JVC has developed a fully digital driving D‐ILA device, which inherits the advantages of conventional D‐ILA such as contrast ratio greater than 5000:1, high efficiency, high resolution and high reliability. The all‐digital drive offers substantial reductions in system cost and excellent picture quality has been achieved.

Abstract— This paper presents a new display device, which combines a digital backplane and a vertically aligned nematic liquid‐crystal layer. The device has 1280 × 720 pixels in a 0.7‐in.‐diagonal display area. In this paper, we present the concept of the new device and overview the performance of the device for a rear‐projection television application.