What is it?
Liquid Crystal on Silicon is a display technology that rivals our more traditional LCD and TFT in TVs and monitors, and DLP in projectors.
When did this happen?
The technology has been around for nearly a decade, but has only now started to come out of its niche and into consumer markets.
What’s the big deal?
While other technologies have started out awful and have gotten better over the years, LCoS comes into the game at the top of its competitors—its quality surpasses LCD and DLP by a large margin.
How does it work?
LCoS works much like DLP, only using Liquid Crystal instead of the little mirrors that DLP uses to build the image. This makes it capable of much larger resolutions than LCD and Plasma.
Who’s been promoting it?
JVC has been manufacturing highresolution projectors since 1998, and big players such as Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba have started to join the club with their own HD TVs and projectors. We’re actually waiting for Hitachi to announce their muchawaited but indefinitelypostponed 70-inch LCoS HDTVs.
Why am I only just hearing about this?
While LCoS actually works out to be more economical when manufacturing TVs, there’s a catch. It’s an expensive technology to get right, and a lot of money has already been sunk for it. Still, we should see some more commercial
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