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hdnola
10-30-09, 07:13 PM
HDI Ltd. Begins Manufacturing of High-Definition Laser-Driven 2D/3D Televisions
Low-Cost, Extremely Energy Efficient 100-inch Diagonal Displays Fast-Tracked for 2010

October 28, 2009 – Los Gatos, CA - HDI Ltd. announces it has entered into a manufacturing agreement to mass produce their proprietary 100-inch diagonal Laser-Driven 2D/3D Switchable Dynamic Video Projection Televisions. HDI Ltd.'s 2D/3D switchable system delivers a stunningly superior 2D image, with a 50% greater resolution than today's digital cinemas, and derives its greater-than-high definition stereoscopic 1920 x 1080p "3D" image quality from two RGB laser-illuminated Liquid Crystal on Silcon (LCOS) micro display imagers. At full 1080p HD, the HDI Ltd. screen refreshes at 360 fields per-second on each eye, the fastest refresh rate on any mass produced television or projector.

HDI Ltd. has completely eliminated the adverse effects, such as migraines, dizziness, nausea, and motion sickness, long associated with inferior and expensive shutter glasses and substandard 3D technology. HDI Ltd. delivers the most immersive, comfortable, and natural 3D viewing experience in the world with low-cost and light-weight proprietary polarized glasses. Technology journalist Richard Hart called HDI Ltd.'s picture quality, "the smoothest yet, and smoothness means no headaches," and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers, stated, "Without a doubt, the best demonstration of 3D technology I have ever seen."

In addition, HDI Ltd. displays draw 80% less power than existing 2D plasma displays of the same size, offer a 95% reduction in manufacturing pollution, and a 100% reduction in harmful chemicals and radioactive components currently used in existing televisions. At 10-inches thick, HDI's 100-inch diagonal display weighs 75% less than equivalent Plasma and LCD displays, and is anticipated to have a street price potentially 60% less than current 2D flatscreen Plasma and LCD displays.

HDI's September 2009 announcement of their potential new standard for switchable 2D/3D television technology came on the same day several major manufactures announced plans to release new energy-guzzling plasma televisions with 3D capabilities via shutter glasses, all of which featured price tags as much as 100% or more than current 2D televisions.

HDI Ltd. quickly caught the interest of the consumer electronics industry and, as reported on Variety.com, top execs, engineers and S3D experts from six of the eight leading television manufactures recently crowded together into HDI Ltd.'s tiny Los Gatos lab to see their prototype 100-inch, rear-projection S3D television.
David Cohen of Variety.com reported, "HDI's approach shows the promise of laser-driven 3D TV could be a reality surprisingly soon," and Sean Portnoy of ZDNet said, "We could be looking at a Holy Grail of sorts for the next generation of television."

According to co-founder Ingemar Jansson, "The first production-run of 100-inch HDI Ltd. 2D/3D switchable displays should quickly put product into a multitude of B2B and public demonstration venues." He's mum as to when leading American retailers will be able to put units into homes, but stresses that the simplistic and inexpensive design and manufacturing techniques required to produce HDI Ltd. televisions, "will have product in the marketplace faster than one would expect," and adds, "either with the HDI logo or that of another leading manufacturer."

Offering a thought on the fact that California appears poised to be the first state to ban power-guzzling big-screen TVs, Jansson states, "In light of the energy efficient products emerging from companies such as Apple, the lobbying efforts of the Consumer Electronics Association strikes me as almost criminal in promoting antiquated technologies that the 'Grid,' and the planet, simply cannot sustain."

http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/10/30/hdis-laser-driven-3d-hdtv-hits-production-should-ship-next-yea/#thankYou

milk
10-31-09, 12:47 AM
Why does Laser TV get such little recognition in relation to OLED?

HDI is clearly saying that their Laser TV is superior to any and all LCD and Plasma but when there is talk about next generation (non LCD/Plasma) technolgies 90% of the talk is OLED, OLED, OLED.

