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In addition to the giant plasma display seen below, LG also unveiled this 47-inch 1080p LCD. Like most of the other LCDs at CEDIA this year, the 47LB1DA features full-blown, balls-to-the-wall 1080p resolution. This LCD also features a contrast ratio of 1600:1 dual HDMI with HDCP ports and CableCARD support. It is now available for…
LG was showing off this monstrosity at their booth at CEDIA. This giant, 60-inch plasma most notably includes an HD-DVR unit integrated into the plasma television. This is a step up from LG’s already released 50-inch plasma with DVR. The HD-DVR has a 160 GB hard drive capable of storing 13 hours of HD programming…
Crestron’s booth was jam-packed with enough home-automation crap to shake a stick at (whatever the hell that means), but there were a couple little gadgets that stood out. These are the Isys i/O WiFi Touchpanel (left) and the Isys i/O Handheld WiFi TouchPanel (right). You need to understand that these aren’t remotes that you can…
The Audio Design Associates’ iHome Multi-Center is part music storage device, part media PC, part IP control server. Two 400gb RAID drives can hold music and hi-def video, and 750gb upgrades are on the horizon. The product’s claim to fame, however, is its ability to remotely playback Apple AAC DRM-protected music from a PC, tablet…
This is by no means official, but according to my hours of Internet browsing, SED technology is not at CEDIA 2006. You may remember SED from our posts during CES this year. It’s built upon the foundations of phosphorus televisions, but Canon and Toshiba basically packed all that technology into each pixel of a flat-panel.…
Sony announced some additions to their Bravia line of HDTVs. The KDL-52XBR2 and KDL-52XBR3 are 52-inch behemoths that run at the full 1080p resolution. They include HDMI inputs among other inputs. They will both ship in November for $6,800 and $6,500. The XBR3 is featured with a piano-black finish and the XBR2 features a silver…
LimeLight Audio is showing off their innovative, if a little ugly, speaker lamps – and supposedly they even sound “good” (whatever that means to the speaker world). They are 150-watt speakers blowing sound out of a 6.5-inch woofer and 1-inch tweeter in 360 degrees. Collect all six colors for your surround sound and tan while…
Reader Tom was lucky enough to be a witness to what may be the first blogged instance of an IBM laptop igniting thanks to its battery. So we’re waiting for a flight in the United lounge at LAX, the flight next to ours was heading to London and in the middle of final boarding, when…
Out of all of the projectors being featured here at CEDIA, surprisingly, this one from Sony has the most bang for the buck. We first mentioned the VPL-VW50 projector a few days ago, but I have since had some more hands-on time and I am very impressed. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vpl-vw50-a-projector-with-a-15-000-to-1-contrast-200255 This 1080p projector is powered by three…
Sony introduced the STR-DA5200ES 1080p-supported receiver at CEDIA this year. This receiver is the shizzle and more. It is even capable of upscaling any source to 1080p. So yes, you can upscale those home videos of you playing air-guitar in your diapers as a toddler to 1080p. The interface is also really unique. It is…
Aside from their innovation in mixing LED and DLP in their model numbers, NuVision has added a 52″ LED-powered DLP set to their Deep Black line of televisions. While we’ve talked about this product before, we didn’t mention the NuVision CEO had officially announced the release date to be by this end of this month…
Here’s a rendering of the marketplace, complete with Zune playback controls on the bottom. It seems like this is going to be the “iTunes” of the Zuniverse, managing downloads and playlists and uploading music into the Zune. Personally we thought they would have incorporated it into Windows Media Player 11, but I guess they didn’t…
“Dude, your entertainment cabinet is the coolest!” “Yeah dude, I know.” We’re sure that most sufers/stoners/90s clich s don’t need high-end cabinets designed to keep their components cool, but oh well. Salamander Designs has been showing off custom (translation: expensive) entertainment furniture with original options like internal cooling systems (translation: fans, maybe more). We don’t…
Sharp announced three 1080p LCD TVs at CEDIA this week. The TV’s feature 1080p full HD resolutions. Sharp unveiled a 42-inch, 46-inch and 52-inch addition this mid to late October when these TVs are released. The LC-52D62U is the 52-inch behemoth. It has a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 4ms response time and dual HDMI inputs. This…
We were kind of bummed out by the official Zune photos that were released with the announcement. But we did find some updated Zune Press Kit photos via the Zune Insider Flickr that gets us muy excitado! https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-zune-gets-officially-announced-200641 Check out the black and brown pics after the jump.
This is Sharp’s big, beautiful 1080p projector, the Z20000. It uses Texas Instruments DLP technology. The projector has a brightness of 1,000 ANSI lumens and an amazing 12,000:1 contrast ratio. On the back it has two HDMI ports along with DVI and composite (jump to see a picture of the rear). The projector is capable…
Pioneer’s first Blue-ray player is late to the game, but adds in movie, picture, and music playback from a USB stick, PC, or DLNA compatible device (by ethernet.) That’s to the usual DVD upscaling, and of course, 1080p Blu-ray disc love. Since it’s their Elite line, we can be sure of three things: Top line…
Pioneer’s three announced Elite PureVision plasma TVs not only have a redesigned glass and a First Surface PRO Color Filter, it’s got the Home Media Gallery home networking feature that we saw earlier. The 42-inch PRO-940HD, 50-inch PRO1140HD, and 60-inch PRO-1540HD all have improved brightness and, efficiency and contrast—as if they’d have worse brightness, efficiency…
Hitachi announced their new 42-inch 1080p plasma television. It’s world’s first 1080p plasma of that size (LCDs of those specs have been around for some time), and is using ALiS (Alternate Lighting of Surfaces) technology to enhance the brightness, sharpness and longevity. Can you tell 720p from 1080p in this size? It’s probably tough, but…
It seems that LCD concealing products are a big trend this year at CEDIA. This is a Sony LCD TV that comes loaded up with a motorized, flat-speaker that can slide up and down concealing the TV leaving just the big speaker visible. The flat speaker also has an integrated DVD/CD/SACD player and FM tuner,…