3LCD Technology
3LCD projectors use three LCDs to crisply reproduce bright, natural images that are easy on the eyes. This makes our projectors perfect for displaying your photographs on the big screen.
A reliable, sophisticated technology with universal appeal, 3LCD is the world's most popular micro-display projection technology, providing high quality images for the most demanding business and consumer audiences.
How does it work?
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) projectors pass light through LCD panels about the size of a postage stamp; the LCD panel is made up of miniscule panels ('pixels') that can be clear, opaque or some semi-clear point in between. These pixels take the form of the image to be created, and the light passes through the clear or partly-clear areas in the same way that light passes through the clear or grey parts of a negative.
The projector's lens, in turn, expands the image and directs the light onto the screen or viewing surface. This enlarges all the tiny details and creates clear, detailed and beautiful images with ultra-smooth movement.
Epson's 3-panel LCD System
A projector with the Epson 3-panel Liquid Crystal Display (3LCD) system uses dichroic mirrors to break the white light from the lamp into red, green and blue light. Each of the three colours of light is then passed through its own LCD panel and then recombined by a prism before being projected onto the screen. The result is smooth-moving images with rich, full colour, since all three basic colours are included in each pixel of the projected image at all times.
Brighter images
With 3LCD projectors, you get beautiful colour in clear, defined images - even in a bright room, and you get more than double the brightness on colour luminance, compared to non-3LCD projectors. What’s more, 3LCD projectors can project bright, vivid images with a low output lamp.
3LCD projector Single panel system*
What makes 3LCD technology revolutionary?
- Bright images, even in a lit room. Double the colour luminance of non 3LCD projectors
- Natural, realistic images and colours, perfect for viewing photographs on the big screen
- Easy on the eyes without any colour break-up, or the rainbow effect you sometimes get with other projectors - e.g. if you were watching football and the ball was moving quickly, you get a rainbow behind the ball. This does not happen with 3LCD
- Very smooth video playback
- Reliable and long-lasting
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