Laser Projectors as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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884 words · ~4 min read
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you know it seems like lasers are everywhere in the tech scene these days
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you got your laser mice your Laser Printers your beams by flow you got
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those Dr Evil freaking laser beam jokes we keep making here on Tech Quicky in
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spite of the fact that that movie was like 15 years ago but there's a new use
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for lasers that hasn't become widespread
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in the consumer Market just yet but one
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that is already being deployed in commercial settings and may find its way
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into your home in the near future laser
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sex doll just kidding
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projectors which have some advantages that make them A Cut Above existing
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technology you see most modern projectors be they LCD or DLP use a
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bright light source usually a bulb to
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create white light which is then separated to create red green and blue
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pixels which are ultimately blasted at
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your screen and although this Arrangement functions well enough a lot
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of the light from the projector bulb has to be filtered out to produce only the
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red blue and green that is needed at any given time in fact less than
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1 of the light generated by the projector actually makes it onto the
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screen a higher-end laser projector on the other hand uses separate red blue
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and green lasers instead of white light
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which are combined by a lens into an image not only does this cut down
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tremendously on power consumption but
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the greater efficiency means that laser projectors can be made to be much
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brighter than their bulb based counterparts without needing more
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electricity than your Standard wall outlet can safely deliver lasers are
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also typically made to emit light at one
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only one precise wav length
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corresponding to a specific color of light meaning that it's much easier for
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manufacturers to build projectors with Arrangements of lasers at the correct
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wavelengths to enable wider color gamuts
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for more realistic and vibrant colors
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you can learn more about different RGB setups and how they produce color right
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about here and even moving beyond picture quality and efficiency laser
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projectors are a lot more convenient not
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only do laser light sources last much
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much longer than bulbs Epson for example is saying that one of its home models
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will last 30,000 hours which is long enough to
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watch every episode of The Simpsons over 130
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times they also don't need tons of time
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to achieve Peak brightness when you turn them on so no more waiting around for
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your projector to warm up oh and they turn off nearly instantly too of course
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at this time as with any new technology
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you'll be paying the dreaded early adopter tax epson's home model that I
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just mentioned is going for $8,000 at the time of filming I mean
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what kind of homes are they putting these things in with higher-end
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commercial models going for many times
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that additionally consumer focused laser
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projectors often uh cheat a little bit
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by only having two blue lasers one of
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which hits a phosphor that separates the light into red and green another concern
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is an effect known as speckle and if you've ever used a laser pointer you'll
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probably be familiar with this speckle refers to how the dot on the wall kind
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of shimmers if you look at it really close though well-made projectors should
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be able to minimize this effect which is a good thing too because the last thing
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