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Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) and projectiondesign announce their collaboration in developing ultra-high brightness projectors which are equipped with the highest levels of UHP™ lamp powers.
This cooperation between the two companies has resulted in a 3-chip DLP®, dual 400W lamp projector prototype that produces an impressive 10.000 ScrLm brightness.
With this milestone, Philips and projectiondesign demonstrate that UHP™ based projectors have the potential for applications requiring extreme high brightness such as high-end e-Cinema, events, visualization and simulation.
“We enjoy a strong and healthy working relationship with Philips DPL” says Anders Løkke, International Marketing Manager at projectiondesign. “The result of both companies working together will be impressive and the benefits of high brightness, more compact projector design, lower running costs will be passed on to the user and installer.”
Philips UHP™ lighting technology is commonly used for a wide variety of projection applications ranging up to 6000 Lm. Higher brightness applications (> 5000 Lm) are traditionally served by Xenon lighting technologies. “With the development of UHP™ based 10 kLm projectors, Philips UHP™ technology will now enter Xenon dominated application areas” said Ruud van der Zanden, Senior Product Manager for High Power Solutions within Philips DPL.
UHP™ technology is far superior to Xenon technology due to lamp efficacy being higher for UHP™ than for Xenon and a similar brightness can be reached with 40% less power. The total costs of UHP™ based projectors will also be lower as a result of the higher lamp efficacy, compact size and lower heat dissipation. As a result the flexibility in projector design will be increased drastically.
Philips DPL intends to have the new product platform prepared for a wide power range (up to 400W) enabling more design flexibility and will bring this new milestone in UHP™ lighting technology to the market during the course of 2009.
UHP™ (Ultra High Performance) is a trademark of Royal Philips Electronics, registered in the Netherlands and/or other countries.
DLP® (Digital Light Processing) is a Registered trademark owned by Texas Instruments, representing a technology used in projectors and video projectors.
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