Tag: 1080p
LG has gone mental and made a TV out of gold
As if TVs weren’t expensive enough already. The new LG home theatre system is plastered with 24 carat gold, and is the most needless, pointless and overpriced innovation in home cinema since Blu-ray and HD-DVD came along.
The ludicrously OTT 71″ set, which uses PDP technology to display its HD pictures…
BenQ releases three new high definition home cinema projectors
BenQ has announced the launch of three new high definition video projectors in the UK. The W10000, W9000 and W500.
W500
The W500 provides a 5,000:1 contrast ratio, features HQV (Hollywood Quality Video), operates at 28dB, and can project 720p content. It also offers upscaling of standard definition content.
Its Multi-Dimensional Diagonal Filtering technology should prevent ghosting, and it has horizontal and vertical lens shifting, and “professional inputs” – presumably / hopefully this includes HDMI.
It retails for £699.
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Philips unveil HTS8100 SoundBar Ambisound "one box" speaker system
Philips has announced its new HTS8100 SoundBar Ambisound system, which claims to give realistic surround sound from a single speaker bar.
Front and rear-channel signals are emitted by the six drivers mounted in the sound bar, enveloping the listener irrespective of their location. It doesn’t rely upon sound reflections, so listeners will get the full surround sound effect wherever they sit and whatever the size and shape of the room, providing that they’re within range of the speakers.
The Arcam DiVA AVR280 Cinema & Music Receiver
See that product name? Has a small ‘i’ in it. Now that’s cool. The price is perhaps a little less-cool at £1200, but you’re getting one very important thing – loads and loads of little silver buttons.
A projector for £9,999 – the SIM2 'HT3000E' is a, cough, steal
Better add this to your wish list, unless Roman Abramovich is reading Tech Digest again, in which case I’m willing to bet he’s got one of these SIM2 projectors in every room.
Rolling in at a cost of a mere £9,999 each, the HT3000E delivers 1080p resolution, renders one billion colours and can project up to 30ft. It’s apparently the only ