65" Laser TV To Hit America First

So Mitsubishi will release a huge 65" Laser TV this Autumn and the gits in America (said in a loving tone) will get their grubby mits on it first! The thing is that we're all expecting it to be as thin as a pancake but i4u is reporting that it'll have a "possible a depth of 10 inches." Isn't this a load of rubbish? Haven't we seen all over the net that it'll be much thinner than that?

Mitsubishi Heading For Trademark Dispute With LaserVue?

Checking the United State Patent And Trademark Office website you find that on 24th January 2008 Mtisubishi applied for the trademark "Laservue" for a new TV:

Word Mark LASERVUE
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Televisions
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 77379685
Filing Date January 24, 2008
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 9351 Jeronimo Road Irvine CALIFORNIA 92618
Attorney of Record Ronald L. Taylor
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

The thing is they don't own laservue.com, Jay Bansal MD, a laser eye surgeon does. I can just see a long protracted legal dispute commencing soon!

But wait, it gets worse. The next record on the USPTO site is for "LASERVUE HD CUSTOM LASIK":

Word Mark LASERVUE HD CUSTOM LASIK
Goods and Services IC 044. US 100 101. G & S: Laser vision surgery services, lasik eye surgery, refractive eye surgery, refractive cataract surgery
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 77040286
Filing Date November 9, 2006
Current Filing Basis 1B;44D
Original Filing Basis 1B;44D
Owner (APPLICANT) Société de gestion Fovea 20/20 inc. CORPORATION CANADA Suite 201 1100 Beaumont avenue Mont-Royal CANADA H3P3H5
Attorney of Record Richard S. Gareau
Priority Date November 9, 2006
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "LASIK" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

They don't claim to have sole rights for the use of "Lasik" but would there be some confusion over the Laservue names?

When Mitsubishi mention the product in the press will they use a url based on the Mitsubishi TV.com domain or their Believing is Seeing site? Or will they try and get the Laservue.com domain?

Mitsubishi Lazr TV For The Green In Us?

So apparently the Mitsubishi LazrTV will use 25% less power than traditional plasma / LCD TVs. With the rising cost of electricity and the the burgeoning number of households with these flat panel tv's, couldn't we help save the planet with a Laser TV from Mitsubishi?

Looking at a report by the Telegraph, a plasma TV will use 450 watts of electricity, whilst a tradtional TV will use 75 watts. They stated that "if half of all British households buy a plasma screen TV, the Government is going to need to build two extra power stations to cope with the electricity demand."

So if you did want to help reduce your "carbon footprint" and your energy bills you don't have to get a wind turbine in the garden but turn to a Lazr TV.

But if you can't wait until the end of the year to get your environmentally-friendly TV then you should try the Sony's 40-inch KDL-40D3000 LCD TV which was recently voted EISA's ( European Imaging and Sound Association) European Green Television 2007-2008.

Samsung's OLED 31" Prototype TV

I'm sure the Mitsubishi Laser TVs will out sell the Samsung OLED TVs based on this prototype image from CEBIT 2008 basically because of the extremely high cost. You could expect to pay £1500 for a 31 inch model which is about 3 times the price of traditional LCD TVs.



Just look at that pic though! It does look amazing!!!!