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He is drinking at the Harrow when he should be at the plough
World's highest resolution graphics projector tips up
THE WORLD'S highest definition display projector has recently been developed by a US company and will be exhibited for the first time at a scientific conference next week.
The projector displays a 33 megapixel resolution image with a 2:1 aspect ratio using a single column of 4,000 microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices, illuminated by a laser beam swept rapidly across a screen to create the illusion of a two-dimensional image. The projector has twice the resolution capability of the previous largest projector.
Evans & Sutherlin of Salt Lake City, Utah has developed the projector to market to planetariums, scientific visualisation environments, simulators and training companies that currently deploy multiple smaller projectors wired together to display very large images.
The company has not revealed the computing and graphics hardware devices it uses to drive its massive laser projector, but that information should be available at the device's unveiling at the 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference that will run from May 31 to June 5 at the Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. µ
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So what's the resolution?
1024 x 768
7680 x 4320
any1 fancy using that projector for gaming purposes?
your power point presentation will still bore everyone to death.
Yea and it will cost 50k+.
What i want is a reasonably priced proj with a usable resolution.. i.e. 1920x1200 for < 500 Euro.
Instead they still sell crap that works at 800x600.. and the cost of a resolution change (on lcd based projectors at least) is minimal (same area, just higher density, surely that is not a problem).
...is 8192x4096, according to the product datasheet (http://www.es.com/products/displays/ESLaser/resources/ESLP_Datasheet.pdf)
And BTW, the company name is Evans & Sutherland...
Its Evans & Sutherland
These were the guys who had mad boxes of ATi Radeon 9xxx chips in mega-crossfire for military simulators....24xAA
That'd be 16:9, fd. Unless the pixels are oddly rectangular, you fail.
They stated 2:1 aspect ratio. They also stated a single column of 4000 devices.
Since 8000x4000 is only 32 megapixels, they probably actually meant 4096 devices, which would give a resolution of 8192x4096, which is around 33.5 megapixels.
name recognition. previous comment directed at go, not fd.
"Yea and it will cost 50k+."
That would be cheap.. a 2K(2048x1080) cinema projector is something like 100K.
At 8192x4096 I would be surprised if its less than 150K.
that the same people who inspired the expression,"reading out of your hat," seem to constantly come up with cool new technology every month or so.
I guess it's the Kool Aid they serve them. ;)
Evans and Sutherland have been in the ultra-high resolution graphics business since the 1970s; I remember looking at some of their stuff back then.
They market primarily to military and military contractors.
"create the illusion of a two-dimensional image"
So it's normally only 1-D?
I know how they did it and you would s*** your pants if you knew the PC hardware they did it with. The res is 8192 x 4096 (8K x 4K) so the resolution is 32KxK = 33554432 pixels. And this is only a 60% jump since the AF already has a 5Kx4K = 20KxK version.
"the cost of a resolution change (on lcd based projectors at least) is minimal (same area, just higher density, surely that is not a problem)."
Yes, it surely -is- a problem. You need different connectivity (HDMI / DVI instead of just VGA and s-video), better electronics to drive the connectivity, better processing to control the panel, tighter tolerances in manufacturing, and last but certainly not least, VASTLY better optics - which are extraordinarily expensive. You know how a shit camera lens is $100 but a good SLR camera lens that can do reasonable zoom without distortion and clearly resolve a few megapixels is easily $1000+?
Yeah, well, there you go. Saying you can make an HD projector by putting a high res panel in an SVGA projector is like saying you can turn a Suzuki Swift into a Ferrari by putting a new engine in.