Is 2012 the last year bulb projectors will dominate the market?

ViewSonic is making a HT1080p laser projector. Those Optomas doesn't look like it will fit the bill. I had the Optoma ML500 and I would not consider another led/laser projector that is not good enough to be in a HT. But that's just me

With RED rattling its Laser Light Saber I sure hope you are correct!

Acer too plus 3D:
http://translate.google.com/translat...a-3d_6826.html

I sincerely doubt it. I thought DLP might transition a little quicker, but that looks like another year or two.

Perhaps in their intended markets, but there's not yet a single HT model available.

I'd love to be wrong, but I doubt the Viewsonic will have anywhere close to JVC's native CR.

Optoma's new led/laser/dlp can achieve 80k contrast ratio? Wow.

http://www.avinteractive.com/frontpa...or-at-ise-2012

Probably more like 4k to 1 native.


Does anyone have a price on the Viewsonic? It could be interesting, but I doubt it is going to be a game changer. That being said, if it is under $1500 then I will take a chance on it.

I'm sure it will be $3000-$3500. I'm still hoping that it will be $2000, but I can always hope.

Here comes BenQ 1280*768 for euro $2200:
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...6TPg0PdxXr25Gw

The real news is that front projectors are three years behind flat panels in using LED technology.

Was the same way with FI

Not really the same technology; one is an addressable display chip, the other just a light source.

the benq looks like a blue laser stack behind a color wheel,and the others(viewsonic ,optoma) are 2 leds and a laser(red and blue led and blue laser stack with yellow glass for green)

heres picks in earlier post
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1387952

casio is already making this type of pj 2 led(blue, red), 1laser stack(blue laser yellow phospher/glas for green., dlp chip, no color wheel.The green slim is the one with a color wheel (blue laser for blue, green is done with part the wheel yellow/part clear for blue and a red led).

Does Epson have a relationship with Casio or Viewsonic? If not, I wouldn't be so sure.

The problem might be that the ones who have this technology aren't interested in applying it to the small HT market.

Also I wouldn't say LCD is light efficient, as half of the light is lost to polarization.

It's just not as bad as DLP with a colorwheel, which loses ~2/3.

But lasers' polarized light can be great with LCD/LCOS.

Bulbs are big money profit. Corporations are in no hurry to see this market go away. As long as they can delay the future the happier their bottom line.

The technology is here the will power to innovate and change the market is not.

The handful of players are doing everything possible to slow down the inevitable.

They know we are waiting for the change and it scares the hell out of them.

The first HD projector that can do home theater with LED/Laser will turn the industry upside down and panic will ensue in the boardrooms.

Hurry up because I have my money ready to buy one!

most of the new stuff will only probably using a static color plate (yellow) to change the blue laser to green, the leds are probably luminus brand red and blue,no need for a wheel.

a 3 color/chip lcd/led using white led has been done(sam.spf10) I would think,colored led would be a waste.I dont think we will see a HT led/lcd(the samsung led/lcd spf10 was a flop)

The priority will be business/classroom pjs . HT pj sales are tiny.

Just like advances in the cure for cancer. Usually change will come from a maverick like Red. I would go all out and buy one for 10K rather than the dish we are currently being served.

That's the knee-jerk response to those evil corporations.

There may or may not be a lot of profit in lamps, but if there is it's for the lamp mgr's, not the pj mfgr's.

To them it's just a huge customer service headache.

Yah, besides there are too many competing companies. Tight holds only exist in markets with fewer competitors, other than the companies making the parts itself. All it takes is one company to make the product and release it at a given low enough cost then everyone will be forced to do the same. There isn't some giant projector consortium like OPEC here. Probably TI is the barrier on the DLP side. I imagine it will be at least 2 to 4 years before anything like this replaces the older designs.

There are still cost issues to work out and some other problems.

As the Consumer Advocate the regulators are also part of the industry. Look at the latest Pink Slime scandal, a practice of selling pet food to our children. The head of the USDA approved, just before taking on the top position of the Cattlemen’s Association. Here they are evil are do not represent the consumer or public interest.

If there is a corner, it will be cut. I've purchased two projectors this year as both were defective. I've had to spend considerable time taking a third to the woodshed, to fix the bugs, test and improve quality control. Members have been their unpaid testers. All to make at least one work as advertised.
What is their reward? Shipping it back to the manufacture three times because they cut another corner and won''t allow firmware updates.

They sure seem to be producing them for presentation projectors but not for cinema projectors. I am assuming the engines for the presentation projectors can not be adapted to Cinema projectors because they can not get the color balance.

as far as solid state devices replacing lamps Luminus has just come out with a 2250 Xenon replacement

http://www.luminus.com/