With all the hype surrounding new solid state projection light sources namely laser and led it might seem that the use case for lamp based projection is quickly fading away into the annals of history.
Laser projectors vs lamp.
A modern day dispute amongst home cinema owners.
Most laser projectors start with blue laser light add yellow by aiming the laser at a phosphor that emits yellow when excited and then use filters to break up the yellow into red and green components.
However while led and laser projectors do offer some significant maintenance and long term cost benefits their upfront higher costs can.
Affordable laser projectors use blue lasers and a mechanical phosphor wheel to make necessary colors while very high end laser models use sets of red green and blue.
Disadvantages of laser projectors vs.
There s a lot of jargon thrown around in this dispute and the expectation of understanding all of it is high.
While there is normally a single lamp in projectors lasers have many individual laser lightbulbs there can be as many as 24 and often 48 individual bulbs for output.
Lamp vs laser projector.
However for the average consumer it is perhaps one of the most confusing debates.
Lamp based single chip projectors typically pass their white light source through filters most often presented as segments in a translucent.
Unfortunately high powered popcorn popping laser technology isn t widely available yet.
That of course is a critical decision in some companies and schools.