LCoS

What is LCOS television? LCOS stands for Liquid Crystal on Silicon. It is a kind of display technology that has aspects which are similar to liquid crystal displays and digital light processing projectors. Basically the LCOS TV technology involves putting liquid crystals onto a digital light processing style chip, making something that uses the characteristics of the two to form much higher resolutions with smaller numbers of crystals. LCOS television is less expensive by surface area to make than either DLP television sets or LCD television sets.

The LCOS liquid crystal thickness in LCOS technology is very thin, which makes it difficult to master the technology. As a result, when weighing plasma versus LCOS or LCOS vs LCD, more and more companies are finding that they have to give up their attempts at making LCOS television chips and focus on forms of technology that are easier to put together. Sony LCOS is one of the brands that has remained in the running (obviously, Sony has a large advantage because of its cash heavy position and can afford to continue developing their research into LCOS technology). Sony LCOS systems like the SXRD (Silicon X-Tal Reflective Display) are among the few commercial applications of LCOS technology that exist so far.

With LCOS 1:1 pixel mapping, long LCOS lamp longevity (lamps can be switched out as easily as in the case of DLP) and a straightforward programming syntax LCOS TV projectors such as one you might read about in a Canon LCOS projector review are being seen as the cutting edge of projection technology, as well as technologies such as Dila LCOS. What is Dila LCOS? It is an implementation of LCOS from the company JVC that has become among the most popular so far, and Dila stands for Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier. In many forms of LCOS technology organic compounds have been used, and these compounds can cause the structure of the LCOS to break down over time. JVC's Dila LCOS implementation does not use any of these organic compounds and as a result is considered stable over the long term and useful for a wide variety of display and projection tasks.

LCOS continues to draw attention because of the unusually sharp image that it delivers and the promise that it offers for reducing the costs per unit area of projection surface dramatically. The industry is looking forward to what will happen with LCOS technology!