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Thursday, February 28, 2008

What is Laser TV?

Laser TV is a proposed new video display technology using laser optoelectronics. Although proposed as long ago as 1966, laser illumination remained too costly and too poor in performance to viably replace lamps except in some rare ultra-high-end projectors

At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in 2006, Novalux Inc., developer of Necsel™ semiconductor laser technology, demonstrated their laser illumination source for projection displays and a prototype rear-projection "laser" TV

First reports on the development of a commercial Laser TV were published as early as 2006-02-16 with a decision on the large-scale availability of laser televisions expected by early 2008.
On January 7, 2008, at an event associated with the Consumer Electronics Show 2008, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, a key player in the LED laser market, unveiled their first commercial Laser TV, a 65" Full HD model.

First audiences who were shown reference clips from popular movies reported that they were blown away by a Laser TV's hitherto unseen color-display prowess. Some even described it as being too intense to the point of seeming artificial.

These DLP-based rear-projection TVs are expected to go on sale by Black Friday 2008 under the LAZRTV trademark. For plausibility, it may be worthy to note that Mitsubishi invented the first rear-projection television and was the first to sell a complete high-definition TV system in the U.S.

SYCO of China released a 120-inch Laser TV, the biggest in the world so far, and it will be used in cinema in late 2007.

-wikipedia