Two companies, Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass, have announced that they will cease production of CRT glass. It seems to be part of a growing trend to move away from CRT technology and towards LCD, DLP, plasma, and LCOS. Personally, I think it’s a little sad. CRT still gives the best picture quality.

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1080p seems all the rage these days, with good reason. It represents the pinnacle of the HD format, offering a 1920 x 1080 resolution, scanned progressively. With HD-DVD and Blu-ray coming down the pike, and the PS3 as well, 1080p interest is soaring. I even saw a website dedicated to 1080p (sorry, I forget the URL). So it is with much interest that we found out that TI is starting to sell true 1080p chips (forget wobulation, that’s so 6 months ago). The Action! model three 1080 features TI’s new 0.95″ 1080p chip.

The Action! model three 1080 fe The Action! model three 1080 features a 0.95in 1080p Texas Instruments DC3 chip and is claimed to have a highly impressive true contrast ratio of 7500:1. Furthermore, the projector features two lamps, two colour wheels and dual light formatters the new projector to help deliver a huge 2500 lumens light output.

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