Mitsubishi tries to bring back appeal to eco-friendly RP TVs

Date: June 28, 2010

Whatever happened to rear projection TV? Did it stop being trendy because it was expensive and used up too much space in the home? Well Mitsubishi has always backed the technology and this week, in the US, came out with a 75 inch and 82 inch top of the range. Rear Projection TV has recently been trying to make a comeback on the back of the "green" culture and low power usage.

The Mitsubishi device is available today and is 3D ready and uses the company's LaserVue technology, which has been established for some years, though of late has been losing market share to slim, flat LCD TVs. The L75-A91 and the 82 inch DLP Home Cinema TV both come with what the company calls Cinema Color mode, which sounds like a way by which proprietary algorithms during the processing of the video, attempt to recreate the color as if it was delivered at a higher bit rate, using broader variations in hue. Similar techniques are used by most of the LCD TV manufacturers already.

The sets also come with direct access to the internet with Mitsubishi's StreamTV feature. And true to the eco-friendly message, the devices are claimed to be 50% lower in power than Energy Star qualifications, at 128 Watts. The company says that the technology consumes 0.05 watts per square inch of viewing area.

Given that the 82 inch TV provides more than three times the picture area of a 46-inch screen, and that the screen consumes most of the power in any TV set, you would not want the electricity bills on any normal 82 inch set. They both need a 3D starter pack to upgrade them to work with 3D and this contain two pairs of active shutter 3D eyewear, a 3D emitter, 3D Adapter with remote, and an HDMI cable. Mitsubishi previously offered a 65-inch device as its top end product.

These monsters will go on retail during July at $6,000 for the 75 inch model, but no price has yet been released for the larger Cinema system.

Max Wasinger, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, said "Consumers want to immerse themselves in movies, games and sports in 3D, and with the introduction and retail availability of our new 3D Starter Pack, We've now made that possible." The 3D Adapter within the 3D Starter Pack was initially announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, and is launched as the 3DA-1 and it can convert side-by-side, top-bottom, and frame-packing 3D signal formats and will work with some older Mitsubishi TVs as well. All the Mitsubishi devices use the Texas Instruments DLP (digital light processing) technology which uses micromirrors on a chip to dynamically re-direct laser light to the back of a screen.

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