New School VS. Old School

[buffo]

im not sure about that Adam..
There are plenty of new technologies in the world of lasers popping up all the time.
and Kvant has 20w rgb rigs http://www.lasershow.sk/products/39-...color-spectrum

Did you look at the specs of that unit? 5 watts of blue. Only 4 watts of red, and at 650 nm to boot. The color-balanced output of that projector is probably somewhere around 10 watts maximum.

A single 15 watt Krypton-Argon mixed gas ion laser will have a higher balanced color output *and* superior color blending when compared to that "20 watt" projector.

the price of DPSS will continue to go down, diodes will get more powerful and large frames will eventually become extinct just like mainframe computers in business did.

Oh really? And what market forces, exactly, are at work to make this happen? Computers are *not* a valid analogy. They got smaller and cheaper because they're used in damn near everything these days. (And for the record, mainframe computers are not even close to extinct... Do your homework. Mainframe sales have actually INCREASED in the last decade.)

Bottom line - lasers above 5 watts have *very* limited uses, and most of them can be met with existing Yag and DPSS green technology. So there is no "killer app" driving the development of a 20 watt DPSS blue, or a 20 watt solid state red. And without a killer app, no one is going to spend the money to develop one.

Adam

[drlava]

Right now I have some hope that the laser TV tech will be useable after some modifications. TVs are a mass market, but the laser TV has stiff competition with OLED as a future TV technology.

[Lasernerd]

You have obviously never had an Oldsmobile 442 or a Camero Z28 or a 66 corvette or a Dodge Challenger or a Cuda


Style is not the way you pick you nose...Its where you put the buggar.

Hey i had a 73 Z28!!! fastttttttttttt!

[Diachi]

I need to agree with buffo, even though I've never seen a whitelight system in person, I've seen pictures of them running with a PCAOM and a nice set of scanners ( Tis a nice set up Rob , gotta love 168s ! ) and I've compared them to solid state RGBs. Something about the whitelight just always looked nicer ...

[Laserman532]

Hey i had a 73 Z28!!! fastttttttttttt!

See here is a boy that knows what im talkin bout. He knows where to put the buggar!!!



STYLE!!!!

[Lasernerd]

And well a little 69 Chevelle SS 454 double pumper 800 CFM,bored .30 over,shaved heads crager big ole duration cam.Oh a 64 Chevy II 327 450 hp straight front axle tubbed rears,2 speed slush box(PowerGlide),oh and also my beautiful beer brown 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 just smoooth lines!
I surely miss those Gems,,,dumb ass me selling them off

they are worth a mint!!!! I bought the Z in 79 for 4K$


Oh you can blame me for the fuel shortage the Chevelle got around 3mpg!

[MechEng3]

But can you keep a full RGB unit at your office? And keep it fully transportable in a couple of small cases like these?
500mw whitelight....ready with only two 120VAC outlets and any coffee table will do. Fantastic for presentations and other work related tinkering......

I still have my Mach1 Mustang.....classic 1969.....had her for over 20 years now.

[Laserman532]

does 500mw actually fall into the category of a real laser????

I hope you guys all know I am just kidding to keep a pointless thread alive...

I mean really is there ANY COMPARISON????

It is like saying...Would you rather have this beautiful blond and a case of beer, or a kick in the boys?

[LASERGUY]

There are some really weird people out there that enjoy the latter of the two... LOL!!!

[Lasernerd]

But can you keep a full RGB unit at your office? And keep it fully transportable in a couple of small cases like these?
500mw whitelight....ready with only two 120VAC outlets and any coffee table will do. Fantastic for presentations and other work related tinkering......

I still have my Mach1 Mustang.....classic 1969.....had her for over 20 years now.

thats where it works the best at,,in the office!