Category: HDTV
IFA 2008: Philips brings backlighting technology to PC, with its 22OXW9 22" LightFrame Monitor
According to Philips, its new 22OXW9 LightFrame LCD PC monitor is “proven to reduce eye fatigue,” making your PC-based life slightly easier to tolerate. It does this in the same way Philips’ range of HDTVs have been doing it for years – powering up a backlight to bathe the sides of the screen, and your wall, and your desk, in a relaxing glow…
IFA 2008: Sharp launches super-thin AQUOS XS1 and premium AQUOS D65E HDTVs
AQUOS XS1
It’s not just Sony playing the thin TV game, with Sharp announcing its latest AQUOS LCD TV boasting 2.3cms thick body.
Available in 52 and 65-inch screen sizes, the XS1 series features advanced contrast ratio of 10,000:1, 6ms response time, detachable speaker system, five 2.1-channel speakers, and 100Hz picture enhancement technology, plus gallery mode for displaying photos from a USB stick…
IFA 2008: Sony's super-thin 40" BRAVIA ZX1 LCD, with Wireless 1080 Media Receiver
And the floodgates are open! Sony’s first out of the gates with its IFA announcements, the first of which is this – the BRAVIA ZX1 LCD TV.
Boasting Wireless 1080 technology, which utilises a separate base station…
Toshiba launches first DVD player with XDE video enhancement technology. Will it sell?
Just a couple of months ago, Toshiba announced new upscaling technology which the company claimed would rival Blu-ray, building a system in to the latest Qosmio notebooks.
We’ve heard nothing more since, expecting more details at IFA, but today Toshiba has announced a new upconverting DVD player with XDE Technology.
It’s not immediately obvious whether “eXtended Detail Enhancement” is exactly the same system that Toshiba talked about back in June, but given its feature set, it’s highly likely…
BBC's iPlayer upgraded to H.264 codec – download speed and picture quality boosted
The BBC has been blowing your license fee on further developing its iPlayer service, announcing today that it’s starting to use the open source H.264 codec for its streaming telly service.
This has allowed the Beeb to boost the encoding bitrate of streamed shows from 500kbps to 800kbps, so it should all look a little sharper and cleaner when you catch up with such classics…
Sony intros BRAVIA X4500 and W4500 LCD HDTVs
Sony has announced another two sets of high definition tellies, the BRAVIA X4500 Series and the BRAVIA W4500 Series.
While both happily handle full 1080p high definition, the X4500 series uses a LED backlight on the 46 and 55 inch screens, while the W4500 uses standard LCD technology…
Panasonic rumoured to be producing a 40" OLED TV. Expect the Joneses across the street to retaliate soon.
If you had £467million, what would you do with it? Travel? See the world? Buy yourself a small country? Maybe even give some of it to poor people?
Panasonic, as it happens, does actually have that sort of money, but has opted to stay in instead, and spend the money on a bigger telly…
HANNSpree launches HT11 19-inch HD ready digital TV
HANNSpree has announced its HT11 19-inch HD ready digital TV, promoting it as an ideal second telly for the bedroom, kitchen, or study.
The 19-inch screen size coupled with 170 degree viewing angle offers a decent solution when it can be hard to place a TV in a smaller room.
It’s HD ready, and while its 1,280 x 1,024 resolution isn’t going to display full 1080p if connected to a Blu-ray player, at this size that doesn’t really matter…
Sharp's 108" LCD actually out to buy – should you have 11 million yen knocking about
11 million Japanese yen is about £52,000. Plus the shipping for a 108″ LCD TV from Japan is likely to be another £52,000, so it’s probably best to stick with that 28″ CRT of yours for a little while longer yet.
The Sharp LB-1085 – which we first revealed back in our coverage of CES 2007 – will be buyable in Japan this July. Theoretically buyable, should you be in Japan and have a van big enough…
Sony extends BRAVIA Internet Video Link, now includes YouTube
Sony has announced that its Internet Video Link hardware, which we saw at CES this year, can now stream YouTube videos as well as the current crop of web sites and services it can handle.
How good YouTube content will look on your 50-inch BRAVIA TV is another matter, as even higher quality videos aren’t true high definition…
