Texas Instruments' BrilliantColor technology, a formerly high-end color processing technology for DLP-based projectors and displays, will be available in mainstream projectors by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday at the InfoComm conference and trade show here. (DLP stands for Digital Light Processing, also invented by the company.) Six projector models with BrilliantColor were announced at the show--including units from Mitsubishi and Optoma--with more than 70 projectors expected to ship with the technology by December 2007.

According to Texas Instruments, its new BrilliantColor-equipped DDP2230 chip set can produce a wider color palette by blending up to six different colors instead of three. The chip set uses a six-segment color wheel to reproduce images, with cyan, magenta, and yellow segments in addition to the standard red, green, and blue.

Texas Instruments first introduced BrilliantColor two years ago; the color processing technology later debuted in DLP televisions and in expensive home theater projectors. Now the algorithms are being incorporated across chip sets aimed at mainstream use.
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