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Just returned from the Home Entertainment Show in NY. The show displays a large assortment of projectors, making it nirvana for anyone in the market for projectors.
Anyway, TI sent a contingent of sales/engineers to the show. Many of them were congregated at the Samsung booth, showing off the brand-new HD2 chip in rear projection DLP sets (which Samsung will price at $4k for 50â€, and $3 1/2k for a 43†set. They’ll be marketed in July).
To my amazement, I found that reading this forum regularly made me fairly competent in even having this discussion with the TI folk. Here is what I learned about the HD2 chip for front projector:
The HD2 chip will be out in a few months, with the first front projectors expected to be unveiled at the CEDIA show in Minneapolis in late September. The HD2 chip will have mirrors angled at 12 degrees, and will boost the lumens and the contrast ratio “somewhatâ€. But the impact on the image will be quite robust. Did not have other specs on the HD2 chip. In another year, an HD3 chip will be out, whose contrast ratio will exceed 3000. But they had no other data for the HD3 chip.
I must say the HD2 rear projection sets looked noticeably better than the current generation of HD (now old generation) sets on display. Seems like we may have exciting times coming up in the HT industry.
Anyway, TI sent a contingent of sales/engineers to the show. Many of them were congregated at the Samsung booth, showing off the brand-new HD2 chip in rear projection DLP sets (which Samsung will price at $4k for 50â€, and $3 1/2k for a 43†set. They’ll be marketed in July).
To my amazement, I found that reading this forum regularly made me fairly competent in even having this discussion with the TI folk. Here is what I learned about the HD2 chip for front projector:
The HD2 chip will be out in a few months, with the first front projectors expected to be unveiled at the CEDIA show in Minneapolis in late September. The HD2 chip will have mirrors angled at 12 degrees, and will boost the lumens and the contrast ratio “somewhatâ€. But the impact on the image will be quite robust. Did not have other specs on the HD2 chip. In another year, an HD3 chip will be out, whose contrast ratio will exceed 3000. But they had no other data for the HD3 chip.
I must say the HD2 rear projection sets looked noticeably better than the current generation of HD (now old generation) sets on display. Seems like we may have exciting times coming up in the HT industry.