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cedia 2008
Oppo BDP-S83 Blu-ray Player May Be First (Almost) Universal Disc Reader
Oppo, pimps of the upscaling DVD realm and makers of one of the best (and last) SACD/DVD-Audio capable machines out there, are moving into the Blu-ray business with the BDP-S83 player. There are no announced deets, but an AVS Forum member spotted this unit at CEDIA. And from what we can see in this image and the back shot below, the feature set is laid out clearly, and something's unusual about it. Update: Oppo got back to us with extra info, including confirmation of Anchor Bay upscaling, soon-ish shipping date and a possible price ($500-$700). More » -
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Panasonic's 65VX100U Premiere Kuro-Killing Plasma Reviewed (Verdict: Best Flat Panel to Date)
Just yesterday we got our first taste of Panasonic's new TH-65VX100U plasma technology, which features specs that meet or exceed Pioneer's Kuro. Our initial impressions were extremely positive, but Gary at HD Guru managed to get his hands on an early production sample for a closer look, and he too was impressed. In fact, he called it the "new king of flat panels." More » -
cedia 2008
Twelve of CEDIA's Most Beautifully Expensive Audiophile Speakers
Put simply, CEDIA is a trade show that trains its attendees to prep a home for MTV Cribs. Simple as that. So as a result, the audiophile gear on display is a sight (and an expenditure) to behold. Especially if your Cribs client prefers speakers that cost more than some small countries' GDPs in their champagne room to better reproduce the low-end punch of his John Mayer SACDs. More »
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cedia 2008
Panasonic 65VX100U Premiere Plasma Is a Kuro Killer?
Tonight in Denver, Panasonic revealed its newest plasma technology, the 65" custom-install-only VX100 monitor, whose specs meet or beat Pioneer's hallowed Kuro. That means 60,000:1 contrast ratio with 7,160 shades of gradation for visible detail in the darker shadows. At 65 inches, you will pay $10,000 a panel, but not to worry: Panasonic will roll out a 50 incher soon, which is sure to be (a teeny tiny tad) cheaper. We sat in a dark room and got to compare the VX100 with its predecessor, the 65PF. Though the results in the room were startlingly vivid, you can get a sense of what's going on here in our still shots:If you're really crazy about TV technology, jump for a second gallery of slides from the presentation—but, as they say on MythBusters, there's some "science content" ahead, so put the drink down and focus... More » -
cedia 2008
iPhone: The Home Automation Remote Killer
There are already a few home automation iPhone apps in the store, but here at CEDIA it's clear that all of the home automation heavies have definitely discovered the obvious: the iPhone makes for a great universal touchscreen remote for everything from your AC to your living room blinds to your music collection. And most of them won't make you pay the price of a snazzy dedicated touchscreen controller to get it, either. Most of them. More » -
cedia 2008
Lifeware's LMS-810 Media Center PC Can Drive Ten TVs at Once
See these 10 TVs? They're all being driven by the same, single Media Center PC. Taking what they came with last year and doubling it, Lifeware has crammed eight CableCARD tuners (two on board and six more in the external Lifetuner box on top) into a dual Intel Quad Core, 12TB RAID 5 box that can stream out to ten Media Extenders (here, Xbox 360s driving Samsung LCDs). The box can record from all eight of its HD streams while streaming to all 10 Extenders at once, so if you've been wondering what to do with your home's 8 spare digital cable feeds, now you know. No price yet for a pre-Christmas release, but last year's model with half as many CableCARDs was $15k. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by ripfire: 8 cable feeds? Couldn't you just split the signal 8 ways? 2 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
Sony's Prototype 400-Disc Blu-ray Mega Changer Spied in Dark Corner
Last year at CEDIA, Sony made a splash with a refrigerator-sized Blu-ray home server with 200-disc changer. This year it's nowhere to be seen, but in its place, Sony is showing a 400-disc changer of a more sensible size. The company isn't saying much, except that it's coming in 2009, it's going to be BD-Live capable, and that it will have RS-232C controls for the home-theater hardcores. Great! Now all you need are 400 Blu-ray discs worth owning. (It will hold DVDs and CDs, too, of course, but why waste it?) More » -
cedia 2008
NLighten IT7202 72-inch Touchscreen HDTVs Put Google Earth At Your Fingertips
Rear-projection may be deader than dead as far as the biggies are concerned, but the folks at nLighten are intent to squeeze a bit more life out of these 72-inch 1080p DLP sets by sticking an infrared camera inside next to the light source that detects cursor points from an IR-tipped pen, allowing for a simple (no multitouch) touchscreen interface. It can act as a standard Windows mouse allowing for 1080p touchscreen Google Earth, or any other app. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by inspiredEpic: It can't do multi-touch? FAIL You should be able to zoom on using two fingers >.<. 1 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
Tru2way TVs from Panasonic and Sony, Live For the First Time
