DLPô-Based Products Awarded At CES

Four Products Win CEA Innovations 2001 Award

22-Jan-01

Four products using Texas Instruments' Digital Light Processingô technology won awards at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Panasonic PT-52DL10 large-screen television won ""Best In Show"" in the video category of the Innovations 2001 awards, while the Marantz VP8100 front projector, the Runco Reflection VX-7200c in-wall projector and the SIM2 Multimedia Grand Cinema HT250 home theatre system were also named to receive an Innovations 2001 award. ""To have helped these manufacturers win these awards is very exciting,"" said John Van Scoter, Vice President and Manager of TI's Digital Imaging division. ""At CES, we took the opportunity to showcase the broad range of home entertainment products currently available that have been enabled by DLPô technology, and the reaction we received was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. It seemed as if everyone at the show was talking about DLP - but it's great to get this independent confirmation of the contribution DLP technology is making to the home entertainment products of the future."" Innovations 2001 is the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) competition which honors product excellence in design and engineering in a range of categories. Entries in the Innovations 2001 Design & Engineering Honors Program were judged by a panel of 22 industry experts. Product evaluations are based on weighted criteria - value to user, aesthetics and contributions to the quality of life, as well as the product's innovative qualities. ""DLP technology, and the products it has enabled, have a long history of receiving some of the most prestigious awards that can be won,"" said Dale Zimmerman, Product Manager for DLP Home Entertainment Products. ""However, having these products receive this important recognition is particularly satisfying as it demonstrates that we are on track to establish DLP as a key technology in the consumer marketplace."" Today, TI supplies DLP subsystems to more than thirty of the world's top projector manufacturers, who then design, manufacture and market projectors based on DLP technology. There are now more than fifty products based on DLP technology in the market. Since early 1996, over 500,000 DLP subsystems have been shipped. Over the past four years, DLP technology-based projectors have consistently won some of the audio-visual industry's most prestigious awards, including, in June 1998, an EmmyÆ Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. At the heart of TI's Digital Light Processing technology is the Digital Micromirror Deviceô optical semiconductor chip. The DMDô switch has an array of up to 1,310,000 hinged, microscopic mirrors which operate as optical switches to create a high resolution, full color image.For more information about DLP, visit www.dlp.com.

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