Sony Produces New LCD for Projectors

Any technology that can give projectors a crisper picture is something that I will certainly give a second look. Well, it looks as if Sony has answered that call and then some with their SXRD display panel technology. Works for me, but what is the price tag going to look like when the dust settles?

Sony has refined an existing liquid crystal display technology to come up with a display that it says will give projectors a crisper picture.

The Tokyo company said the display panels, which are based on High-Temperature Polysilicon LCD technology, offer a five-fold improvement in contrast ratio at around 2000:1 and 10 percent better light transmittance compared to panels currently used in most of Sony’s front projectors. Front projectors are used to project an image onto the front of a wall or white screen.

The LCD panels are able to deliver a picture of quality roughly between that available from standard projectors and that from Sony’s high-end Qualia 004 projector, which uses Sony’s proprietary SXRD display panel technology, said David Yang, a Sony spokesman in Tokyo.