Digital Trends

RCA HDLP50W151

August 11th, 2004 | by Dennis Barker

Introduction

RCA, which has long held a tradition as being a driving force in color television manufacturing, was the leading TV brand in the U.S for many years.   RCA was also the first company to introduce color TV back in 1954, and was also one of the first companies to introduce widescreen televisions in the early-to-mid 1990s (long before anyone was aware of HDTV), and put satellite television (DirecTV) on the map in 1994.  It was also one of the first companies to formally introduce HDTV in the late 1990s.  Today, RCA is part of the Thomson family of companies leading the world in color TV and other Consumer Electronics products including High Definition television.

Scenium is now considered to be RCA's upscale brand including many technologies and features on the cutting edge of electronics development.  The RCA Scenium HDLP50W151 is a 50-in widescreen integrated HDTV featuring DLP technology, which is an acronym for Digital Light Processing.  Basically, DLP is a special type of display device that has been developed by Texas Instruments (TI), and acts as a new type of optical display engine placed onto a semiconductor chip and is used in front and rear projection television sets instead of traditional CRTs (cathode ray tubes).