Mitsubishi builds lasers!

[GundamXXX]

Mitsubishi Electric Corp developed the "Laser Backlight LCD TV," which uses laser diodes for part of its backlight source, and prototyped a 46-inch TV.

Its backlight unit includes two types of light sources: red laser diode and cyan LED. Compared with Mitsubishi Electric's existing LCD TVs, which use white LEDs for backlight, the color gamut of the new TV is about 1.3 times wider. It is a 126% color gamut on NTSC standards.

"Especially, the vividness of red color has drastically improved," the company said.

Mitsubishi Electric has already commercialized a rear projection TV using RGB color lasers (See related article). This time, the company used only the red color laser.

"We took costs into consideration for commercialization," it said. "And we found that the red color laser is more effective than the other lasers."

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Well I gave a loud WTF when I read this
Lasers for TV? It sounds pretty good to me especially since they can build large screens with it opposed to OLED

 

[Sausage Head]

The first sentence smells like science-fiction to me.
What's the use of this anyway.

 

[GundamXXX]

The first sentence smells like science-fiction to me.
What's the use of this anyway.

Better color from what I understand

 

[Range-TE]

when i read the title, the thought of "laser shooting cars" came to mind

 

[Schlupi]

Sounds dangerous.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Doesn't sound that dangerous to me.

They use lasers in optical readers, though I'd think the principles are a little different. For one thing the laser in an optical reader is part of a closed system.

 

[ThePowerOutage]

Wasn't there a 3D TV that used lasers at CES?

 

[shakirmoledina]

i dont remember CES having one but its plausible... whats the price?
the image definitely looks sharper and clear

 

[ManFranceGermany]

Sounds dangerous.

"some" years ago they said the same about subways, cars, airplanes, computers, monitors.....

 

[GundamXXX]

Sounds dangerous.

"some" years ago they said the same about subways, cars, airplanes, computers, monitors.....

Indeed

When trains were first build they didnt have windows that could open because they were scared the air would get sucked out... Steamtrains went like 25km/u or something lol
They also thought the world was flat