SIM2 Grand Cinema MICO 50 LED DLP Projector
February 3, 2010 | Digital Projector, Portable Storage | Comments OffLED looks like it could well become the de facto system lighting for LCD TVs. There just seems to be no arguing with its combination of enhanced performance and extra ecological benefits. And now LED is also making a very strong case for itself in the projection world too.
At the low end of the scale LED lamps have made a whole new product category of ‘pocket’ projectors possible. But it’s at the high end where things have really got exciting, as evidenced by Vivitek’s first outstanding H9080FD, and now by Sim2′s jaw-droppingly good MICO 50.
At the heart of the MICO 50 sits a 0.95in, 1080p DarkChip4 Texas Instruments single-chip DMD a chipset you might well find in any any number of good quality DLP projectors. But it’s what feeds this chipset with its light that matters, namely three Luminus Phatlight (Love that name) PT120 LEDs one each for the red, green and blue color elements. Having three separate light sources Crucially removes the need for the color wheel system generally needed in single-chip DLP projectors.
This means that the MICO 50 should not suffer with the dreaded, color wheel-created ‘rainbow effect’, where stripes of pure red, green and blue can be seen over bright picture elements, or in your peripheral view. In fact, Sim2 reckon the effect of the switching-LED lighting is roughly equal to a 7x color wheel spinning seven times faster – 49x gold color wheel, if you will! As a result other color wheel problems, like color smear and blur, should also vanish without a trace. [via trustedreviews]
