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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

2.0 OPPORTUNITY FRAMEWORK

2.1 Two Product Targets

2.1.1 High Performance (Better than CRT): 25" UXGA for $2,000

2.1.2 High Volume (Better and Cheaper than CRT): 17" XGA for $400

2.2 Comparison of CRT vs. RPM

2.2.1 Benefits and Features

2.2.2 Street Pricing

2.2.3 Total Available Market

2.3 Target Performance Specifications

2.3.1 Brightness, viewing angle, screen lumens

2.3.2 CR, Color saturation, gray levels

2.4 Target Prices and Costs

2.4.1 Street pricing

2.4.2 Factory pricing

3.0 COMPONENT TRADEOFFS

3.1 High Performance 3 Channel Design

3.1.1 High contrast and high gray levels

3.1.2 High definition

3.1.3 Lumen throughput

3.1.4 Component specifications

3.2 Low Cost Field Sequential Design

3.2.1 Field sequential

3.2.2 Lumen throughput

3.2.3 Component specifications

4.0 ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS COMPONENTS

4.1 Key Components

4.1.1 Miniature Imagers

4.1.2 Lamps and Power Supplies

4.1.3 Collection and Projection Optics

4.1.4 Screens

4.1.5 Electronics Interfaces

4.2 Analysis by Component

4.2.1 Current state of the art

4.2.1.1 Performance vs. targets

4.2.1.2 Prive vs. targets

4.2.2 Published improvements

4.2.3 Theoretical improvements

4.2.4 Projected and theoretical performance and price vs. target

4.2.5 Major suppliers

5.0 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

5.1 Summary of System Performance

5.1.1 Throughput: etendue, geometric efficiency

5.1.2 High Performance tabulated results

5.1.3 High Volume tabulated results

5.2 Current, projected, and limits of cost

5.2.1 Bill of materials by subsystem

5.2.1.1 MID Costs from MCG model

4.2.1.2 Lamps plus power supplies

5.2.1.3 Optics

4.2.1.4 Electronics

6.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

6.1 Critical Path Issues

6.2 Areas for Quarterly Monitoring

6.3 Further Studies

7.0 APPENDICES

7.1 Projection Technology

7.1.1 MID Technologies

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