Texas Instruments Announces HD2+ DLP Technology

12-Sep-03

Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced at CEDIA 2003 the availability of HD2+ DLPô technology in products from a number of its customers. HD2+ DLP technology takes advantage of a new manufacturing process which enables projectors that feature it to deliver even higher contrast ratios. It also features dark video enhancement (DVE), made possible by changes to the color wheel to yield improved video performance in dark scenes. Projectors featuring HD2+ will ship during the fourth quarter of 2003.""Videophiles are almost unanimous in their belief that contrast ratio is perhaps the key metric in defining the sharpness and detail of an on-screen picture, and thus how lifelike the picture appears,"" said Bharath Rajagopalan, Business Development Manager, Consumer Front Projection at TI's DLP Products division. ""Projectors based on DLP technology already lead the market in this respect, and the announcement of HD2+ gives our customers even greater competitive advantage. At the same time, HD2+ delivers higher brightness and improved video performance. We're extremely excited by these new developments.""HD2+ DLP technology features a new version of the Digital Micromirror Deviceô (DMDô)--the semiconductor at the heart of DLP technology. A new fabrication process allows the onscreen image to appear more ""film-like""--and also enables projectors featuring HD2+ DLP technology to deliver contrast ratio improvements. The new manufacturing process also delivers some increase in brightness. Concurrently, a revised color wheel architecture will be implemented that will increase the number of bits used to process green light; the effect of this will be to reduce the subtle ""dithering"" which has previously characterized DLP performance in very dark areas of the projected image.""We're very excited by these most recent developments in DLP technology,"" said Scott Hix, Vice President and General Manager, Business Development, InFocus. ""DLP technology allows us to offer home entertainment systems that lead the market in picture quality--at very affordable prices--and now, HD2+ enables us to deliver even better solutions to our customers.""For more information about DLP, visit www.dlp.com.

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