Digital light processing: a new image technology for the television of the future

The advent of digital broadcasting brings with it many exciting opportunities, not the least of which is the opportunity to provide the consumer with visual images which are of a substantially superior quality to those provided by today´s technology. This paper describes a new technology-digital light processing^TM (DLP^TM), from Texas Instruments-which could become the dominant TV image technology of the 21st century. At its heart is the digital micromirror device^TM (DMD^TM): the evolution and operation of the DMD is described, and the key benefits of digital light processing are reviewed