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GE Brings High Quality To The Lamp World

General Electric has been spending a lot of time and money trying to perfect the Quartz Lamps so that they are higher quality and thus last longer. Most front-end projectors use high-pressure mercury lamps because they last for thousands of hours and save you from having to buy projector lamps regularly.

The Quartz Tubing used for the projector lamps are placed within the lamp reflector and create an ultra bright white light similar to that of a camera flash and the sun. This is the kind of light required to produce an image via your projector so that colors remain true and bright. GE is manufacturing these Quartz lamps so that they are of higher purity.

The higher purity translates into a clearer tube that is able to transmit the light better and brighter. This is why as your projector lamp starts to fade and lose its life the cylindrical portion of the lamp starts to develop a white film. The white film prevents light from being transmitted to its maximum output and you don’t get the most consistent image. Some people notice this effect around the corners of their image after a few thousand hours of projector use.

If you want to get into chemical details, go read a scientific journal, but what I will tell you is that long life lies in the purity of the tubing. GE makes the arc tube with synthetics that slow down the effect of solarization, yes a somewhat made up word, basically meaning that the rays that pass through the tube do not create a white film as quickly.

Some other techniques that GE has incorporated have improved the overall consistency and uniform characteristics of the lamp itself allowing it to be free of structural defects. Less light is lost to poor transmittance and the real winners are the consumers of home theatre products thanks to extended projector lamp life.

Lessons learned are that you should never buy home theatre equipment out of the back of a milk truck and that a projector lamp in the hand is worth two in the bush. Translated: General Electric is a company that is composed of philanthropic benevolent scientist type super heroes looking to rid the entertainment world of high cost deformed projector lamps.