JVC Announces Preliminary Specifications For New ""Super Contrast"" D-ILAô Projector

Super Contrast And High Brightness Ideal For Digital Cinema Applications

12-Mar-01

JVC Professional Products Company announced an exciting new addition to its line up of D-ILAô - based projectors, the DLA-M5000SC ""Super Contrast"" D-ILA Projector.  This powerful large venue projector is ideal for digital cinema, staging/rental, post production and digital dailies screening installation, and HDTV applications such as theme parks, museums, and other specialized applications requiring high resolution imaging. It is expected to be available at NAB in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 23-26, 2001, and was displayed at ShoWest. In releasing preliminary specifications, JVC noted that this super contrast projector will offer true SXGA resolution, a 1000:1 contrast ratio and superb brightness of 5000 ANSI Lumens, making this projector the ideal unit for digital cinema applications. Incorporating JVC's breakthrough D-ILA liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) imaging technology, the DLA-M5000SC is delivering unprecedented sharpness and clarity on screens up to 25 feet across. The DLA-M5000SC projector boasts a rugged design for easy installation virtually anywhere, and is capable of being stacked for screens larger than 25 feet. Based on JVC's award-winning Direct-Drive Image Light Amplifierô (D-ILA) technology, the new DLA-M5000SC is one of many upcoming product announcements from JVC aimed at the growing digital cinema and related markets.Proprietary D-ILA TechnologyThe D-ILA device, JVC's own development, is a unique 0.9-inch diagonal reflective CMOS chip which is addressed digitally by the source signal. Packing 1.4 million pixels onto the chip with a tiny 13.5 micron pitch between pixels produces a very smooth, silky image. By minimizing the space between pixels, the D-ILA's high-density structure and extra high aperture ratio of 93 percent effectively eliminates stripe noise and produces crisp, clear images from edge to edge, with well-defined details and vivid, true-to-life colors. The driving IC substrate is located behind the liquid crystal layer, making it possible to achieve much higher levels of brightness and resolution than with conventional devices. Another advantage of the D-ILA device is the vertical alignment (""homeotropic"" structure) of the liquid crystal layer. This ensures that projected images have extra high contrast and makes it possible to accurately reproduce even subtle gradation differences between the lighter and darker parts of the projected image. JVC Professional Products Company, in cooperation with JVC's Digital Image Technology Center located in Carlsbad, California, has developed a procedure designed for digital cinema presentations, known as ""Video Gamma Profile,"" where black level and color temperature are optimized to display a more ""film-like"" viewing experience while maintaining maximum light output and maximum contrast. This procedure is characteristic of the continuing advancement of JVC's D-ILA projector products offered to the broadcast, professional, and home theatre viewing audiences worldwide.JVC Professional Products Company participated in a technology demonstration of a new QXGA (2048 x 1536) digital cinema projection system at ShoWest. For more information about JVC Professional Products Company, visit www.jvc.com/pro.

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