Fans of Giz Explains know that Tru2way is the cable industry's latest cable card scheme. Today, Sony and Panasonic are showing off their own Tru2way-enabled TVs, Pana's PZ80Q with a built-in box, and Sony's Bravia with a box that connects via HDMI. What's cool is that this is the first time their showing it connected live to the cable company's head-end, and as you can see from the video and shots below, it works pretty well. Bonus: Samsung is showing off a different Tru2way interface, also connected to Comcast, though without full video-on-demand capability. Photos of that below. More »
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Chi Lin's Liquid-Cooled LED Projector Has 6-Year Lamp Life, Expertly Renders Rich Blackness of David Hasselhoff's Eyes
Taiwanese OEM Chi Lin is claiming the world's first liquid-cooled, LED-lit 1080p projector here at CEDIA using TI's latest DLP chipset. The liquid-cooled RGB LED light source is rated at 50,000 hours—5.7 years of continuous runtime—and spits out 128% of NTSC's color set and a 100,000:1 contrast ratio at sizes up to 130 inches. As you can imagine, it makes David Hasselhoff look like a million damn dollars. More » -
cedia 2008
Epson First to Drop Below $2K With 1080p Projector
Last year, Epson brought the price of 1080p projectors down to $2,700 and today it's dropping it again, to $2,000 (officially $1,999) for the all-new Powerlite Home Cinema 6100. We're not saying it's going to be as high-performance as Sony's or Panasonic's new $3,500 projectors, but damn if that's not the right price to build yourself a "budget" home theater. Epson is also launching its Pro Cinema 7100 and 7500 UB 1080p projectors with some seriously high contrast ratios, but they'll come at a much higher—and as yet unspecified—price. More info below. More »
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Comment by pitpawten: Why oh why does this have to be LCD. At high hours (5-10K) FP LCD's simply cant endure the usage;... 1 Responses | Other threads
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JVC DLA-SH4K Is World's Smallest 4K Resolution Projector: 10 Gorgeous Megapixels In Yer Face
No surprise that JVC is showing off their own ultra high-def 10MP wonder projector, since JVC's D-ILA tech also powers the one we saw from Meridian a few weeks ago. That means it should deliver the same stunning 4,096x2400 resolution image—it's like IMAX in your house. Or you can watch up to four full HD screens at once. The D-ILA tech, with its ridiculous pixel density, is also what lets this thing be a whole 65 percent tinier than conventional ultra HD projectors. More » -
cedia 2008
JVC 1.5-Inch Slim Procision LCDs LT-42SL89 and LT-46L89 Don't Kill The Light
At CES, JVC showed off its super slim LCDs, but at the time there wasn't a lot of detail on them. Today, the 42" LT-42SL89 and 46" LT-46L89 are shipping, priced at $1,900 and $2,400. Though the 1.5-inch thick TVs actually measure 2.9 inches in the middle, they come with an integrated HDTV tuner, which other slim TVs barf out into an external box to achieve their sub-inch status. I also admire the engineering involved in building a backlight that uses diffusion panels to kill the spots from placing lights too close to the panel, without killing the light. More » -
cedia 2008
Sharp XS1 Flagship Ultrathin LCDs and D65U & D85U Little Friends Headed For US.
We saw Sharp's "Limited Edition" Aquos XS1 LCDs at IFA, and now at CEDIA they're official for an as-of-now unpriced US release in October (seeing a pattern here?). The 65-inch LC-65XS1U-S and 52-inch LC-52XS1U-S are 1-inch thin (at their thinnest point), and feature Sharp's RGB LED backlight, which they say improves color accuracy over other blue-only LED backlights and allows for a 1,000,000:1 claimed contrast ratio. Joining them are the D65U and D85U series, which bring 120Hz to the mid-range. For full details and more shots of all, hit the jump. More »
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cedia 2008
Sony Just Can't Stop Kicking a Dead, Dead Horse
A banner year for Blu-ray, to be sure, with a 100% drop in the most important stat of all, there in yellow. All this according to "Sony Figures." They just can't help themselves. -
cedia 2008
Sony US Confirms VPL-HW10 and VPL-VW70 Projectors ($3,500 or $8,000, Your Choice)
Sony may have teased us with its newest projectors at IFA, but today in the US, the company announced availability and pricing. We guessed $3,000 for the VPL-HW10, but we were close but not totally right. The solid 1080p Bravia SXRD (LCOS-based) projector with 30,000:1 dynamic contrast is a "value" play, but it's still expensive at $3,500. The step-up VPL-VW70 doubles the contrast, and lets you fit an external lens that morphs the picture into a 2.35:1 widescreen ratio without losing pixels. (That extra lens is sold separately.) The VW70 is $8,000. There aren't much more details about either yet, but what we do have is below. More »
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Comment by Con Seannery: Man, Sony LOVES to make products that look like George Foreman grills. 2 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
Sony VAIO RT All-In-One PC Is A 25.5" Widescreen, HDMI-Filled, Video Editing Monster
