Zoneboy
10-03-2008, 05:25 PM
Link (http://radio.woai.com/script2/print.php?page=/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html&article_id=4346611&feed_id=119078)
Mitsubishi today unveiled the next generation of consumer television displays, the world's first LASER powered television, during a demonstration today at Bjorn's Audio and Video on the city's north side, 1200 WOAI news reports.
The official unveiling of the first ever consumer LASER television took place at Bjorn's, because the outlet is one of the country's leading Mitsubishi dealers.
The LASER television got a sneak peek for dealers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, but today's unveiling marks the introduction of the set into dealerships for retail sale.
"The key advantage is, the color intensity is unlike anything that's ever been done before," said Stan Beil of California-based Mitsubishi USA.
"It is basically twice the color of any current display technologies."
He says the reason the color on the LASER set is deeper and richer is because unlike conventional types of video displays, including LCD, plasma, and DLP, which use a white lamp light source to illuminate chips or other micro devices, the LASERS inside the set themselves emit colored light.
"The LASER actually creates light that is directed onto a Texas Instruments chip that creates the individual pixels, but it is the LASER light that creates the colors. It is a much more simple optical path. Rather than having a whole bunch of filters to extract out colors, and reshaping them through lenses, it's a much simpler light path, so you don't get a lot of color loss."
Mitsubishi says the one color that shows up best on the new LASER sets is green.
They are far more energy efficient than any existing high definition video display.
"Our LASER view television is a third the power of an LCVD television, and a fourth the electric consumption of a plasma display.
Beil says the LASER technology has been in production for more than three years, with the largest challenge being making LASERS small enough to fit inside the television, which is about 10 inches thick. He says the display can be hung on the wall like a plasma, or placed on a table like a DLP or LCD monitor.
He says Mitsubishi today is introducing a 65 inch model, retailing for $6999. He says the company plans to come out with a 73 inch model later this year. Beil says no smaller units are planned.
Mitsubishi today unveiled the next generation of consumer television displays, the world's first LASER powered television, during a demonstration today at Bjorn's Audio and Video on the city's north side, 1200 WOAI news reports.
The official unveiling of the first ever consumer LASER television took place at Bjorn's, because the outlet is one of the country's leading Mitsubishi dealers.
The LASER television got a sneak peek for dealers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, but today's unveiling marks the introduction of the set into dealerships for retail sale.
"The key advantage is, the color intensity is unlike anything that's ever been done before," said Stan Beil of California-based Mitsubishi USA.
"It is basically twice the color of any current display technologies."
He says the reason the color on the LASER set is deeper and richer is because unlike conventional types of video displays, including LCD, plasma, and DLP, which use a white lamp light source to illuminate chips or other micro devices, the LASERS inside the set themselves emit colored light.
"The LASER actually creates light that is directed onto a Texas Instruments chip that creates the individual pixels, but it is the LASER light that creates the colors. It is a much more simple optical path. Rather than having a whole bunch of filters to extract out colors, and reshaping them through lenses, it's a much simpler light path, so you don't get a lot of color loss."
Mitsubishi says the one color that shows up best on the new LASER sets is green.
They are far more energy efficient than any existing high definition video display.
"Our LASER view television is a third the power of an LCVD television, and a fourth the electric consumption of a plasma display.
Beil says the LASER technology has been in production for more than three years, with the largest challenge being making LASERS small enough to fit inside the television, which is about 10 inches thick. He says the display can be hung on the wall like a plasma, or placed on a table like a DLP or LCD monitor.
He says Mitsubishi today is introducing a 65 inch model, retailing for $6999. He says the company plans to come out with a 73 inch model later this year. Beil says no smaller units are planned.