| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is well known for their | | | | and on quickly enough to provide for changes in color |
| HDTV rear projection sets. Chances are that you | | | | for the display. |
| have seen those models that utterly dominate large | | | | Mitsubishi expects these new Laser sets to be just |
| living rooms, and look similar to big square-like boxes | | | | over 25 centimeters deep (around 10 inches). |
| that, if hollowed out, could accommodate a family of | | | | Therefore, they will be able to compete in slimness |
| rottweilers. Those large monsters, in which the | | | | of design with some plasma and LCD models. It may |
| picture quality never looked very good from an angle, | | | | be around two years before this technology is |
| will soon be relegated to museums, because rear | | | | available to the consumer, but it will make quite a |
| projectors are getting thinner at a fast clip. Now, | | | | splash when it hits the market. The President of |
| Mitsubishi is pioneering a new way to approach the | | | | Mitsubishi said recently, "We want to release the |
| rear projection HDTV-they are using Lasers! With this | | | | product on the market in two years by creating a |
| new idea from Mitsubishi, a RPTV (Rear Projection | | | | mass-production line capable of being run on a |
| Television) is transformed because a Laser replaces | | | | commercial basis." The staggering fact is that Laser |
| the usual mercury lamp in the rear of the set. The | | | | technology is fully capable of producing a better |
| model is still considered a DLP (Digital Light Projection) | | | | picture than either Plasma or LCD. Of course, |
| but the light comes from red, green and blue Lasers! | | | | improvements in those technologies should not be |
| LASER, which stands for light amplification by | | | | underestimated, but the race is on. Just like during |
| stimulated emission of radiation is a technology | | | | the Internet bubble, there are a number of |
| discovered in the late fifties and is already used in CD | | | | competing technologies, and it is too early to discern |
| players and printers. Albert Einstein knew about the | | | | whether DLP will beat LCD, or Laser will reign over |
| amazing things that photons could do when | | | | Plasma. Stay tuned to see the outcomes, for there is |
| stimulated in the right ways. The pure, coherent light | | | | no known oracle that will spoil the ending for us and |
| provided by the Laser is expected to nearly double | | | | it is getting more interesting all the time. While some |
| the colors available with today's best LCD (Liquid | | | | consumer goods such as CD players and laser |
| Crystal Display) High Definition television sets! The | | | | printers have made use of the laser, this would be |
| picture quality will be enhanced over any existing rear | | | | the first commercial production of Laser light |
| projector. In addition, this new idea will not a require | | | | powering a HDTV display. |
| a color wheel because the Laser can be turned off | | | | |