Wait for laser TV?

Steve wrote:
Excerpts from http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20556847-2,00.html

It's being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual
technology - a laser television that will make plasma screens
obsolete.

Australian company Arasor International and its US partner Novalux
unveiled what they claimed to be the world's first laser television in
Sydney today, with a pitch that it would be half the price, twice as
good, and use a quarter of the electricity of conventional plasma and
LCD TVs.

Displayed beside a conventional 50 inch plasma TV, the
Mitsubishi-built prototype does appear brighter and clearer than its
rival.

With a worldwide launch date scheduled for Christmas 2007, Novalux
chief executive Jean-Michel Pelaprat is so bold as to predict the
death of plasma. "If you look at any screen today, the colour content
is roughly about 30-35% of what the eye can see. But for the very
first time with a laser TV we'll be able to see 90% of what the eye
can see."

Combine that with energy efficiency, price advantage and the fact that
the laser TVs will be half the weight and depth of plasma TVs.

Mr. Pelaprat predicted that LCD would come to dominate the market
below 40 inches, and laser television the market above that screen
size, displacing plasma.


Be sure to get in line behind those who are waiting for their SED HD
TVs. Canon and Toshiba were supposed to start selling SED TVs to Japan
in late 2005 or early with SED flat panels hitting the US by late 2006.
The data for the introduction of SED flat panels in any sort of volume
has slipped to 2008 IIRC. And Canon and Toshiba are large companies who
have spent a lot of money on getting SED to production.

If you wait for the perfect display technology, you will have a long wait.

Alan F

Alan wrote:

I think that their marketing is just puffery. Until they are delivering
product in reasonable quantity, at reasonable prices, they are probably
just looking for investors.

Mitsubishi Claims It Knows Nothing About Laser TV

http://tinyurl.com/yefmdv

fr.

"SAC 441" wrote in message
...
Actually I am waiting for 3-D metafluxed crystal
interphased projected holosuites that are like the ones on the starship
Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

I'm waiting for Best Buy to put them on sale. But by that time I'll be
waiting for mind-insertion image generation devices. And then I'll decide to
wait for 3-D mind-insertion image devices, and then I'll wait for these to
be on sale at half-price, and then I'll decide to wait for...

And ultimately I'll die at age 94 still watching the 27 inch Sanyo that I
bought in 1968.

Steve wrote:
Excerpts from http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20556847-2,00.html

It's being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual
technology - a laser television that will make plasma screens
obsolete.

Australian company Arasor International and its US partner Novalux
unveiled what they claimed to be the world's first laser television in
Sydney today, with a pitch that it would be half the price, twice as
good, and use a quarter of the electricity of conventional plasma and
LCD TVs.

Displayed beside a conventional 50 inch plasma TV, the
Mitsubishi-built prototype does appear brighter and clearer than its
rival.

With a worldwide launch date scheduled for Christmas 2007, Novalux
chief executive Jean-Michel Pelaprat is so bold as to predict the
death of plasma. "If you look at any screen today, the colour content
is roughly about 30-35% of what the eye can see. But for the very
first time with a laser TV we'll be able to see 90% of what the eye
can see."

Combine that with energy efficiency, price advantage and the fact that
the laser TVs will be half the weight and depth of plasma TVs.

Mr. Pelaprat predicted that LCD would come to dominate the market
below 40 inches, and laser television the market above that screen
size, displacing plasma.


Where facts are few, experts are many.

...Donald R. Gannon
I believe this launch date is overly optimistic.

I work in the flight simulation business and we just looked at the
Evans & Sutherland laser projector recently. They are furthest along
in this hunt. While it's absolutely gorgeous, it's going to take time
to work out the bugs, just like the other technologies awaiting their
time (e.g. SED and OLED). Cooling is a major issue, as the model I saw
required water cooling. As they move away from chemical lasers
coolling will be easier.

