Micro Pico Cinema
For manufacturers of projectors need to have used high-pressure mercury lamp projection to achieve proper projector brightness (ANSI lumens). In recent years, manufacturers have been able to reduce the amount of mercury, but not eliminating it. Unfortunately, the high pressure (200 atmospheres or more) of mercury lamps are still a danger to consumers if the replacement and handling for the environment if not disposed of properly.
Recycling facilities can recover the mercury and to achieve a recycling rate of up to 97 percent. Aware of the problem, some manufacturers of projectors such as Epson, have established their own recycling programs. However, despite legislative measures in many countries, the majority of light bulbs containing mercury will end up in landfills. The elimination in this way can result in the release of mercury into the environment and contamination of the food chain. Given that EPA has mercury, the most dangerous metal in the list of industrial pollutants (potent neurotoxin for humans), this is not a good result.
Fortunately, the solution is on hand as Luminus Devices, PhlatLight technology, a new light source that combines solid-state LED and laser technologies. This new lighting technology is 100 percent free of hazardous materials, including mercury and lead (RoHS). There are even environmental (and financial) the benefits of using this new technology as a lower projection lighting energy consumption and much longer service life of 60,000 hours (which is so realistic life of a projector) compared with around 2,000 to 3,000 existing mercury lamps high pressure.
Due to limited levels possible brightness, the first PhlatLight LED-based projectors have been ultra-portable pocket projectors and the European Parliament recently-PK-101 Optoma Pico Pocket Projector. PhlatLight LED chipsets as released in January 2009 and PT-121 PT-120 are now capable of brightness levels up to 3000 ANSI lumens, which is suitable for home theater projectors and Most business applications projector. The PT-120 and all other PhlatLight chipsets can be used with DLP, LCoS and LCD micro-display commonly used in projectors.
In January, Luminus Devices announced the market launch of the first consumer Full HD (1080p) DLP projector, the HT-8000 Delta Electronics, based in his PT-120 chipset PhlatLight LED. If you are looking for a new projector, keep a lookout for this new technology, since you can expect many new models will be launched during 2009.
