After five years of development, Prysm, based in San Jose, Calif., has introduced a laser television. The technology is built around Prysm’s patented repurposing of Blu-ray lasers to excite red, green, and blue pixels on a screen, just as old-fashioned cathode ray tubes (CRTs) do. Unlike CRTs, however, Prysm’s "laser phosphor display" (LPD) is compact, energy efficient, and has high resolution. The company—whose outsize ambitions were reflected in a booth equal in size to Panasonic’s and Sharp’s at InfoComm earlier this month—says the technology will be competitive with LCDs and plasma screens, the dominant players in today’s HDTV market, within three to five years.... more »