If you’ve attended a college or high school classroom in the last 10 years and  experienced something outside of a overhead projector, chances are that it was a low lit projector. Heck, even most fancy office board room meetings tend to go with projectors which offer low lumen count, resulting in a dim picture or blurred content. Wants the lights on for your meeting? Forget about it!

Enter the Sony Laser Light Source Projector, a world first which replaces the old bulb based technology with a 3LCD laser. This ensures that no bulb replacement is required in the projectors lifetime while offering a consistent 4,000-lumen.

As Robert Meakin, Business and Education Product Manager from Sony Professional Solutions Europe put it,

 This announcement marks an exciting shift in the market. Sony’s pioneering technology delivers on the promises made to our key partners to produce innovative products that perform and exceed market demands. Installation projectors not only have to reproduce the highest quality images but also be relatively maintenance free and eco-friendly. The Laser Light Source Projector delivers on all accounts being mercury free, offering an incredible brightness of 4,000 lumens, 

Offering a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, the Sony Laser Light Source Projector has up to 20,000 hours maintenance free time, thanks to its lack of bulb. For those in a hurry to get things started, the projector also has a “picture muting mode which allows the user to quickly start the presentation once the mute mode has been turned off. This feature enables the smooth presentation of images with high colour reproduction.”

No price or ship date has been announced at this time but we’ll bring more to you as Sony announces further details. Note the image above is not the Sony Laser Light Source Projector and instead is the VPL-CW275 which the unit will be based off of.

Discuss:

How has your experience traditionally been with projectors in schools and offices?

[Via Sony]