Pricing will be astronomical.

justsc

On 18 Oct 2006 07:57:32 -0700, wrote:
I believe this launch date is overly optimistic.

I work in the flight simulation business and we just looked at the
Evans & Sutherland laser projector recently. They are furthest along
in this hunt. While it's absolutely gorgeous, it's going to take time
to work out the bugs, just like the other technologies awaiting their
time (e.g. SED and OLED). Cooling is a major issue, as the model I saw
required water cooling. As they move away from chemical lasers
coolling will be easier.

Pricing will be astronomical.

Water cooled? Well, about 99 years ago I used some prototype/mil
Hughes (monochrome) video projectors, that were lit by something close
to a carbon arc, now that you mention it, had a MTTF of about six
hours. Did produce a nice, large, bright image, when it worked.

But, the prototype used chemical lasers? Can't see them selling a
real-world product like that, what's the mileage on a thing like that,
I mean, does it require a flow of chemicals just to run, or does it
just run for a minute at a time on a fillup?

J.

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:23:34 -0400, Dave Gower wrote:


"SAC 441" wrote in message
...
Actually I am waiting for 3-D metafluxed crystal
interphased projected holosuites that are like the ones on the starship
Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

I'm waiting for Best Buy to put them on sale. But by that time I'll be
waiting for mind-insertion image generation devices. And then I'll decide to
wait for 3-D mind-insertion image devices, and then I'll wait for these to
be on sale at half-price, and then I'll decide to wait for...

And ultimately I'll die at age 94 still watching the 27 inch Sanyo that I
bought in 1968.

You had a 27" Sanyo in 1968? Why don't you use the same time machine that
you used to buy the Sanyo to buy that holodeck you always wanted? We had a
19" black and white Admiral in 1968, my father was waiting for color to
be "perfected" (sound familiar?) before he bought one. RCA and Zenith had
25" color sets then but I don't think anyone made a 27" set until the
1980s. I also have no recollection of any Japanese brand except Sony which
was producing tiny transistorized TVs, I think they were 13" but they
might have been smaller.

"JackP" wrote:

Buy the set that works for you when you want it.


True

But this laser technology sounds very promising.

Could be a paradigm shift

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote

You had a 27" Sanyo in 1968? Why don't you use the same time machine that
you used to buy the Sanyo to buy that holodeck you always wanted? We had a
19" black and white Admiral in 1968, my father was waiting for color to
be "perfected" (sound familiar?) before he bought one. RCA and Zenith had
25" color sets then but I don't think anyone made a 27" set until the
1980s. I also have no recollection of any Japanese brand except Sony which
was producing tiny transistorized TVs, I think they were 13" but they
might have been smaller.

Do you always respond to jokes with a stream of technical information?

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:50:59 -0400, Dave Gower wrote:


"General Schvantzkoph" wrote

You had a 27" Sanyo in 1968? Why don't you use the same time machine that
you used to buy the Sanyo to buy that holodeck you always wanted? We had a
19" black and white Admiral in 1968, my father was waiting for color to
be "perfected" (sound familiar?) before he bought one. RCA and Zenith had
25" color sets then but I don't think anyone made a 27" set until the
1980s. I also have no recollection of any Japanese brand except Sony which
was producing tiny transistorized TVs, I think they were 13" but they
might have been smaller.

Do you always respond to jokes with a stream of technical information?

I responded with another joke, I suggested that you use your time machine
to buy a holodeck. You obviously have a time machine because you were able
to buy a 27" Sanyo in 1968.

On 18 Oct 2006 07:21:07 -0700, wrote:

I think that their marketing is just puffery. Until they are delivering
product in reasonable quantity, at reasonable prices, they are probably
just looking for investors.

Mitsubishi Claims It Knows Nothing About Laser TV

http://tinyurl.com/yefmdv

Thanks for the link.
The important part of it seemed to be that the so-called manufactures
were a Cayman Island Corporation.

Mike O.