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Academy Board of Governors Bestows 2009 Scientific and Engineering Award to DLP Cinema Team for Color Accuracy
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posted Feb 22, 2010, 17:56
DLP's Award Winning Technology Continues to Offer Reliable and Full-Color Images To All DLP Products Ensuring the Best Image Possible
DLP's Award Winning Technology Continues to Offer Reliable and Full-Color
Images To All DLP Products Ensuring the Best Image Possible
(Los Angeles) On Saturday, February 20, the Academy Board of Governors bestowed
the 2009 Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) to four individuals
responsible for the color accuracy of Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN), DLP
Cinema® projectors. Acknowledged during a private award ceremony, D. Scott
Dewald, Greg Pettitt, Brad Walker and Bill Werner were recognized for their
contributions furthering the design and refinement of the Texas Instruments,
DLP Cinema projector, achieving a level of performance which enables color-accurate,
digital intermediate previews of motion pictures.
"As the technology leader in producing precise DCI compliant colors, superior
contrast ratios and the light output necessary to illuminate the largest auditoriums,
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is proud to recognize DLP Cinema
for this achievement," said Richard Edlund, Academy Governor and chair
of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "Texas Instruments, DLP
Cinema has redefined the movie going experience with an incredible picture."
"For the first time in the over 100 year-old cinema history, filmmakers
and audiences around the world are ensured they will see colors the way the
moviemaker intended every showing when enjoying a movie or content projected
with DLP Cinema technology," said Nancy Fares, business manager for Texas
Instruments, DLP Cinema Products.
The technology awarded the 2009 Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for
achievement in Color Accuracy is exclusive to DLP Cinema products; however,
Texas Instruments works with the world's leading manufacturers to deliver top-quality
and related technology to a variety of front projectors, pico projectors, HDTV
models and more. The highly reliable and full-color imagery in all DLP products
is achieved by the fast switching speed of the mirrors on the DLP Chip.
"Leveraging the Cinema technology offers our customers the ability to
manufacturer world class projectors for home, business and classroom use with
high reliability and superb color accuracy," said Roger Carver, business
manager for Texas Instruments, DLP Products.
The DLP Cinema solution provides the capability to light up theatre screens
as big as 100 feet and 3D screens as big as 75 feet, which has been a challenge
for competing technologies. As the technology provider offering solutions with
low operating costs, DLP Cinema remains dedicated to providing the cinema industry
with the widest variety of technology offerings to fit their growing needs.
DLP Cinema projection technology is installed in over 17,000 screens worldwide.
Today there are nearly 10,000 worldwide screens that offer DLP Cinema digital
3D technology which uses every pixel array in the frame for the brightest picture
unlike other technologies in the industry. Since last year's introduction, IMAX®
digital projection systems powered by DLP Cinema have reached a total of 155
locations worldwide.
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