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Design
The Hot Rod Chair Goes Vroom Vroom
9:00AM Mark Wilson | You’ve never watched TV until you’ve watched it from a chair sporting a tailpipe and flame paint. More »
Screens
Who Has An Extra $US175,000 For A Cinema Quality Projector?
11:00PM Mark Wilson | We know, we know. You don’t think the bank will support your $US175,000 “projector mortgage” request. But JVC’s highest end 4K projector isn’t going to buy itself. More »
Screens
JVC’s LT-32WX50 Is Insanely Thin, Insanelier Expensive
11:00PM Mark Wilson | I’m not sure you could ever call a 32-inch monitor portable, but if you could, the JVC LT-32WX50 fits the bill. Aside from the LCD’s 6.4mm depth, the display weighs but 5.7kg. More »
Entertainment
Sony BDP-N460 Video Streaming Blu-ray Player For $US250
7:00AM Matt Buchanan | The BDP-N460 is the Sony Blu-ray player we’ve been asking for—almost. It’s $US250, and streams video through Bravia Internet Video—including Netflix this fall—but instead of including Wi-Fi, it’s got “specially designed” software for Linksys’s $US100 Wi-Fi dongle. Right. More »
Screens
8:00PM Danny Allen |
Yeah, they’ve got 240Hz “Flow Motion”, but the draw of the 46- and 52-inch ZX5s is their super-slim 15.8mm and 16.6mm frames. That’s partly due to their edge-mounted LED-backlighting, but also because they receive 1080p video via a wireless receiver. More »
Sony’s Bravia ZX5 LED HDTVs Are Beautifully Slim
8:00PM Danny Allen |
Yeah, they’ve got 240Hz “Flow Motion”, but the draw of the 46- and 52-inch ZX5s is their super-slim 15.8mm and 16.6mm frames. That’s partly due to their edge-mounted LED-backlighting, but also because they receive 1080p video via a wireless receiver. More »
Screens
JVC’s 32-Inch, LED-Backlit TV Is Just A Quarter-Inch Thick
9:00PM John Herrman | At Cedia UK, JVC is showing off its 32-inch LT-32WX50, which appears to be a close relation to the 7mm-thick GD-32X1 we heard about earlier this month. It’s extremely thin, and carries it well. More »
Business
Will Trade Shows Survive?
10:50AM Wilson Rothman | Seeing Apple pull out of Macworld and hearing talk of poor turnout at CES make us speculate on the future of trade shows—like automakers and newspapers, are they another institution on the endangered-species list?
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Oppo BDP-S83 Blu-ray Player May Be First (Almost) Universal Disc Reader
9:38AM Wilson Rothman | 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 (US$500-US$700). More »
Screens
Panasonic’s 65VX100U Premiere Kuro-Killing Plasma Reviewed (Verdict: Best Flat Panel to Date)
7:52AM Sean Fallon | 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 »
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