Philips' latest UHD TV has great colors thanks to lasers

14 Jan 2015 • engadget.com

We’re well into the era of 4K televisions now, meaning manufacturers have to find other ways to distinguish their new sets from the competition. Philips has had mood lighting for years and it’s experimented with short-throw projection backgrounds; now it wants to fiddle with the color on the screen itself. The Smart Laser Backlight Ultra HDTV does just that by incorporating cyan LEDs and a red laser into its backlighting source, as opposed to more standard white LEDs. Philips claims the combination allows for a more accurate, more expressive range of colors.

Lasers - not just for shooting down drones anymore. I wonder what year we’ll be saying “Oh, you’ve got one of those old laser 8K TVs, yuck. The picture is just so terrible.”