JVC's "Slim HD-ILA Optical Engine" reduces rear-projection TV thickness by 40% Audio/Video / Victor/JVC Posted by zmcnulty on Oct 02, 2006 - 04:57 PM There's some new technology from JVC called "Slim HD-ILA Optical Engine" that allows rear-projection TVs to have a drastically reduced thickness, to the point that they can be mounted on a wall. The new engine has allowed JVC to reduce the thickness of its 56" rear-projection TV from 47cm to about 27cm. The new technology is pretty heavy on technical details, but basically, the use of a concave mirror allows the light coming from the projector to be more focused than when using a convex mirror. This in turn means the projector can be closer to the mirror, allowing for a smaller body size. More details are in JVC's English press release [1]. A picture of a potential model appears below. DLP, projector This article is from TechJapan   http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1363 Links in this article   [1] http://www.victor.co.jp/english/press/2006/slimfunction.pdf