Luminus Devices announced on June 19, 2008 a collaboration with Texas Instruments DLP Products (TI) that bring together the company's award-winning PhlatLight® LED technology with TI's DLP® technology bringing high-quality, long-lasting solid-state illumination to mainstream projection applications. The two companies will demonstrate the industry's first 1080p prototype home theater projection system using their combined technology during InfoComm 2008 taking place from June 18 – 20 in Las Vegas.
An ongoing collaboration between Luminus and TI has resulted in dramatic brightness improvements for DLP projection systems using PhlatLight LED illumination, with breakthroughs from TI in Digital Light Processing enabled by the PhlatLight LED digital light source from Luminus. These improvements are enabling several leading projection manufacturers to introduce DLP home theater projectors later in 2008. Further developments by TI and Luminus will lead to the introduction of DLP projectors for corporate and education markets powered by PhlatLight LEDs in 2009.
PhlatLight LED-based projectors have been previously developed and commercialized, but until today brightness has limited their use to lower brightness ultra-portable pocket projectors. The significance of this breakthrough is that it creates the first lamp-free projector for mainstream applications that delivers all the color and performance advantages without compromising brightness.
"DLP projectors illuminated by PhlatLight LEDs have significant advantages, offering superior versatility, reliability and convenience with instant start-up, stable brightness and color over the life of the projector plus they eliminate the need for lamp replacement," said Christian Hoepfner, vice president of products, Luminus Devices. "PhlatLight LEDs give DLP projectors a digital RGB light source delivering unprecedented image quality with a wider color gamut, accurate, saturated colors with higher contrast and deeper blacks."
Luminus has been manufacturing its patented PhlatLight LEDs for HDTV’s since 2006 and PhlatLight LEDs remain the only LEDs that are bright and efficient enough to replace arc lamps. PhlatLight LEDs are unique in that they are larger than conventional LEDs and designed to operate at significantly higher intensity. Projectors illuminated by PhlatLight LEDs produce more than fifty percent wider color gamut than the NTSC standard and the pure, primary colors sequentially pulsed at high speeds, provide ultra-fast color refresh for stable, accurate colors and a smooth picture with superior motion quality.
The prototype home theater projector will be demonstrated during InfoComm at TI's DLP booth, Central Hall #C909, June 18-20, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To schedule a meeting with a Luminus spokesperson at InfoComm or for more information contact Bill Keeler or Nicole Slein of Schwartz Communications at 781 684-0770 or luminus@schwartz-pr.com.
About Luminus Devices
Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications, including high definition TVs, video projectors, avionics displays, and lighting systems. Its patented PhlatLight® (Photonic Lattice) LED products are the brightest and most versatile solid-state light sources available today and are enabling innovative products and applications never before possible. Luminus Devices' headquarters and primary manufacturing facilities are located in Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
