DLP technology gives new life to display systems

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Digital light processing (DLP) goes far beyond LCD and CRT technology to offer awesome color and a distortion-free picture that works in lighted rooms at wide viewing angles. The technology, developed by Texas Instruments, reflects light off of a grid of 16-micron aluminum mirrors, each of which corresponds to a pixel in the entire image. The mirrors flip to either an on or off position, remaining on for a time length that corresponds to the gray level of the pixel. This remarkable technology can display a 60 field-per-second video, with absolutely no bleeding, color change, or dead pixels, all problems that are common to LCD display technology. DLP projectors will be available in one, two, or three chip configurations, with the three-chip configuration being the most light-efficient.

Product development, Technology overview, Texas Instruments Inc., TXN, Liquid crystal displays, LCD display, CRT Display

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DVD is coming to town

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Digital videodisc (DVD) technology is expected to assault the consumer market during Christmas 1996. New DVD players will cost around $500 to $800, but the DVD disk will be capable of holding 4.7GB of data, which is equivalent to a two hour, thirteen minute movie with full MPEG 2 quality. DVD formats for video support 720 by 480, which is more resolution than the 320 by 240 available on VHS. DVD vendors settled their difference early and have agreed upon a single standard, which has been dubbed the Dolby AC-3 5.1 Surround Sound standard. With DVD technology, consumers will able to rewind, fast-forward and create stills. Manufacturing issues for the new technology are not expected to be significant since existing CD production plants will be able to retool for relatively little money.

Technology development, Digital video, CD-ROM disks, CD-ROM Technology

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PCI captures Mac video vendors

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New video cards for the Macintosh platform are introduced at the MacWorld Expo trade show in 1996. Among the products are the Data Translation Media 100 qx, Miro Computer Products MiroMotion DC20, Radius VideoVision PCI and Truevision Targa 2000 Pro PCI. The Data Translation device costs $4,995 and is available now. It comes bundled with Adobe Premiere 4.2 The MicroMotion DC20 from Miro Computer Products costs only $1,199 and will ship Apr 1996; it also comes with the Premiere 4.2 software, which normally sells for $795 by itself. The Radius VideoVision board will ship 1st qtr 1996 for under $4,000. TrueVision's Targa 2000 costs $4,995 and comes with version 1.5 of the Targa software, which makes QuickTime video clips run faster.

Computer hardware, Product introduction, Product Announcement, Radius Inc., Video processing equipment, Video capture boards, Hardware product introduction, Data Translation Inc., Truevision Inc., Full-motion video board, Full motion video boards, DATX, RDUSD, Data Translation Media 100 qx (Video processing equipment), miro Computer Products Inc., miro Computer Products miroMotion DC20 (Video processing equipment), Radius VideoVision PCI (Video capture board), TrueVision Targa 2000 Pro PCI (Full-motion video board)

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