Samsung DLP RPTV HLP5063W DLP RPTV part 1

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By Richard Fisher

When I purchased this display it was due to the support of the calibration community and the fact that Samsung was working with a few calibrating professionals making this product calibration friendly. This display can provide all the tools necessary for an accurate calibration that borders on critical viewing for the professional. You can get pretty close to the studio with this display and that says a lot considering the casual viewers price. It is simply a great value in pixel based display technology. Samsung cannot take all the credit for the end result as the heart of this machine is the new HD3 Texas Instruments DLP chip using a new technique that had the community rolling their eyes called wobulation. This display represents the possible sea change that stands before us for I do believe for the first time I can say...

Oh, that comes at the end. Needless to say there is so much that needs to be covered in this tale for it to all make sense that it is being split up into a series. See, the videophile community has been beating up on digital displays for consumer applications for a long time and for good reasons. So lets start with one of the major problems, the very heart of any digital display, the display panel. In this case the small Texas Instruments HD3 DLP chip.

There have been numerous problems with digital displays since their inception. One of the greatest challenges has been meeting the 2.5 - 3.2 screen heights as recommended depending on your source. This means simply take the height of the screen viewing area multiply that by 2.5 - 3.2 and that is the viewing distance from your forehead to the screen. For simplicity I work with 3. Until recently this was a very difficult viewing distance to obtain. While DLP barely squeaks by in front projection applications thanks to improvements in fill factor and black level by Texas Instruments the RPTV market has not, until now.

Welcome to the new HD3 and HD4 DLP chips from Texas Instruments, TI. These chips turn our concept of digital imaging on it