sharp introduced a 26″ LCD projection TV that uses about 25% of an equivalent-sized conventional CRT TV. Rear projection TVs are known to be power misers and even compared to LCD TVs or plasma TVs they consume quite a bit less. If you don’t want to make huge payments to PG&E or to your local [...]

Planar Clarity Margay II DLP Cube Specifications
Display: 50″ DLP Rear Projection 2×4
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080 (each), 3840 x 4320 (total)

Here is another beautiful example of a DLP cube that I saw at InfoComm 2008. A total of 8 DLP rear projection displays are put together in a 2×4 structure that gives you a total [...]

Planar Clarity c70SPw DLP Cube Specifications
Display: 70″ DLP Rear Projection x 4
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080

One of the coolest things about Planar’s Clarity c70SPw-based DLP cube that was showcased at InfoComm 2008 was not only the size with four 1080p displays but that there were virtually no borders among them. The high definition content goes [...]

The projection industry is in the throes of commoditization.  Today we are seeing many display engineering continue to focus on projection, even though the vast majority of projectors sold are of the low-margin variety.  When projectors began to become the mainstream back in the 1990s, a 800-lumen projector sold for $10,000.  In those salad days, [...]

Samsung demonstrated an LCD TV panel that used field emission technology to power the backlight, simply called field emission backlight (FEB). By using FEB, Samsung was able to improve the contrast ratio to 300,000:1. This is a major development. The FEB has an array of pixels that can be turned on or off depending on [...]

Samsung HL67A750
Size: 67″
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Contrast Ratio: 10,000:1
Video Processing: DNIe
Input: HDMI (3), Composite (2), S-Video
Tuner: NTSC/ATSC, Clear QAM
Dimension:
60.8 x 41.5 x 16.6″ (with stand)
60.8 x 41.5 x 15.5″ (without stand)
Weight: 86.7lbs

Samsung’s HL67A750 is a 67″ DLP rear projection TV (RPTV) that has a special light source: LED. Instead of using an Ultra [...]

Canon LCoS
Size: 0.71″
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1200
Size: 0.55″
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Pixel Format: 1400 x 1050

On May 20, 2008, Canon announced the development of its own Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) reflective LCD panel. Canon will be showcasing its LCoS panel at InfoComm 2008 that will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from [...]

Luminus Devices develops and manufactures PhlatLight® (Photonic Lattice) LED products. At SID 2008, Luminus demonstrated PhlatLight powered products and PhlatLight LED chipsets. I met up with John Langevin, VP, Sales and Marketing and Paul Fredrickson, Director of Marketing at the Sheraton.

The Luminus PhlatLight RGB LEDs were extremely bright!
At the suite, Luminus demonstrated its PhlatLight Backlight [...]

Samsung HL-T5087S
Display Technology: DLP
Light Source: RGB LEDs
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Frequency: 120Hz
Price: MSRP US$2399

Samsung’s HL-T5087S DLP rear projection TV (RPTV) is the very first to incorporate red, green and blue (RGB) LEDs as a light source. Samsung calls it the Cinema Pure LED Color Engine. Typical RPTVs use Ultra High Performance (UHP) lamps that generate [...]