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davo

Full Audioholic
It appears the technology for laser tv's is definitly progressing.


"The Laser TV is brighter – there’s no fundamental limit to screen size like there is with plasma or LCD - the screen is just a piece of glass rather than a complex, multilayer structure than suffers of imperfections when you exceed about 40" diagonal screen size in a plasma or LCD. There is simply much more light from a laser, so you could turn up the plasma all you like and it will still not be as bright.

I think the people who haven't seen the Laser TV are missing the point. If you were at the launch most of these questions were asked & answered. The laser doesn't make the TV any higher resolution, it’s main benefit are that it delivers twice as much colour as a plasma or LCD TV. The Laser TV gives you almost the full color spectrum that you see in real life, and the contrast in things like fleshtones, deep blues & reds, and also rich yellows really jump out at you because you've never seen them before on a TV. That's why it looks better and brighter than plasma or LCD. It’s twice the colour that gives the real life rich content experience.

The DLP or rear projection TVs are big and clunky because the optoelectronics engine that drives them is made of discrete components including a huge high power lamp. The optical chips (used in Laser TV) simply integrate all those separate components together into a chip, and that takes out the manual labor, cost and bulk." - Larry Marshall, the co-chairman of Arasor .

It supposedly will crank out 90% of the colour spectrum opposed to the 35-45% current plasma and LCD's will do, as well as half the weight, use less power etc.. There are allegedly going to be a few of these at CES '07, so it will be interesting to see.

New technology rocks!:D
 
stratman

stratman

Audioholic Ninja
Rats!! Just when I was getting used to my plasma! Now, what excuse or explanation to give the missus.............FOR A NEW TV!!!:confused: Oh well.
 
It slices, it dices, it juliennes... I'll get info at CES if it's showing, but somebody "wake" me when a manufacturer ships flat panel units that perform as advertised and rival plasma and LCD on cost.

I call vaporware or at the very least - high performance, high budget product that remains out of mainstram pricing for quite some time. :)
 
sholling

sholling

Audioholic Ninja
It's hard to say how things will turn out but for now I've shelved plans for replacing the 47" CRT based HDTV ready projection set my late father left me. I was seriously thinking 60"XBR2 but his old set's picture is beautiful with both analog and HD and I think I'll live with it for another year until I see how this technology pans out. Mits has been taking it way too deeply in the shorts from Sony and Samsung to hold out for top dollar. If they want to reclaim their former projection TV crown and be taken seriously again they need to flood the market with these at a sub-XBR price-point and just blow away the competition. That gains them 1-2 years of simply owning the mid to high end consumer price point market. That's serious bucks with way too long term effects on the bottom line to pass up.
 
stratman

stratman

Audioholic Ninja
Clint you're right on target....if it performs as they say only Bill Gates can afford it:D Unless it's a dog then DELL will branded as theirs and hail the newest breakthrough in audio visual nirvana and sell it to a shmuck for 1900.00 (a shmuck like me who bought their Olevia w/o a warranty:eek: )
 
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