Silicon X-tal Reflective Display
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SXRD (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) is Sony's proprietary variant of liquid crystal on silicon, a technology used mainly in projection televisions and video projectors. In the front and rear-projection television market, it competes directly with JVC's D-ILA and Texas Instruments' DLP. Sony has discontinued the production of all of its rear-projection televisions, including those which utilized SXRD display chips, in favor of flat-panel sets utilizing LCD and OLED displays. Sony still produces SXRD front-projectors, however.
While capable of producing stunning high definition picture quality, Sony has been plagued with significant problems mastering the technology of mass producing the rear projector version of these displays. There has been an unacceptably high failure rate on the optical blocks of these displays which results in the need to repeatedly replace the optical blocks on a significant percentage of these displays. Sony previously settled a class action lawsuit filed by owners of the first generation of the SXRDs, and apparently was unsuccessful in correcting this defect which has resulted in Sony ceasing production of all SXRD rear projector sets and having new class-action lawsuits filed by owners of most the second generation sets. The second generation class action suits were recently filed and are pending in Federal Court.
The following SXRD-branded products have been released or announced:
| Year | Size | Series and model numbers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2000 | A3000 | XBR | Qualia | BRAVIA SXRD | ||
| 2004 | Projection | -- | -- | -- | 004 | -- |
| 70" | -- | -- | -- | 006 | -- | |
| 2005 | 50" | -- | -- | KDS-R50XBR1 | -- | -- |
| 60" | -- | -- | KDS-R60XBR1 | -- | -- | |
| Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- | VPL-VW100 | |
| 2006 | 50" | KDS-50A2000 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 55" | KDS-55A2000 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 60" | KDS-60A2000 | -- | KDS-R60XBR2 | -- | -- | |
| 70" | -- | -- | KDS-R70XBR2 | -- | -- | |
| Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- | VPL-VW50 | |
| 2007 | 50" | KDS-50A2020 | KDS-50A3000 | -- | -- | -- |
| 55" | KDS-55A2020 | KDS-55A3000 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 60" | KDS-60A2020
KDS-60A2010 |
KDS-60A3000 | -- | -- | ||
| 70" | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- | VPL-VW60 VPL-VW200 | |
| 2008 | Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- | VPL-VW40 VPL-HW10 VPL-VW70 VPL-VW80 |
| 2009 | Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- | VPL-HW15 VPL-VW85 |
References
- ^ Gizmodo report – Bye Rear Projection: Sony says goodbye to rear projection TVs. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
External links
- SonyStyle VPL-VW40 product page
- All Engadget SXRD articles
- Sony Professional SXRD Site
- Sony optical block problems site
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