World's first laser based projector to be launched in China

A Chinese company called Shanghai Sanxin Technology Development (SSTDC) will be launching the world's first laser-based projector, the Laseno SMP-101. It uses an LCoS microdisplay (it is not a laser-beam-steering projector like Microvision's PicoP), made by Syndiant (SYL2010).

The SMP-101 supports SVGA (800x600) resolution, 250:1 contrast and over 20 lumens. It is also focus free. It is also a PMP with 2Gb of internal memory, and a USB host connection. It supports a lot of formats (such as Office documents, PDFs, photos and videos such as AVI, MP4, DivX, H.264 and more).

Syndiant says that SSTDC have ordered several tens of thousands units of the SYL2010.