The Optoma UHD51A UHD (4K) is a voice-enabled home theater projector that integrates with Amazon Alexa to enable projection to align with speakers, screen, lighting and smart home setting. The UHD51A comes with 2,400 lumens, 500,000:1 contrast ratio, and an RGBRGB color wheel and HDR10 with Rec.2020/DCI-P3 wide color gamut. It also features a built-in 4K media player and Android OS, along with a pair of HDMI 2.0 inputs with HDCP 2.2 support to ensure compatibility with the latest 4K video playback devices and game consoles with HDR at 60Hz refresh rates. It will be available in late first-quarter 2018 for an expected street price of US$1,699, said the vendor. The Optoma UHD51A will be shown with a Screen Innovations Solo portable smart screen, which features an intelligent, lithium-powered, rechargeable motor that enables up to 500 recharge cycles and over two years of use on a single charge. The Solo screen is completely wireless from both a power and control perspective, and has 12 color options, Optoma said.

NEC Display Solutions of America has announced the addition of two blue laser phosphor models to its PX series integration projector portfolio. The high-brightness laser projectors offer 20,000 hours of life built on mercury-free components and offer cinema-quality laser technology to the professional installation market. The 6,000-lumen PX602WL (WXGA resolution) and 6,000-lumen PX602UL (WUXGA resolution) single chip DLP laser projectors feature image quality utilizing unique NEC patented picture enhancements. Designed not only for corporate and education environments, these projectors are durable and produce a long-lasting image which opens up new applications in retail, digital signage, simulation and theme parks, the vendor said.

Osram Opto Semiconductors has introduced two new high-power versions of the Osram Ostar Projection for projectors with a brightness of up to 1700 lumen. The Osram Ostar Projection LEDs offer high luminous flux from the available chip surface. Between 1000 and 8300 lumen can be produced depending on the color and the LED version. An antireflex coated glass cover instead of the usual lens, together with external optics, ensures that the light is well bundled, the vendor said. The two new LEDs can be used in office projectors with brightness levels of up to 1700 lumen. At the heart of the product is a 2-square millimeter LED high-current chip based on thin-film and UX:3 technologies. The two LED versions contain two (P1W) or four chips (P2W) with a total luminous area of 4- and 8-square millimeter, respectively. The two new Osram Ostar Projection LEDs will be premiered at the 2014 International CES. Volume production is due to start in March, Osram said.