mitsubishi laservue projection tv: yet another expensive “world’s first” gadget
June 16th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
Mitsubishi’s L65A90 LaserVue 65-inch Rear Projection HDTV is the world’s first laser-powered television, and the company claims that its laser-lit DLP delivers twice as many colors as the now stupid and old LCD and plasma HDTVs. If I may quote the L65A90’s tech specs… “Twice the Color Over 200% of HDTV.” WOW. Twice and over 200% in one sentence? This TV must be made of crystallized awesome sauce.
The L65A90 is so awesome that people who don’t even own the thing are giving it ZOMG LAZERZ! customer reviews
The L65A90 is energy efficient too: it consumes only 135 W; Mitsubishi claims that that’s half of what comparably-sized LCD TVs would consume, and a mere third of what Plasma TVs gobble.
But its $7,000 USD price tag negates whatever customers will save off the electricity bill. Then again, if you’re rich enough to afford a $7,000 TV, I don’t think you care if it’s energy efficient or not. The important thing is that it’s a World’s First Something Something, and it has twice the color over 200%. Tell your butler to get three Mitsubishi’s L65A90s at Amazon; one for you, one for him, one for me.
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June 16th, 2009 comments (2): stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
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Pretty nice!
Thanks!
Todd D.
http://www.jordomedia.com/RSS/l_op=viewrss/lid=75989.html
I met a Mitsubishi sales rep two months ago, and he slipped me an announcement being given to key dealers. It says the current L65-A90 will never get a 73″. The series will be replaced by the A81 series (65″ and 75″), AND the Diamond A91 series (67″ and 75″).
The cut sheet I got was titled “2009 Laservue TV Product Overview.” According to this document, the A81 “step-up features” over the L65-A90 include: “Smooth 120Hz Film Motion,” “Advanced Video Calibration,” “New Cinema Mode,” “New JADE Activity Based User Interface,” and “Energy Star 3.0 Qualified.” The A91 has all those enhancements too, but adds: “Variable Smooth 240Hz Film Motion,” “ISFccc Advance Video Adjustments,” “Internet Media Ready,” “RS-232C,” “AMX Device Discovery,” and
“Brushed Metal Design.”
That’s all I know. I guess you can assume from this that the current Laservue is already obsolete. I wish Mitsubishi managers would understand that the key to their success is lots and lots of early adopters. Same for the Blu-ray DVD industry. They are trying to get maximum profit from early production. So is Blu-ray. All this is doing is causing people to hold off. That just might kill the whole deal.
ATTENTION ALL YOU MITSUBISHI MBAs: Learn from VHS vs Betamax; DVD vs VHS; CD vs Vinyl; Microsoft vs Apple. Price and market your Laservue so that middle America can afford one. We all know it is much cheaper to build a laser TV than it is to make a plasma or LCD. Don’t be greedy and you may change the direction of the TV industry. Your real success will come from market share, not early profit margins. Screw this up with dumb strategy in a terrible economy, and you’ll end up with just a few collector items out in the field that a handful of high rollers bought.
I want one. I WANT ONE BADLY!! But I refuse to be taken for a sucker.