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Today's Display Daily's lead story on TI finally going public with its smaller 4K DMDs, leads to an 404 page, when one clicks the read more button, the story isn't to be found on the homepage either. So, did Chris get the scoop, but TI got cold feet, or what Happened. Anyway, this is yet another indication TI is making moves, but also is still hesitant, as rumours on the 0.98" 4K DMD have been floating around for a few years,with they are coming, followed by no we're not gonna do it, again followed they are coming, afterall.
Chris informed me that the story was not pulled at all, but that there was a posting eror, the full story is now up, and reveales the 0.7" DMD is made according the tip&roll design and sports 4 million pixels. The shifting showed no aliassing where competing JVC projector did, it stacked up favorably to one of the Sony 4K HT projectors. CES should see some early private projector demo's with showfloor demo's a month later at ISE in Amsterdam.
So DLP is looking to compete for the middle of the market again, where it has been absent for years. This releases pressure on releasing a smaller 4K DMD, like the 0.98" DCi, perhaps at lower performance that normally would be disgarded. As this still makes for large and expensive optics and lightpaths, and second genertaion 4K DCi and staging projectors are well served with the 1.4" DMD.
Panasonic uses a smaller (0.7") WQXGA DMD with the 4 position shifting 'Quad Pixel Drive' we reported about this winter, when launched at ISE by Panasonic for its PT-RQ13K LASER-Phosphor 3 WQXGA DMD projector, that is reported to be implemented by Texas Instruments in a prototype single DMD projector. The image of the small chip seems to indicate it is, as it is much smaller than the 0.98" 4K DMD, judging by the 1.4" DMD included for reference. But it is not confirmed this is the same DMD as in the TI prototype.
The Panasonic PT-RQ13K is still scheduled to ship in November, indicative RRP was €58K excluding VAT. So evaluation units should have been in hands of prospective customers, like rental & staging firms, and key distributors, for a while now.
Large images allowing for pixel peeping:
Nice rich colors,clean image:
Squigly:
Soft:
Chris informed me that the story was not pulled at all, but that there was a posting eror, the full story is now up, and reveales the 0.7" DMD is made according the tip&roll design and sports 4 million pixels. The shifting showed no aliassing where competing JVC projector did, it stacked up favorably to one of the Sony 4K HT projectors. CES should see some early private projector demo's with showfloor demo's a month later at ISE in Amsterdam.
So DLP is looking to compete for the middle of the market again, where it has been absent for years. This releases pressure on releasing a smaller 4K DMD, like the 0.98" DCi, perhaps at lower performance that normally would be disgarded. As this still makes for large and expensive optics and lightpaths, and second genertaion 4K DCi and staging projectors are well served with the 1.4" DMD.
Panasonic uses a smaller (0.7") WQXGA DMD with the 4 position shifting 'Quad Pixel Drive' we reported about this winter, when launched at ISE by Panasonic for its PT-RQ13K LASER-Phosphor 3 WQXGA DMD projector, that is reported to be implemented by Texas Instruments in a prototype single DMD projector. The image of the small chip seems to indicate it is, as it is much smaller than the 0.98" 4K DMD, judging by the 1.4" DMD included for reference. But it is not confirmed this is the same DMD as in the TI prototype.
The Panasonic PT-RQ13K is still scheduled to ship in November, indicative RRP was €58K excluding VAT. So evaluation units should have been in hands of prospective customers, like rental & staging firms, and key distributors, for a while now.
Large images allowing for pixel peeping:
Nice rich colors,clean image:
Squigly:
Soft: