Ed’s View - DLP
I first saw a DLP (Digital Light Processor)* demonstration in 1989 at a Society for Information Display (SID) conference in San Jose. The domo was given by Texas Instruments, Inc., the inventor of the DLP. Demonstrations at SID conferences represent the very cutting edges of new display technologies. Therefore, the demos are comparatively crude exhibitions of concept prototypes. However, in this instance the DLP demo was particularly crude. It exhibited a comparatively dim, low-resolution projected monochrome image with several black areas caused by "stuck" pixels. Of all the prototypes shown, DLP seemed to have the least promise. A few years later, at the urging of Dr. Jim Carnes, then Director of the David Sarnoff Research Center, I traveled to Washington, DC, to see another DLP demo at a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conference