Laser TV Hmm??

[Poke]

http://www.tvpredictions.com/lasertv101006.htm


Will Laser TV Kill the Plasma TV?

New display technology promises better pictures and lower prices.
By Phillip Swann

Washington, D.C. (October 10, 2006) -- Did you just buy a new Plasma TV?

Well, two start-up companies say your new set could be obsolete in the next year.

Novalux, a U.S. firm, and Australian chip maker Arasor have unveiled the world's first laser TV, saying it will offer a better picture and lower price than current Plasma sets. Even better, they say, it will use less electricity than today's flat-screen TVs.

"If you look at any screen today, the color content is roughly about 30-35 per cent of what the eye can see," says Novalux CEO Jean-Michel Pelaprat. "But for the very first time with a laser TV we'll be able to see 90 per cent of what the eye can see. All of a sudden what you see is a lifelike image on display."

Pelaprat predicts that the new Laser TV, which is scheduled to be launched by the 2007 holidays, will be the death of Plasma TV. However, he said LCD TVs will still dominate the smaller-screen market.


Info on Novalux

http://www.novalux.com/ hmm this could be interesting.. Click on "Display Technology" then "Home Theater" this could be cool.

Info on Arasor
http://www.arasor.com.au/consumer/consumer.asp

Man and they could be cheaper as well!

 

[navychop]

There was a laser FP system the Russians came up with. Whatever happened to that? This "new" approach may be killed by patent royalties, eye damage concerns, etc, even if it hits the market.

And it might be able to display 90%, but does ATSC provide 90%?

On the other hand, this might be the greatest thing yet, and kill off SED in the crib. Or actually, in the womb.

I'm just cynical. Too many promises over the years, too few products to market.

 

[oswald]

What? They can't even put lasers on freakin' sharks yet!

 

[teachsac]

MItsubishi had a laser set at their line show in April. A lot to work out. The base is big and ugly.

 

[cebbigh]

Carbon Nanotube Displays (CNT) should eventually provide huge screens at low cost in the next few years. Hope my existing set lasts till then.

http://www.nsti.org/news/item.html?id=23

 

[navychop]

That link is a year old! No progress?

 

[Stargazer]

This looks very promising. I hope we see this soon. It is about time for the next advancement in television technology to get the prices of big screen tv's down.

Whatever happened to the OLED that they thought would come to market in the future? They said that was years away though but is that still going to be a possibility or are they already looking at newer better technology that would be able to accomplish the same thing?

Here are some links that I found :

http://news.com.com/Carbon+TVs+to+edge+out+liquid+crystal,+plasma/2100-1041_3-5512225.html

http://news.com.com/Texas+company+demos+carbon+nanotube+TV/2100-1041_3-5853193.html

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/02/06/nanotubes_are_next/

 

[whatchel1]

Oled

Just read an article recently and the OLED is still in development. Reason is that they can't get the prices down low enuff to be competitive with LCD, & Plasma.

 

[The Big Wood]

MItsubishi had a laser set at their line show in April. A lot to work out. The base is big and ugly.

Your statement just brought back a distant memory...

I worked at Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics in the mid 90's when the working concept for the plasma was built. What happened when they tested it? It literally caught on fire!

Beware of TV's that include fire extinguishers!

 

[Neutron]

Moving to appropriate forum.

 

[long_time_DNC]

I guess the issue that bothers me most about all this new display technology is that we have sub-par signals to feed it. HD isn't really HD anymore, except on DVD...and there we have a format war going on, so that turns of all but the most die-hard early adopters.

So we get better and better display technology...so what? Until we have decent HD to feed it, we're just trying to make overcompressed SD look better.

That, to me, is a pretty sad situation...

 

[Stargazer]

At least we will be ready for the better video qualities when they come our way. Pretty pointless to have the better video quality if we do not have tv's to support it and they may not want to roll out the better video quality in larger numbers until enough people have it. Another way of looking at it is: if they would come out with the better picture quality now then more people would want to get the HD televisions.

 

[long_time_DNC]

I guess my point is: I don't want to fork out $3-4k for an even better/newer/higher-def display, when I can't get a top-notch signal to feed it.

The better quality picture isn't in the foreseeable future - unless HD-DVD or BD settle their differences (or there's a clear winner in a quick format war). Cable doesn't seem to care about PQ, and both satellite companies are about in the same boat.

It's a chicken-and-egg situation now. Better equipment or better signals. At this point in time, it doesn't look like we're going to get the latter anytime soon. That doesn't mean r&d into new/better display technologies shouldn't continue. It just means it's going to be a harder sell to the consumer since the signal quality isn't there.

 

[hdtvtechno]

I guess my point is: I don't want to fork out $3-4k for an even better/newer/higher-def display, when I can't get a top-notch signal to feed it.

The better quality picture isn't in the foreseeable future - unless HD-DVD or BD settle their differences (or there's a clear winner in a quick format war). Cable doesn't seem to care about PQ, and both satellite companies are about in the same boat.

It's a chicken-and-egg situation now. Better equipment or better signals. At this point in time, it doesn't look like we're going to get the latter anytime soon. That doesn't mean r&d into new/better display technologies shouldn't continue. It just means it's going to be a harder sell to the consumer since the signal quality isn't there.

Exactly....

 

[8bitbytes]

Just read a little bit on Mitsu's Laser TV - apparently it is a DLP with 3 primary color lasers instead of one white light. Sounds like the LED DLP tvs. Still looking for Arasor's description of how theirs works.

Found it - same thing. Here is the description from the article I read:

"The prototype showed in Sydney is basically a DLP TV with the laser technology replacing the light bulb - only minor tweaks had been done to account for the wider spectrum of the laser. In contrast, the plasma is a commerical product that has been selling for years, and I trust they are well & trully tweaked. Again, the plasma looked great, until you saw twice the colour coming from the Laser TV next to it."

 

[riffjim4069]

Heck, I'm still waiting on the SED I had planned to buy this fall...

 

[Digital Dude]

Heck, I'm still waiting on the SED I had planned to buy this fall...

The factories are being built, maybe next fall.

 

[Stargazer]

I am waiting for the SED's as well. It is supposed to drop the prices down to about half on the larger televisions and the quality should be greater. I decided to hold out for this new technology. They also say that the life should be much longer where the bulbs or whatever does not burn out nearly as quick as the current ones do. This will be the change others and I have been waiting for and this will ramp the HD tv purchases WAY up.

 

[long_time_DNC]

LED DLPs are supposed to have a 20k hours LED life, as opposed to 8k hours for the 100-watt lamps. 20k hours would (for me) be about 7-8 years. I won't even own it that long before upgrading again...

 

[Stargazer]

That would be about 5 years if you play the television 12 hours per day, about 8 years if you play the televison 10 hours per day. Even if you play it that many hours per day, by the time the bulb wears out something new will probably be out by then.