CES 2005 - The Last Word

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Texas Instruments had a pretty large stand on the show floor, showing off the benefits of Digital Light Processing technology. Personally I’ve always liked DLP as a projection technology, and most of the early issues like the rainbow effect that plagued video playback seem to have been overcome.

But DLP is no longer just a front projection technology, it’s now a valid and very attractive rear projection technology as well. Samsung had a stunning looking DLP projection TV on the TI stand running High Definition video at 1080p. If you’ve never seen HD video displayed at 1080p, I really can’t describe to you how good it looks, but one thing’s for sure, High Definition TV can’t get over to Europe fast enough in my opinion.

Last year at CES I looked at an InFocus DLP projection TV that was so slim, you could hang it on a wall. This year InFocus again had a super-slim DLP projection TV on show, and it hasn’t lost any of the impact from last year.

But the coolest thing on the Texas Instruments stand was a truly tiny DLP projector from Mitsubishi. There was a time when carrying a projector and a notebook with you all day would leave you in hospital with a hernia, but you’d hardly notice if you were carrying this one in your bag.

But Mitsubishi wasn’t the only company at CES with a tiny DLP projector on show. InFocus had an even smaller device on its stand, although it couldn’t throw an image as large as the Mitsubishi unit. InFocus has managed to get its projector so small by using LEDs as the light source, instead of the traditional bulbs.

For more information about DLP go to www.dlp.com.

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