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Author Topic: TI Announces 2K DLP Chip Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-05-2003 08:58 AM                     Click Here Debut was at Showest 2003.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 03-05-2003 09:20 AM                     The 2K chip was shown in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. I saw the unit in operation during rehearsals on Saturday and even though not all available pixels are on display due to lack of a proper lens, the end result on the screen is a great improvement. The ShoWest demostrations will include a split screen section with the latest Harry Potter movie being shown with the TI unit and a Kinoton FP25E projector....the new 2K unit is housed in a smaller chassis than the current 1280 DLP now in use. Richard Fowler Kinoton America Inc.  |  IP: Logged Geoffrey Weiss Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 03-05-2003 10:00 AM                     "...a logical outflow of the collaborative process that has characterized the development of DLP Cinema™?" logical outflow? Where did this guy learn to speak English? We could do a whole thread on "business-speak." A friend of mine plays "business-speak" bingo. Every phrase--"prioritize, maximize, etc." is on the card and eventually someone gets bingo.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-05-2003 02:03 PM                    Clever how they are positioning this as something needed for the largest screens instead of acknowledging that 1280 pixels per line was simply not good enough. Of course that would involve admitting that all those very expensive boxes (and probably the other expensive boxes that drive them) are now obsolete after just a few years.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-05-2003 05:15 PM                     The 2K announcement is one positive step. However, I don't believe 2,000 lines of resolution is quite good enough for commercial movie theater screens, particularly large ones. We can already see apparant flaws in 2K CGI renderings on a lot of 35mm releases. Still, at least the DLP technology can move past the really crude 1280 X 1024 standard. What is the exact pixel layout of the new 2K chip? I didn't see that listed in the TI press release. Also, is the new 2K DLP chip 16x9 native? Or is it still 4:3 based? It is also encouraging to hear the new 2K DLP chip fits on a smaller chassis than the old chip. That will help drive down costs and make a lot of computing and home theater projection products less expensive. I would say the DLP chip would have chance in improving the ridiculous flat screen TV market, where virtually none can offer a 1920 X 1080 native pixel display. This new 2K chip would seem able to fill the bill. However, TI would need to work fast because other technologies will be impacting the flat screen TV market (such as OLED and FED methods).  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-05-2003 08:25 PM                        quote: "...a logical outflow of the collaborative process that has characterized the development of DLP Cinema™?" logical outflow? Where did this guy learn to speak English? TI lets (forces) their product Engineers (to) write the documentation for anything that the average consumer isn't going to read. So anything technical gets written by someone who could care less about documentation -- many of these people probably don't speak too much in everyday life. Oddly, the phrase / wording makes perfect sense to me.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Haney Master Film Handler Posts: 265 From: Cupertino, CA, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-05-2003 11:10 PM                     Took 'em long enough. Now they should give those "over 150" theaters that have the old, obsolete chips free upgrades. While TI is busy building mindshare with annoucements like these, Kodak's digital cinema initiative is still a no-show. Is it ever going to move beyond the prototype stage? I would like to see some competition. Also, like Bobby, I would like to see some more technical details about this chip. What is the physical aspect ratio of it? Are the pixels still square? What is the exact resolution? Does it still require anamorphic optics for both 1.85:1 and 2.39:1? What is the contrast ratio? What is the pixel area coverage?  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2003 02:36 AM                        "outflow" was the reason given by the government environmental guys that all the septic tanks on our strip of beach had to be repositioned after a hurricane in the 80s.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-06-2003 02:50 AM                        Are you saying that TI is in' us?  |  IP: Logged

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