Mitsubishi intros slew of HDTVs, says LaserVue is coming in Q3
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 7th 2008 10:09AM
posted Apr 7th 2008 10:09AM
Moving on, we've got the new family of Ultra Thin Frame 1080p LCD HDTVs ($2,499 to $4,499; shipping in May), which span between 40- and 52-inches and feature low-profile speakers, Smooth 120Hz Film Motion / GalleryPlayer technology, 10-bit panels, 6-Color Processor, x.v.Color and Deep Color. For these and the DLPs, those who opt for the Diamond series will be treated to Variable Smooth 120Hz Film Motion technology, a DeepField Imager and an oh-so-desirable blue light accent.
Lastly, the Laser TV which made its debut at CES 2008 is on track for a Q3 release, and just as predicted, it'll be going by the name LaserVue and sporting a currently undisclosed price tag. Hit the read link for the full breakdown.
Wow, LaserVue.
You can just tell the marketing department spent a long 20-30 seconds thinking of that briliantly original name.
Gotta feel bad for mitz. I feel this lazer TV thing would have been awesome about 5 years ago when they first started talking about it. In today's market, I bet it will pretty much fail, at least if marketed towards the average consumer.
I hope it finds its niche cause I love the company. Maybe I'll replace my older sammy DLP with a lazerVue, wallet willing. Too bad for them I seem to be one of the few that don't need a paper thin television.
Warning: staring directly into the TV is bad for you.
Freakin' laser beams--mounted on TV, sharks, or otherwise--scares me.
I wonder what my newly adopted grandma is going to say to Mitsubishi about using her fricking lasers? Go, Granny, Go!
I want a frickin' laser projector. If it's shaped like a shark head, so much the better.
I'm excited to see what this Laser TV can bring us. If the price is right and reviews nice I would consider purchasing one. I never planed to a flat TV on a wall, so being super flat isn't a big deal to me if its picture quality if much better than Plasma or LCD.
the price will be in the 5k-7k range at the very min. with the lamp based diamond sets topping at like 4600 range, laser won't be cheap.
But what will be the production costs of the LaserVue sets? I agree that they will likely be priced high initially: to squeeze $$$ from the early adopter crowd, to capitalize on the "it's better so it must cost more" marketing, and to keep the number of units sold low so they can work out any v1.0 issues.
But what are the REAL costs of this technology? In 2-3 years will these LaserVue sets halve in price? Will Mitsu license the technology to other manufacturers?
Since SED is dead, this is the next display technology I'm looking forward to.
reports say that laser tv will be extremely competitive in pricing due to the fact that lasers are not ubber expensive to manufacture anymore... they are said to be priced with similar sized projector tv's
A 60" 1080p for 1,799? Count me in!
Well, I gotta wait to see how much LaserVUE will cost first...
I'll be interested to see how well LaserVue does. The current limitations of LCD bother me. Those limitations being mura, banding, and ghosting.
I'm a fan of Samsung's LED DLP TVs, but AFAIK, All DLPs suffer from one flaw, an that is that the screen only displays 1 color at a time. The problem with this is that I can see the "rainbow effect" if I move my head while watching DLP TVs, and I even noticed the effect on the LED versions which were supposed to "significantly reduce" the effect.
My assumption with laser is that the system will be able to paint the screen with multiple colors simultaneously and that instead of RGB sub-pixels, the lasers will create a single pixel of a truer color. Theoretically, laser light can accurately produce 90% of the visible color spectrum. It would also stand to reason that a laser based projector would be able to produce a much better image than a DLP or LCD based projector.
I'm not going to buy anything until I see how good (or not so good) laser TV actually is...
The "rainbow" problem isn't inherent to DLP technology, it's due to the fact that except for some really high-end (read: expensive) DLP front projectors, most DLP devices are single chip units. Having 3 chips would eliminate the "rainbow effect". All modern LCD and LCoS rear projection TVs and front projectors use 3 chips/panels.
Since the laser is actually designed to replace the UHP lamp or LED light source of a RPTV, unless these new sets have 3 panels, you may still see a "rainbow effect" similar to that of LED-lit sets.
The primary advantages of this technology are to improve color and light output and to increase the usable life span of the light source over the typical UHP lamp.
Hey check out the read link, it says "Magenta, the sixth color nobody else uses but us" I wonder if Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile is going to have to take down Mitsubishi for this?