Planar Launches Industry Leading Lampless LED-based Home Projection System
December 02 2009 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
In September, Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR), a worldwide
leader in specialty display solutions, unveiled its Runco
QuantumColor™ Q-750i and Q-750d lampless LED projectors to Runco’s
worldwide dealer network. Dealers have responded very positively
and have placed orders for hundreds of demonstration projectors for
their showrooms in the first few weeks after announcement.
“The QuantumColor projectors mark a new era in video projection
for the industry and for Runco. Lampless LED is the future of video
projection and Runco, through its innovation, is the leader in this
category,” stated Planar CEO Gerry Perkel. “The QuantumColor
projectors have it all – no lamp to replace, never-before-seen
colors, high reliability, and low power consumption. The industry
response is strong and our dealers have shown incredible support
for the product by booking orders in record numbers, making the ‘Q’
the best-selling demo product in Runco history.”
Traditional home theater projectors utilize a lamp for
illumination, which are expensive to replace, cause downtime and
only last about 2,000 hours. Collaborating for more than a year
with Texas Instrument’s® DLP™ business to create the technology for
Runco’s LED platform, Runco has engineered its QuantumColor
products to eliminate all moving parts in the engine, including the
mechanical iris and color wheel. Runco’s InfiniLight™ also boasts a
70-percent reduction in power consumption, a mercury-free
illumination system, and InstantOn™, which eliminates the need to
put the projector in standby mode. These breakthroughs combine to
create an energy-efficient solution with high reliability.
Beyond light-source innovation, Runco QuantumColor projectors
produce the largest color gamut ever available in front projection;
achieving and exceeding the Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers (SMPTE) standard for the first time in home
theater front projection. The QuantumColor projectors offer Runco’s
Personal Color Equalizer™ (PCE), which enables owners to create
color settings from the largest pallet ever available and to
project images exactly to their preferences. Runco delivers
flawless REC 709 Hollywood cinematic standard, Digital Cinema
Initiatives (DCI) standards, and even the vast Adobe RGB color
space. Runco PCE, which works just like an audio equalizer, allows
each color (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow) to be
dialed up or down to exactly match an owner’s specific taste – a
capability never before available.
To ensure color adjustment doesn’t spoil overall image
integrity, Runco created its Runco SmartColor™ (RSC) technology to
maintain image realism and accuracy. RSC is a proprietary
hue-compensation curve with gamut mapping, which maintains the
integrity and true-to-life representation of flesh tones. Without
this intelligence, flesh tones can look oversaturated, which
results in people who look unnatural or sunburned. The flexibility
of this incredible customizable image has been met with
overwhelming positive response in the custom home theater market
who have been using the same adjustment technique with high-end
audio for years.
“Runco has been innovating and changing projection technology
for years,” noted Joel Silver, founder and president of the Imaging
Science Foundation (ISF™). “An LED lampless light source is clearly
the next step in front projection, and Runco’s innovation in color
gamut and customization puts its QuantumColor projectors well ahead
of the pack.”
In addition to debuting its QuantumColor projectors to the
entire custom installation industry at CEDIA EXPO 2009 in
September, Runco demonstrated the Q-750 to media at its
headquarters in early November and at sponsored events in New York,
Los Angles, Minneapolis, Denver, and Portland.
Runco’s QuantumColor Series Q-750i features integrated video
processing, and the Q-750d is paired with Runco’s latest DHD
controller/processor. Both the Runco QuantumColor Q-750i, with an
MSRP of $14,995, and the Q-750d, with an MSRP of $17,995, are now
shipping.
For more information on the Runco QuantumColor projectors,
please visit www.HaveYouSeenTheQ.com.
ABOUT PLANAR
Planar Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:PLNR) is a global leader of
specialty display technology providing solutions for the world’s
most demanding environments. Hospitals, space and military
programs, utility and transportation hubs, shopping centers, banks,
government agencies, businesses, and home theater enthusiasts all
depend on Planar to provide superior performance when image
experience is of the highest importance. Founded in 1983, Planar is
headquartered in Oregon, USA, with offices, manufacturing partners,
and customers worldwide. For more information, visit
www.planar.com.
ISF is a trademark of the Imaging Science Foundation.
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