June 18, 2008Luminus
Devices today announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments DLP Products (TI)
(NYSE: TXN) that bring together the company’s award-winning PhlatLight®
LED technology with TI’s DLP® technology bringing high-quality,
long-lasting solid-state illumination to mainstream projection applications. The
two companies will demonstrate the industry’s first 1080p prototype home
theater projection system using their combined technology during InfoComm 2008
taking place from June 18 – 20 in Las
Vegas.
An ongoing
collaboration between Luminus and TI has resulted in dramatic brightness improvements
for DLP projection systems using PhlatLight LED illumination, with
breakthroughs from TI in Digital Light Processing enabled by the PhlatLight LED
digital light source from Luminus. These improvements are enabling several
leading projection manufacturers to introduce DLP home theater projectors later
in 2008. Further developments by TI and Luminus will lead to the introduction
of DLP projectors for corporate and education markets powered by PhlatLight
LEDs in 2009.
PhlatLight LED-based projectors have been
previously developed and commercialized, but until today brightness has limited
their use to lower brightness ultra-portable pocket projectors. The
significance of this breakthrough is that it creates the first lamp free
projector for mainstream applications that delivers all the color and
performance advantages without compromising brightness.
“DLP
projectors illuminated by PhlatLight LEDs have significant advantages, offering
superior versatility, reliability and convenience with instant start-up, stable
brightness and color over the life of the projector plus they eliminate the
need for lamp replacement,” said Christian Hoepfner,
vice president of products, Luminus Devices. “PhlatLight LEDs give DLP
projectors a digital RGB light source delivering unprecedented image quality
with a wider color gamut, accurate, saturated colors with higher contrast and
deeper blacks.”
Luminus has
been manufacturing its patented PhlatLight LEDs for HDTV’s since 2006 and PhlatLight
LEDs remain the only LEDs that are bright and efficient enough to replace arc
lamps. PhlatLight LEDs are unique in that they are larger than conventional LEDs
and designed to operate at significantly higher intensity. Projectors
illuminated by PhlatLight LEDs produce more than fifty percent wider color
gamut than the NTSC standard and the pure, primary colors sequentially pulsed at
high speeds, provide ultra-fast color refresh for stable, accurate colors and a
smooth picture with superior motion quality.
The
prototype home theater projector will be demonstrated during Infocomm at TI’s DLP
booth, Central Hall #C909, June 18-20, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
To schedule a meeting with a Luminus spokesperson at InfoComm or for more
information contact Bill Keeler or Nicole Slein of Schwartz Communications at
781 684-0770 or luminus@schwartz-pr.com.
