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I4U: You thought plasma, LCD, OLED, DLP and CRT were all the choices you had in HDTV? Think again. Mitsubishi is adding a new color to the palette, in the form of a high-def TV that uses laser technology. Expect to pay a large premium, though, as always, for the increase in picture quality and environmental friendliness.

Mitsubishi’s LaserVue HDTV is slated for release fairly soon, well in time for the holiday season.

The difference over other high-def sets is that it uses an engine powered by laser lights, instead of standard TV lighting technology.

The LaserVue set will retail for $6,999 (nearly 5,000 euro) when it comes out by the end of this quarter. Mitsubishi promises that it offers a sharper picture, more defined colors and greater power efficiency. It will use approximately one third of the power that a similar plasma HDTV would require.

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TVPredictions.com: Mitsubishi has revealed that its Laser LCD HDTVs will come in 65-inch and 73-inch sized models later this year.

The company, which is now billing the sets as ‘LaserVue,’ said they will revolutionize the high-def industry by offering crisper pictures, more vivid colors and 3-D viewing capability.

The 65-inch set will ship in the third quarter of this year with the 73-inch model to soon follow.

Mitsubishi has not revealed pricing on either set, but considering the screen size, they could run into the thousands of dollars.

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Engadget: We got a first glimpse of Mitsubishi’s brand new rear-projection-ish laser-based TV tech, LaserVue, back at CES, but now the sets are just about primed for action, and should be hitting store shelves, as previously noted, Q3 2008.

LaserVue will debut in 65-inch and 73-inch, with the 65-inch version hitting the scene first. Mitsubishi is still pretty coy about what exactly makes the technology tick — other than the “zomg, lasers” aspect — but is quick to point out the 200 percent color gamut that LaserVue provides, more than twice that of most traditional HDTVs.

The sets also run at 120Hz, and boast 500 nits of brightness. Head to head against LCD and plasma sets we had trouble finding the differences, other than the color depth. Have no fear: the blacks are black, the brights are bright, and the viewing angle puts DLP to shame. That said, we’re hearing price points are going to be more comparable to plasma and LCD than DLP, so Mitsubishi might have its work cut out for it in convincing consumers that these 10-inch thick TVs are the way to go.

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