Plasma replacement?

[bigboxes]

Anyone else heard of this or can confirm from a better source? Not a ton of details and it is a homer site.

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[krotchy]

As I understand it, and someone might prove me wrong, but I heard these TVs are in fact an LCD, that uses Lasers for its backlight. Similar to how the LED DLP's have a larger color space than the Lamp DLP's, this is a series of 3 lasers (R, G and B) distributed accross the screen for even color. The advantage is it is much more efficient color wise, and has a larger color space.

It will be a promising technology, but their claim that it will cost half of what plasma's do I dont buy. If it is better, and cheaper to make, they will still charge more for it, because they can, and it is still the better product.

 

[JackBurton]

Very nice. If it actually turns out better than plasma, it will be king of HDTVs....well unless you are going to go crazy screen size, then a project will still dominate.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: krotchy
As I understand it, and someone might prove me wrong, but I heard these TVs are in fact an LCD, that uses Lasers for its backlight. Similar to how the LED DLP's have a larger color space than the Lamp DLP's, this is a series of 3 lasers (R, G and B) distributed accross the screen for even color. The advantage is it is much more efficient color wise, and has a larger color space.

It will be a promising technology, but their claim that it will cost half of what plasma's do I dont buy. If it is better, and cheaper to make, they will still charge more for it, because they can, and it is still the better product.

Maybe they mean, it will cost them half of what plasma's cost. For us it would mean slightly less than a plasma but larger profits for them.