
The future of wireless TV: No screen
The company was the first to enter the laser theater TV market with the "no-screen" concept. Further, the product that was already selling in the mainland Chinese market has seen a 10,000-unit sales within just the first two months.
Hisense Group’s chief scientist Huang Weiping predicted: "No-screen TV" will become the future trend of the industry. A wall, or even a piece of cloth, might serve as the "screen". Hisense’s laser theater TV is just a small beginning and already a successful attempt. Large-scale popularization and promotion is just around the corner. Despite the fact that the costs remain high at present, the price of a 100-inch product amounts to only one-tenth of that of an LCD TV of the same size.
At CES Hisense demonstrated the VIDAA Max 100-inch Laser Cinema TV, a laser projector that is able to beam a 100-inch HDTV image form a short distance. It features a blue laser diode light source offering 25,000 hours of viewing enjoyment with no degradation of brightness or color and no need to recalibrate the picture settings as with traditional lamp based light sources. The laser light engine is coupled with the Texas Instrument DarkChip 3 Digital Light Processing (DLP) platform. The DLP is a digital mirror device (DMD) which utilizes over two million mirrors to produce stunningly sharp, crystal clear, high contrast FHD (1920×1080) images with no motion blur.
The Laser Cinema TV has the connectivity (HDMI, Component and Composite) required to view analog SD or HD and digital HD movies and shows from any source device. It connects to a PC via the built-in VGA connector and enables one to view digital media via the built-in USB ports. The built-in Wi-Fi supports WiDi protocol connects wirelessly to a home network or mobile device. The Laser Cinema TV also features 5.1 Dolby-DTS with eight-inch subwoofers as well as 5.8G wireless surround sound Bluetooth speakers.
The Laser Cinema TV boasts reduced carbon footprint and energy consumption during the manufacturing process and is designed to be more energy efficient than traditional lamp-based front projectors and competitive LED and laser models. It produces no mercury vapor and the use of the laser diode light source conserves energy using a fraction of the power required by traditional lamps.
