Barco, a global innovator and industry leader in digital visualization, is pleased to announce its cooperation with professional electronics company JVC on the implementation of JVC‘s D-ILA technology. The offspring of this deal is Barco‘s recently launched LX-5 projector, which was showcased at recent Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam in January.

“The use of JVC‘s D-ILA technology enables the LX-5 to have a supreme 10 megapixel resolution and unrivaled color accuracy, thanks to the display technology‘s high contrast (10,000:1) capabilities,” explains Peter De Meerleer, Director of Product Management at Barco, “This allows true, natural black levels and an enhanced color gradience, and helps the LX-5 to create an image quality so natural that it rivals human perception of reality. The LX-5 is bound to become the projector of choice for ultra high-resolution applications.”

“We were very pleased to team up with Barco,” adds Keiichiro Doi, JVC‘s chief technology officer, “because we knew that Barco is a historically established top performance projector manufacturer with the right know-how to leverage our 10 megapixel D-ILA technology, and the right savvy to make this high resolution concept a success. The time is now for LCoS technology to conquer the market, and thanks to the partnership with Barco, we can make it happen.”

The LX-5 is already fully available for sales. Visit www.barco.com for more information.

About Barco

Barco, a global technology company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For fiscal year 2006, Barco posted net sales of euro 751.0 million. Barco‘s ordinary shares are listed on the Brussels/Euronext stock exchange. Share information may be accessed on Bloomberg under the symbol BAR BB and on Reuters under BARBt.BR.

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