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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
I hope not either. I'm wanting the 67" LED DLP, and hopefully will get it this spring. The market needs them to stay. It needs the competition. It's the only way to get a bigger screen size, at a reasonable price. I could SLAP Sony's and JVC's management people for dropping the LCoS line of tvs.
Send Samsung an email, and ask them.............
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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
Same here. Hope Samsung keeps producing them (at least for one more year).
_Man_
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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
I think Samsung will still produce DLP rear-projection TV's but they will be 61" and bigger models using LED lamps and no mechanical color wheels. For 56" in smaller, they will be LCD panels, increasingly switched to LED backlighting (very necessary because California is threatening to impose a law starting in 2011 that requires consumer electronics to be more energy efficient).
Raymond in Sacramento, CA USA
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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
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I cannot imagine they would change a lot between model years.
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DarkChip4? I have no idea if they will switch to that (from DC3) for the DLP chip (should they continue to produce RPTVs), but that's certainly what many DLP fans are hoping for (and were hoping even for the current series during the early going).
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Originally Posted by Ray Chuang
I think Samsung will still produce DLP rear-projection TV's but they will be 61" and bigger models using LED lamps and no mechanical color wheels. For 56" in smaller, they will be LCD panels, increasingly switched to LED backlighting (very necessary because California is threatening to impose a law starting in 2011 that requires consumer electronics to be more energy efficient).
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That would be perfectly fine w/ me since I'm mainly looking for a circa 60" LED set anyway (unless I decide to go a bit bigger like 67").
I wonder if the switch to LED backlight for LCD panels would give them some incentive to continue to produce larger LED-based DLP RPTVs. Would they be able to use the same LED parts for both (and cut production costs that way)?
_Man_
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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
Actually, I think the next frontier for home video will be projectors, since that's the easiest way to go to beyond 70" (diagonal) viewing sizes. Don't be surprised that we see Samsung start pushing 1080p DLP front projectors with high-intensity LED light source that would project a bright, high quality picture on a white screen as big as 120" (diagonal).
I'm not surprised that Samsung is no longer updating their DLP line--their current models--especially the LED light source models--are superb units, and besides, not that many people want anything beyond 61" (diagonal) size RPTV's.
Raymond in Sacramento, CA USA
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Re: Samsung Done With DLP Starting in 2009?
The market has changed.
Those who wanted large screen HDTVs bought DLP or LCOS or LCD models years ago and are enjoying them.
The people in the market now are simply replacing their old 32" crt direct view sets and simply don't care about the larger screen sizes. 50-52" seems to be huge to most of these folks so anything larger just isn't going to sell, nor is anything that can't be hung on a wall, usually over a fireplace. To use the hated expression, J6P has taken over the market and wants neon-bright cartoonish images above all else.
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