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Plasma TVs Out -------> Laser TVs In
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by Swan | March 24, 2008 at 08:23 am
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February heralded in the introduction of a successful new Australian company named Arasor International who have partnered with an American company by the name of Novalux.
As a result of this lucrative partnership - just when you thought it was safe to go out and buy a new television, it appears that big screen LCD and plasma TVs are possibly on their way - out.
David and I had been contemplating purchasing a big screen TV some time this year and now we're both glad we waited!
Laser TV is a form of rear-projection television that uses a mixture of red, blue and green lasers instead of traditional mercury lamps as a light source. The purity of laser light allows for images with far more color.That is the top selling point for proponents of the long-awaited technology, who note that current high-definition LCD and plasma televisions display only about 40 percent of the color that the human eye can see. Laser TVs promise to show twice as much, resulting in richer images.
Novalux in Sunnyvale, California discovered that if you add a crystal of lithium Niobate to a gallium Indium arsenide laser, that the light output would be boosted, causing the wavelength to change from infrared to red, green, or blue.
Revealing the very first Laser TV in the world today in Sydney the pitch claims that:
... it would be half the price, twice as good, and use a quarter of the electricity of conventional plasma and LCD TVs.
The new technology works thus:
The lasers shine on arrays of thousands of micromirrors that flip back and forth thousands of times a second to combine the light into new colors of different intensities, says inventor Aram Mooradian, founder of Novalux and former head of the quantum electronics group at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory.
While televisions will be the first commercial ventures which will use the 72 laser technology, mobile devices are currently being trialed using only 3 lasers each.
Aram Mooradian, founder of Novalux and the inventor of the new TVs, used to be the head of the quantum electronics group for MIT's Lincoln Laboratory.
I'll bet that Hollywood will one day be in his sites, if not already! I can only imagine what an amazing difference such technology will bring to movies and our grateful eyes.
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Mitusbishi Moves to Lasers for New Televisions
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MIT - Technology Review
Laser Television - by Kate Green
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Laser TV Unveiled by Adam Bennett
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at 09:11 on March 24th, 2008
It will be interesting to see if this lives up to the hype. I find it pretty confusing when trying to work out what new products to buy - sometimes that great new product gets superseded by another format and all of a sudden that innovative sounding box in the corner becomes just a shiny dust magnet. Witness Betamax video recorders and HD DVDs!
at 09:46 on March 24th, 2008
Hi Rachel!
Thanks for stopping by again to read my article, which I'm happy you enjoyed. Thanks for the GS flag too. :)
I had been begging David for a big screen TV., but being a software engineer, he's much more careful with making such purchases. He often accurately predicts whether or not a technology will stay around or not.
This apparently is going to be a stayer!
~ Swan
at 09:49 on March 24th, 2008
I just checked a few links on this and Rachel is correct, this old technology may go the way of Beta or even worse 8-track tapes. I too get confused with the techno bafflegab on different TVs and what to buy, but in techno wars rivalling changes which may change faster than Microsoft Software packages, perhaps buyers of Blu Ray and HDTV boxes will be SOL if in fact Lasers allow even more vivid and crisper images that HDTV and Blu Ray, rendering even those obsolete and expensive doorstops. I cannot wait till next fall when these Laser Tvs come on the market, especially the 50 inch version which is to be comparably priced with similar 50 inch LCD and Plasma models costing $2,500 to $3,000 dollars. Cosco here I come.
at 11:21 on March 24th, 2008
Hello again Barry,
Yes I'm sure Rachel is right and I agree with all your comments also. Do you suppose that it might also affect the format of future YouTubes?
~ Swan
at 09:39 on March 24th, 2008
Swan, I like this story. It's good stuff. Swan totally awesome story, I too have been in the market as my tv is coming near twenty years old. Excellent story
at 09:49 on March 24th, 2008
Good morning Barry,
A tech., lover too! ;) Well when you buy your first laser TV., perhaps you'll be able to do a review for us and let us know just how super-wonderful it is.
I just know you're going to buy one Barry!
~ Swan
at 09:53 on March 24th, 2008
Damn Straight I'll buy one, I almost purchased a LCD 50 incher at Cosco in Tigard for $2,200 US this weekend, but it wouldn't fit inside my Escalade dammit, besides Canada Customs would have taxed me to death, so now I will wait a few months more for the laser tv and see what the reviews are.
at 10:52 on March 24th, 2008
Swan, very good stuff--and thanks! I have been wanting a big-screen TV to go over my fireplace, and was about to go shopping to start making a list and a budget. But why buy if something newer is coming along? Especially if it's cheaper.
at 11:08 on March 24th, 2008
Hello Pep! :)
Well there you go, I've saved both you and Barry many dollars, since they're supposed to be much cheaper than plasma TVs!
Thanks for the GS flag and comments, :)
~ Swan