i just saw this in my crutchfield catalog...i heard of OLEDs that are the bomb for the new HDTV's out there....but i never heard of lasers in tv's now. Anyone know more about this technology? or seen it at a show?


http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Ite...90L65A90&tp=162

 

Looks like its a DLP tv. These type of tv's have a spinning mirror. Red, blue, & green light are shined onto this mirror & the image is projected onto the screen. These laser dlp's replace the white light used to create the red, blue, green with red blue green lasers.

 

Yeah, my brother has been talking about those for a while. He was planning to get one when they came out, but I guess he figured they'd be out of his price range, so he ended up buying an LCD until the price on the laser TVs comes down. Sounds pretty cool, if it is similar to DLP, but with lasers. I would think lasers would be more efficient than the 7gigawatt bulb that I have heating up my media room.

 

Its not similar to DLP it IS DLP. It's just that there is no bulb to replace and no color wheel (so no rainbow effects). Three lasers instead. Thats a whole lot of money for a rear projection TV. At least there is no bulb to burn out, just lasers to dim over time.

The OP mentioned LEDs. OLED is a newer technology but very expensive and there are only small displays so far (Sony just released one).

There are also a couple of LED illuminated LCD sets but they tend to be a bit pricey and a little hot spottish according to the reviews. One advantage to having distributed LEDs behind the LCD is it allows locallized dimming of the picture for dark areas. This improves overall contrast. Plus LEDs don't draw as much power and last even longer than the flourescents in traditional LCD sets.

I keep heading back to Plasma. It draws more power but black levels are superb now. Panasonic is now expecting a half brighness life on their 1080P plasmas to be on the order of 100,000 hours. At 6.5 hours per day of use that is about 25 years from what I read.

 

Wow, thats a nice life span. I bought my sammy lcd back in '07 & it only had a 30,000 hr life. I do like the plasma's picture more than lcd, but went lcd because I like to game some. How are these new Panasonic plasma's with image burn in?

 

My Panasonic plasma is excellent. I love it! I haven't noticed much of an image burn except for a minute or less after the TV is turned off. There is absolutely no permanent image burn of any sort on mine.

 

My question is: How can you watch this TV without burning your retinas. Lasers supposedly burn your retinas if you look at them.

 

I have to move my 50" plasma in to the bedroom. I'm starting to have a slight IR problem due to the games. Need to get a DLP or LCD.... I knew Mitsu just came out with a 73" Laser DLP for about 6 or 7k. Not sure if would spend my money on that... Unfortunately the bleeding edge of technology will make this obsolete by 2013. When something newer will be out. There's already talks of 1440p capable TVs... but there's no 1440 signal. I'm sure that will change eventually. When 1080i TVs came out, there wasn't a single 1080 signal out there. Maybe 720 but eventually they came out with it, now it's everywhere, Blu-ray, video games, tv signals. Crazy how much things have changed in just 5 years.

Now that I think about it though... might as well get whatever you want. The worlds over in 2012! LOL

 

My Panasonic 1080p plasma is already incredibly clear. I can see every little zit and pore on a person's face. Why would anyone want a TV to be any clearer - to see every peach fuss? Sometimes, super duper clear is not that good.

 

Skanky girls in HD Pr0n FTL.