Editing Digital light processing (section)

=== Three-chip projectors ===
A three-chip DLP projector uses a prism to split light from the [[lamp (electrical component)|lamp]], and each [[primary color#handprintprimaries|primary color]] of light is then routed to its own DMD chip, then recombined and routed out through the [[lens (optics)|lens]]. Three chip systems are found in higher-end home theater projectors, large venue projectors and DLP Cinema projection systems found in digital movie theaters.

According to DLP.com, the three-chip projectors used in movie theaters can produce 35 trillion colors.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} The human eye is suggested to be able to detect around 16 million colors {{citation needed|date=May 2014}}, which is theoretically possible with the single chip solution. However, this high color precision does not mean that three-chip DLP projectors are capable of displaying the entire [[gamut]] of colors we can distinguish (this is fundamentally impossible with any system composing colors by adding three constant base colors).  In comparison, it is the one-chip DLP projectors that have the advantage of allowing any number of primary colors in a sufficiently fast color filter wheel, and so the possibility of improved color gamuts is available.