Texas Instruments Wants DLP in Cinemas and in Your Phone
If you have gone to your local cineplex lately, you may have started noticing some interesting DLP splash screens being played right before all those advertisements for popcorn and soda. Texas Instruments has been on an aggressive campaign pushing the benefits as well as the potential of DLP technologies. One of their campaigns is in the digital cinema market where they recently announced that over 3000 digital cinema screens are now using DLP projectors; up from only 1000 screens ten months ago. Manufacturers like Christie, Barco, and NEC are leading the DLP digital cinema market and are replacing the old film projectors with new HD digital projectors. The next time you go to the movie theater, check to see if they’re using a DLP projector and if they are, see how different it is from your movie experiences in the past.
Texas Instruments isn’t only looking to the cinema to push DLP’s benefits, though. Last week we mentioned Microvision’s PicoP cell phone projector, and now Texas Instruments have announced their own cell phone projector. Using a miniature DLP chip and three different colored lasers, Texas Instruments hopes to project DVD quality images from your cell phone onto any surface. While only in development stages, they do have a working prototype of their cellphone projector and intend to deploy it commercially shortly.