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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

Funny, the guy that wrote Spanky's link above more or less agrees exactly with me as to the number of people that attended the show. Well written, the above. Kal now has my article and pictures, it should be up shortly on the main site.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject:

Leo · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Curt, you said you stopped by the micro LED projector area. Did you see Microvision's scanning laser pico projector? Not very bright but should have infinite native on/off.

http://www.microvision.com/showwx/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0PLM3hh2c

http://microvision.sdh.cx/2008/04/microvision-pico-projector-big-screen.html

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject:

I did see that one, but at 10 lumens, it wasn't very practical, and you couldn't see squat at the show with all the ambient light around.

Note that in the Youtube video clip, the image was significantly smaller than the screen, which in itself couldn't have been more than 2' across.

While it (LED) most likely will come to market, the woman that I was talking to at Epson said that laser projection was dead in the water, and that was all the talk about 2 years ago on avs.

Leo · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Interesting, thanks. The Microvision laser projector might have enough brightness blended...we shall see.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

Leo · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

That little pj has a res of 848x480. What are you going to blend to? You can't even blend four of these to do high def. This looks like something good for the road warrior.

Leo · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Leo · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

Curt recently attended the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Nevada which took place from January 8-11, 2009. Read what's hot and what's not in his unbiased review of the show.

"My review isn’t like all of the glossy hyped reviews you might see online, I call it like I see it." - Curt

Find it in our Special Reports section.

Kal

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

Nicely done... but get rid of that stupid pix from 3 years ago. That damn thing still haunts me! Smile

(I have better pix that I can email you if you really want one up there...)

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject:

The picture of Curt is gone.... Wink

Kal

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks! that hurt my eyes!

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject:

You can still see the full picture on this page from the CES 2006 review. Wink

Kal

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

That still hurts my eyes! O&A aren't exactly fashion models either. Wink

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject:

LMASO

huggy · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject:

Do I detect some misconvergence in your eyes there curt Mr. Green

Dave

perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

Seems like with something like a laser projector, the geometry would be good enough that with some careful setup you might just be able to edge-to-edge align the images. You'd need to fabricate some good rigs to do really, REALLY precise adjustments of each one, with tiny little jack screws of some type possibly, and to hold them solidly relative to each other, but if their geometry is as good as should be possible, it might not be out of the realm of possibility to do.

Still, until I see a laser projector sans laser sparkle, I'm not sold. I saw an insanely high resolution laser PJ a few years ago at a military show, and while it was, well, insanely high resolution, the sparkle would drive me nuts in short order.