Technology is evolving quickly in this fast paced world. It’s been only few years where the technology being used in televisions are LCD, Plasma, LED, and OLED. Now, Silicon Valley has a newer technology present and this is the laser phosphor display technology. But could this really be the new technology of the future? Well, let’s see beyond these 3 words also known as LPD.

The most recent promising new unsettling technology comes from prism which is a confidentially financed startup with offices in Silicon valley, Massachusetts and India. It consists of 100 employees who are working for 5 years on laser phosphor display (LDP). With LPD, images are created when phosphors on the screen are stimulated. Instead of utilizing electrons, LPD technology uses a laser to hit the screen.

No backlight is needed for illumination because it works like a CRT. This leads to the best of all worlds: huge screens with great black levels. High definition 3D capable resolution, a power consumption that is very low, a viewing angle of 180 degrees wide, components that are completely recyclable, manufacturing doesn’t need any mercury to produce one product, a panel life of 65,000 hours long plus no burn in issues anymore.

Can anything get any better than this?

However there have been discovered problems. First is that the display is relatively deep, about 5.5 inches. While that would seem slim in any reasonable world, new TVs shown at Consumer Electronics Show were just a few millimeters in thickness.

A say from Stephen Shea about this new technology incorporated in television: “The picture quality, vividness and power consumption are incredible.” Stephen Shea is a senior associate with Shen Milsom Wilke which is an audio visual consulting firm. Though there have been speculations that the new TVs will come in huge sizes, Mr. Shea did not see a large screen display, but rather 30 small 25 inch units which were compiled to form a 100 inch unit. In addition the imagery had a slight bend in it having pixels that are not perfectly shaped.

It is still unknown whether Prysm will be able to find a solution to its entire problem and make a viable and cost effective superior displays but the company’s Chief Technology Officer says that they are confident that they can do it. He says, “The big guys are courting us, make no mistake about that.”

We can’t really judge this new technology until we see it with our own eyes. Let’s just wait for it to come in public and from then, we can have our own opinion about it. Let’s hope that this new technology will benefit us all and will be an advantage for us.