Projectiondesign says its eagerly-awaited avielo kroma LED-lit DLP projector will arrive in the UK 'imminently'.

Utilizing ReaLED solid state illumination instead of a traditional lamp, it will take on Vivitek's H9080FD at the high-end of the DLP home cinema market.

The Norwegian brand's Joe Manning, says: 'From an image quality point of view, our ReaLED technology gives us an incredible contrast ratio and an image with a colour spectrum purer than any other technology. Additionally, absence of some of the effects traditionally seen with other projectors produces a picture that is better than anything we've seen before. The kroma produces outstanding imagery.'

Projectiondesign says that the new LED light source provides 'a wider and more consistent colour gamut, with richer and better colour rendition than any competing illumination technology.' It's also expected to run for 100,000 hours without the need for servicing.

All models in the avielo series of projectors are designed and hand-built in Fredrikstad, Norway. The industrial version, the FL32, made it's debut recently at the Infocomm Expo.