New Sony LCDs and Prototype SXRD

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New Sony LCDs and Prototype SXRD

By Randy Tomlinson • Posted: Jan 9, 2007

Sony showed this giant 82” LCD prototype, which featured LED backlighting and XVycc color space, but you can actually buy a 70” model (for $33,000) with similar technology. A special SXRD rear-projection prototype was powered by a laser rather than a light bulb and was only 10” deep. While there were many claimed advantages of using a laser as a light source, I found something just a bit wrong-looking about the picture on the SXRD prototype. The current SXRDs looked great as did the LCD sets.

Comments

Submitted by Chuck M on May 13, 2007 - 1:56pm.

The reason the color was "wrong-looking" is that lasers are narrow-band color sources, usually just a fraction of a nanometer. The human eye has difficulty mixing such pure color. Wide bandwidth lasers, while delivering a bright picture, would be expensive today. Laser control is another issue.