Widely regarded as the future of professional and consumer projection technology, laser projectors possess numerous advantages over traditional lamp-based systems. From enhanced brightness to minimal costs of ownership, laser projectors have quickly become the optimal projection choice for a diverse range of applications. From the first time they power on to their final use before being replaced, high intensity discharge lamps (central to lamp-based projectors) steadily lose fifty percent of their initial brightness capability. While this degradation is an accepted aspect of lamp-based systems, brightness decay affects laser projectors to a much lesser degree. Over the course of their 20,000 hour lifetimes, blue laser diodes only diminish by twenty percent, resulting in greater brightness over dramatically longer periods of use. Furthermore, lasers can achieve significantly greater peak brightness levels than HD lamps, often producing twice as many lumens.