MCG Reports
Opportunities for Rear Projection Monitors
by Charles McLaughlin | chuck@mcgweb.com | Telephone: 650 323 7155
and Dave Armitage | darmit7644@aol.com
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Table of Contents
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |
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2.0 OPPORTUNITY FRAMEWORK |
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2.1 Two Product Targets |
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2.1.1 High Performance (Better than CRT): 25" UXGA for $2,000 |
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2.1.2 High Volume (Better and Cheaper than CRT): 17" XGA for $400 |
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2.2 Comparison of CRT vs. RPM |
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2.2.1 Benefits and Features |
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2.2.2 Street Pricing |
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2.2.3 Total Available Market |
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2.3 Target Performance Specifications |
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2.3.1 Brightness, viewing angle, screen lumens |
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2.3.2 CR, Color saturation, gray levels |
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2.4 Target Prices and Costs |
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2.4.1 Street pricing |
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2.4.2 Factory pricing |
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3.0 COMPONENT TRADEOFFS |
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3.1 High Performance 3 Channel Design |
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3.1.1 High contrast and high gray levels |
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3.1.2 High definition |
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3.1.3 Lumen throughput |
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3.1.4 Component specifications |
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3.2 Low Cost Field Sequential Design |
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3.2.1 Field sequential |
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3.2.2 Lumen throughput |
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3.2.3 Component specifications |
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4.0 ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS COMPONENTS |
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4.1 Key Components |
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4.1.1 Miniature Imagers |
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4.1.2 Lamps and Power Supplies |
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4.1.3 Collection and Projection Optics |
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4.1.4 Screens |
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4.1.5 Electronics Interfaces |
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4.2 Analysis by Component |
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4.2.1 Current state of the art |
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4.2.1.1 Performance vs. targets |
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4.2.1.2 Prive vs. targets |
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4.2.2 Published improvements |
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4.2.3 Theoretical improvements |
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4.2.4 Projected and theoretical performance and price vs. target |
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4.2.5 Major suppliers |
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5.0 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE |
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5.1 Summary of System Performance |
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5.1.1 Throughput: etendue, geometric efficiency |
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5.1.2 High Performance tabulated results |
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5.1.3 High Volume tabulated results |
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5.2 Current, projected, and limits of cost |
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5.2.1 Bill of materials by subsystem |
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5.2.1.1 MID Costs from MCG model |
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4.2.1.2 Lamps plus power supplies |
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5.2.1.3 Optics |
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4.2.1.4 Electronics |
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6.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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6.1 Critical Path Issues |
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6.2 Areas for Quarterly Monitoring |
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6.3 Further Studies |
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7.0 APPENDICES |
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7.1 Projection Technology |
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7.1.1 MID Technologies |
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