DALLAS, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI)
(NYSE: TXN) DLP® announced today it has started shipping DLP
Cinema® Enhanced 4K chips to its licensees, Barco, Christie Digital
and NEC. Projectors with the DLP Cinema 4K chip are expected to be
installed in Q1 2011 and several industry demos are anticipated
between now and then by DLP Cinema licensees. With the availability
of this chip, DLP Cinema offers exhibitors the widest variety of
stable resolution options to suit their needs at any screen
size.
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"Regardless of resolution option or screen size, exhibitors can
count on DLP Cinema's award winning technology to deliver all the
light, to all the pixels, all the time," said Dave Duncan, business manager for Texas
Instruments, DLP Cinema Products.
DLP Cinema's 4K chip will enable its licensees to manufacture
the brightest and most energy efficient digital cinema projectors
in the world. In addition, all projectors utilizing the new
4K chip will be designed to meet the Digital Cinema System
Specifications developed by DCI, LLC for established image quality
and security. Currently, all DLP Cinema 2K projector models with
the next generation DLP Cinema electronics platform are DCI
compliant.
Exhibitors will likely install the DLP Cinema 4K solution to
light up theatre screens as wide as 100 feet and 3D screens as wide
as 75 feet, which has been a challenge for competing technologies.
All DLP Cinema projectors, regardless of the resolution, have the
leading attributes for which DLP Cinema products are known,
including precise DCI compliant colors, superior contrast ratios
including greater than 2500:1 and light output necessary to
illuminate the largest auditoriums.
"DLP Cinema remains dedicated to providing the cinema industry
with diverse platforms in both 2K and 4K solutions," said
Kent Novak, senior vice president
and general manager for DLP Products. "Texas Instruments will
continue to innovate and further the development of its DLP Cinema
2K chips which are indisputably the industry standard, including
the capability of upgrading the newest 2K projectors to 4K."
About DLP Cinema
DLP Cinema is a proprietary technology that delivers clear,
sharp, bright and accurate images to movie theatres globally. To
manufacture and market under the DLP Cinema trademark, technology
licensees, including Barco, Christie and NEC, must meet stringent
standards and guidelines meant to ensure the best possible
performance and picture quality. This digital picture and standard
of excellence ensures that a DLP Cinema movie screening looks
flawless and each showing is as perfect as the first with no
annoying scratches, tears or weaving that detract from the
moviegoing experience. For more information, or to find a DLP
Cinema theatre near you, please visit www.dlpcinema.com.
About Texas Instruments DLP Products
DLP display technology from Texas Instruments offers clarity
down to the most minute detail, delivering pictures rich with
color, contrast and brightness projectors for business, home,
professional venue, digital cinema (DLP Cinema®) and large-screen
HDTVs. Many of the world's top projection and display manufacturers
design, manufacture and market products based on DLP technology.
DLP is the only imaging technology with a legacy in digital cinema
where it set the industry standard demonstrated by the deployment
of DLP Cinema technology in more than 20,000 screens worldwide. At
the heart of every DLP chip is an array of up to 2.2 million
microscopic mirrors, which switch incredibly fast to create a
high-resolution, highly reliable, full-color image. DLP
technology's chip architecture and inherent speed advantage provide
razor-sharp images and excellent reproduction of fast motion video.
Since early 1996, more than 20 million DLP subsystems have been
shipped. For more information, please visit www.dlp.com or follow
DLP on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TI_DLP.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and
develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier,
safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI
innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in
more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com.
DLP and DLP Cinema are registered
trademarks of Texas Instruments.
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