Is there really not going to be any room for Laser TV? Do these guys at HMI in California have a big bag of nothing here or? What are your thoughts? Thank you.

kelpie
10-31-09, 08:12 AM
Interesting, thanks hdnola. The engadget article mentions a price "potentially 60% less than current 2D flatscreen Plasma and LCD displays". With Panasonic's 103" TH-103PF9UK plasma MSRP at $50,000 that would put the HDI display at ~$20,000? An earlier article from variety.com on 10/13/09 (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009890.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1) mentioned that HDI was looking for manufacturing partners and estimated availability in about 24 months, but perhaps HDI sealed a deal sooner. The variety.com article estimated a price for the 100" HDI laser display at $10,000-15,000 initially. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

walford
10-31-09, 09:19 AM
AFAIK Sony has put their OLED project on hold since the company is currently losing money. I don't know what other companies are currently developing OLED.

davegow
10-31-09, 10:22 AM
I've had the feeling for some time that if rear-projection has a future it may be in the high-end speciality market. This seems to be a move in that direction. There are some truly impressive premium front-projection technologies available that could be modified for use in rear-projection.

milk
10-31-09, 09:32 PM
I've had the feeling for some time that if rear-projection has a future it may be in the high-end speciality market. This seems to be a move in that direction. There are some truly impressive premium front-projection technologies available that could be modified for use in rear-projection.

Thanks, Dave. As you mention it I do believe that is the most likely application for it.. a specialty/high end set. Hope to see it myself sometime in 2010.

dclark
10-31-09, 11:08 PM
AFAIK Sony has put their OLED project on hold since the company is currently losing money. I don't know what other companies are currently developing OLED.

I haven't heard of Sony putting OLED on hold. Samsung has a 16" oled computer monitor, so I think it is safe to say that they are in the game. Also, didn't mitsubishi recently show off a large oled set at a show?

ninthdragon
11-03-09, 02:09 AM
Check out the Rolltop by Orkin Design. It is a roll up OLED that can be configured as a 17" monitor or a 13" tablet pc. Try here (http://www.orkin-design.de). This should be available soon!

jacksonian
12-13-09, 09:26 PM
I'd pay $10k for this thing if it's that good.

jacksonian
12-15-09, 07:19 PM
Actually, I'd be really happy with a 2-D version for even less. Not sure if I'm gonna ever care about 3-D

xc3ll
12-28-09, 10:47 PM
Engadget has a ABC news clip about this set. You can't really trust their "tech" experts, but it looks pretty promising. You can see the Woz enjoying himself...

http://hd.engadget.com/2009/09/17/hdi-concocts-100-inch-laser-based-3d-hdtv-calls-rivaling-techno/

price tag is between 10-15k USD

DaViD Boulet
12-30-09, 04:04 PM
This is the most exciting thing to happen in AV in ages. I'm really surprised that there's not more discussion on the forum. I think part of the problem is that most passionate discussions about new technologies like this happen at AVS in the front-projection forums and this is "technically" a rear-projection device at the moment. However, a 100" image is a 100" image... and if the PQ is equal to or better than a FP set-up, what does it matter that it's rear-projection? Obviously if they want to mass-market a 100" RP display the depth/footprint has to be shallow enough to make it something that could fit into an existing room and not require 10 feet of "shooting" distance for the lasers. We've seen some really REALLY shallow RP units lately that compete with flat-screens for slim profile design... so even a 24" footprint for a 100" image would be easily accomodated in most setups.

Naturally, any RP design could also be converted for FP as well... as long as folks wouldn't go blind by looking up at the light beaming from the PJ unit.

Count me in folks. Will this be at the January show?

xc3ll
01-04-10, 04:24 AM
I really hope this technology will be showing up more. This could be the holy grail that I've been searching for the past 5 years....

estoniankid
01-04-10, 11:07 PM
Actually, I'd be really happy with a 2-D version for even less. Not sure if I'm gonna ever care about 3-D

you clearly have not seen avatar in the digital imax format.
it is a game changer.

I would easily spend 5K-7K for a 3d set that can duplicate what
I saw with the digital imax 3d

estoniankid
01-04-10, 11:12 PM
can they solve the green blob and ob failures endemic to lcos rp sets?

green blob killed sony's and jvc's rp lcos sets. but both still make
excellent fp based on lcos.

weird how lcos works for fp but not rp, at least so far to date.