Friday, September 10, 2010

Interchangeable DLP Projector Colour Wheels - 4 Segment or 6 Segment

Grant's Perspective on ... the new DLP projector that users can swap colour wheels.

The friendly people from Digital Projection International visited our Winnipeg office this week to demonstrate their newest innovations to us. I was impressed with the E-Vision series of projectors.

The E-Vision 600 is a 6,000 lumen projector (dual lamps) with 2,400:1 contrast and a native resolution of 1280 x 800. The projector features interchangeable lenses and colour wheels. While many projectors have interchangeable lenses allowing the projector to be optimally placed in a room, this is the first time I've heard of a projector being designed to allow the end user to quickly change the colour wheels.

The different colour wheels provide options for the user based on what is important to them in the next presentation. With the 4 segment colour wheel in place the projector produces 6,000 lumens. With a  6 segment colour wheel installed the same projector now produces 4500 lumens of light output. While the projector is not quite as bright there is better colour saturation, the user can decide which is more important.

The above image is a photo of the Digital Projection presentation and the image below shows the colour wheel module.


Thanks to Phil and Paul for making the trip to Winnipeg and the half day of demonstrations they provided.

Grant

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