The VAIO RT is Sony's beast of an all-in-one PC, an "extra-widescreen" (read: 16:9) 25.5" display, created with designers and video editors in mind. It's big feature is that it not only has an HDMI-in port in order to work with HD content, but it also has an HDMI-out, for connecting a second monitor. Other features include a Blu-ray recordable drive and up to 1TB of hard drive space. It also comes loaded with 8GB RAM, a multi-card reader and a built-in digital TV tuner. Of course, you're still stuck with Vista, but with all that power underneath you should do just fine. Unfortunately, the RT has a beastly price tag to match—it starts at $3300—when it arrives this fall. Press release down below. [Sony] More » -
cedia 2008
Sony Ultra-Thin KLV-40ZX1M and 240Hz KDL-52XBR7 LCD HDTVs Getting Official US Release
Just like we spied earlier today, Sony's two baddest IFA LCD TVs—the 9.9mm-thin KLV-40ZX1M LCD (above) and the 200Hz Motionflow Z4500 (below, known as the KDL-52XBR7 at 240Hz here in the US, due to our 30fps broadcasts vs. Europe's 25fps)—are both getting an official US rollout here at CEDIA. Jesus got a chance to fondle 'em in Berlin last week where US details were slim, but both sets will be shipping stateside in December. Both have whole-house WHDI wireless HD streaming built-in from Amimon. No official pricing on either, but they'll be top-end, for sure (rumored to be $4,500 for the ZX1). Full release follows: More » -
cedia 2008
Sony's $2000 BDP-S5000ES Flagship Blu-ray Player: Stuck Between Pioneer and a PS3
Sony is trying to bargain with potential buyers of Pioneer's $2,200 BDP-09FD: For $200 less, you can get yourself the BDP-S5000ES. Meanwhile, it's equally intended to regain the love of all those home-theater enthusiasts who bee-lined it for the PS3 (rather than a dedicated BD player) because of its networking and speed. More » -
cedia 2008
Toshiba Continues Their Upconverting Crusade With New Regza XV545, RV535 LCDs
At Toshiba's CEDIA press conference today, they're continuing to pull out all the stops with their "no need for Blu-ray, we upconvert everything" strategy, rolling out a boatload of new LCDs with their new SRT upconverting processor, which auto-detects SD sources and upconverts to 1080p inside the set. The top-of-the-line Regza Cinema Series XV545 LCDs (above) will bring the upconverting goodness at 42", 46" and 52", priced $1800-$2800 and hitting in September. Another new series, the second-string RV535 Regzas bring all the same for less, but without 120Hz. But is this the Cell upconverting we saw at IFA? More »
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By John MahoneyComment by Con Seannery: I won't invest in either new video format. I don't know which one is gonna win the format war. 1 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
Panasonic $3,500 AE3000 Projector: Green and Smart with Crazy Contrast
Some 1080p projectors are getting down below the $2,000 mark, but the real news is that insanely good projectors are appearing in the $3,000 range. On the heels of Sony's VPL-HW10 comes Panasonic's AE3000, which has 60,000:1 contrast ratio using LCD projection technology. The $3,500 system handles motion blur withsomething like the 120Hz seen in LCD flat panels: 120 frames per sec for 60Hz content; 96 frames per second for 24P content. It's smart on power consumption, reducing the drain on the lamp according to the scene's requirements. More details below: More » -
cedia 2008
Panasonic Reprices PZ850 Flagship 65" Net-Connected Plasma: Now Only $7,000
We've covered Panasonic's flagship connected plasmas from the beginning, first at CES and then later when pricing was announced. Today at CEDIA they've bumped pricing down, and confirmed availability for this month. The 65-inch TH-65PZ850 will sell for $7,000 (we reported it earlier at $8000), while the 58-incher will sell for an even $4,000, down $300 from the May pricing. Additional info on them below. More »
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Comment by daftrok: Jesus Christ a 65" PLASMA screen? Can someone say electric anal rape? 1 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
CEDIA 2008 Infiltrated: Booths Under Construction, A Few Tidbits Already Powered Up
We snuck in (or casually moseyed in, actually) to CEDIA's main show floor, which is still being set up for tomorrow's opening, and we've learned a few things in advance of any announcements. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by Noobs-R-Us: Can you make the pictures any fuzzier please? What are you using, a Duane Reade camera? 1 Responses | Other threads
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cedia 2008
LG Sets Price for BD300 Netflix Blu-ray Player: A Reasonable $400
LG kicks off the press conferences here at CEDIA in Denver. After teasing the Netflix-streaming LG BD300 Blu-ray player, a double threat if I ever saw one, they finally told us the price today: $400, well below the $500 mark LG was aiming to stay under. (Keep in mind, the Netflix box by Roku is, by itself, $100.) LG says the BD300 will be appearing in stores by end of this month or first week in October. More » -
cedia 2008
CEDIA 2008: We're Here!
The mighty custom installer show known as CEDIA comes but once a year, with its projectors, its media servers, its extra big-ass speakers and maybe a THX-certified toaser oven or two. We're here in Denver to absorb it all, and share with you the tastiest bits. Stay tuned, cuz the press conferences start around 3pm EST, and the news keeps popping until the end of the week. Aloha, Denver... we have arrived. [CEDIA Expo]
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