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Arasor and Novalux unveiled a laser TV prototype in Australia recently. See media coverages 1, 2. The following comments on the advantages of Laser TV are quite precise and understandable for public (from news.com.au).

According to Arasor, Laser TV has a number of advantages over plasma which includes being a third lighter and using 25 per cent less power.

Plasmas, which are filled with phosphorous gases, on some occasions have been known to suffer ‘burn in’ when displaying static images for extended periods - a problem Laser TV owners will not have to worry about.

Laser TV can also display fast moving images without ghosting or image smearing, a drawback for some LCD screens with slow response times.

LCD and plasmas can produce about half the colour gamut, which is the amount of colour which can be viewed by the human eye, whereas Laser TV can produce up to 90 per cent.

Jean-Michel Pelaprat, CEO of Novalux, the company who has co-designed the laser components of the TV says the technology could also find its way to mobile phones and laptops as a way to project an image on a wall.

As I understand, in their partnership Novalux makes near infrared semiconductor lasers; and Arasor converts these lasers to visible. Neither of them make TVs. They will just supply the laser and projection chips. “You should think of us like Intel or AMD making the heart of your Laptop, but it’s Dell that is the laptop maker.” Larry Marshall, the co-chairman of Arasor, said.

Mitsubishi is another big player in laser TV. Both of them said that they will release laser TV in 2007.

cross posted at laser web

Update: 26/10/06
It seems they face some problem now.