Shining the light on DLP

By Ken Turetzky

The first large-screen, digital multimedia displays driven by TI's Digital Light Processing (DLP) subsystem are on their way to market, and the DLP will play a role in the next U.S. television standard now under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C.

TI has established its presence in the potentially vast new industry with a list of strategic alliances for creation of digital projection subsystems. During December, TI and Nokia Communications Products appeared before the FCC to demonstrate Nokia's 50-inch, rear-projected, wide-screen television based on the DLP subsystem. The demonstration employed video produced with an MPEG-2 decoder TI developed with Nippon Television (NTV) to support the progressive scan format that will begin trials this April in Japan.

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