How does DLP Cinema™ technology work?
A movie projector based on DLP Cinema™ technology transfers the digitized image file onto three optical semiconductors known as Digital Micromirror Devices, or DMDs. Each of these chips is dedicated to one primary color-red, green, or blue. A DMD chip contains a rectangular array of over one million microscopic mirrors. The DMD mirrors tilt either toward or away form a light source up to thousands of times per second to reflect the movie onto the screen. Think of the DMD mirrors as the colored cards held up by an audience in a sports arena to create a giant image. Each person holds up a single colored card, yet when combined, these thousands of cards create a picture. If the card colors are changed, the picture changes too. Light from the projector’s lamp reflects off the mirrors and combines in different proportions of red, green, and blue, as controlled by the image file, to create an array of different colored pixels that make up the projected image. These images are sequentially pr
