Acer Announces Projector That Uses Laser-based Light

The benefit is a much longer lasting light source of up to 20,000 hours, instead of the usual 3,000 hours of a projector lamp.

Acver said that the K520 comes with the company's EcoProtection power management feature that reduces power consumption by up to 90 percent.

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  • digiex
    Laser LED are more crisper than conventional white LED.

    Projected price of the projector?
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  • __-_-_-__
    laser projector... ouch... better be careful where you point at. Turn the power to max and you make a hole in a wall.
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  • ProDigit10
    casio slim line is one.
    This one will most likely be lower quality.
    4/3 is not as good as 16/9
    2000 lumen is not very much. 100k contrast ratio is insane though!
    Good for the bedroom, and 6-12 seat pitch dark living room, to project a 86cm diag screen on the wall; nothing more.
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  • "2000 lumen is not very much." ???????
    Are you kidding ?
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  • Pyree
    ^agree

    can cause instant temporary blindness
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  • alidan
    ToxicCandy"2000 lumen is not very much." ???????Are you kidding ?
    it depends on the projector, how big you want to porject it, for the most part the more the better, but 2000 seams to be a decent number projector wise, no reason not to get it because of that....

    however for me, i would require 720p at least before i consider it.
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  • Rids the use of a dynamic iris for dimmable light source - the laser. F'ing oarsum! EpicContrast for master dlp winnage!
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  • archange
    That is so obvious. Why doesn't everybody use laser lighting nowadays? I mean, BMW going to use it on their new model:

    http://technabob.com/blog/2011/09/06/bmw-laser-headlights/
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  • sunflier
    Will I need to worry about burn in or etching on my wall?
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  • freggo
    With this you do not need a screen saver but a Wall saver !

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