We’re a little (maybe, a lot) late with this one, but TI is hell-bent on making DLP last. Last year September, they announced their Darkchip 4 chipset. In their own words:
Using our current DLP chipsets, our customers have built some of the most competitive Home Theater products in the market, all with excellent picture quality,” said Lars Yoder, vice president, DLP Front Projection Business Unit at TI. “We are proud to introduce the next generation of the DLP chip for future product implementations. It will provide our customers even more flexibility for designing projectors that can meet the needs of a wide range of markets.”
The DarkChip 4 process was first developed for the high brightness and contrast picture quality requirements of the digital cinema industry, of which DLP Cinema® is the founder and uncontested world leader. The contrast improvements from DarkChip 4 are achieved by advances in mirror design lithography and other proprietary process changes.
While no products are available currently using this technology, you should be able to expect new products around Christmas ’08. With Samsung not making any new announcements, this seems like a pretty fair estimate.
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