Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1678

[P3D Ronald J Beck 840196 <rbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check out the following...

        http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/netsociety/docs/glossary.htm#dlp

to read more about Digital Light Processing (DLP) and the Digital 
Micromirror Device (DMD) or browse through...

        http://www.ti.com

for a review of all our stuff.

I've seen demos of the DMD and it's really pretty facinating.  And the 
color and clarity of projected images, both on a wide screen TV and 
projected on a screen is phenomenal.  The other interesting thing is that 
you don't see scan lines when looking closely at the displays.  You see 
little squares!  That's because each pixel is represented by a 
micro-mirror.

The possibilities are "endless".  The demo tape I saw even predicts that 
one day movie theaters will use the DMD to project movies and that studios 
will ship the movie to the theater digitally via fiber optics rather than 
bother with making film reels.
Who knows, maybe we will see "picture frame" TVs in the near future :-)

Ron Beck
Texas Instruments  - Dallas

photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> I just heard part of a radio ad for a new offering (hardware? 
> software? service? combination?) from Texas Instruments called 
> "Digital Light." The theme of the ad was "imagine this, imagine that, 
> etc.;" one of the "imagines" went something like "presentations with 
> the quality of 35mm film."  They went on to say that the "imagines" 
> are possible today with TI's "new technology" called Digital Light.  
> They gave a 1-888- phone number, but did not mention that more 
> information was available on the Web; hard to "imagine" it would 
> *not* be, of course, but I haven't gone looking for it yet.



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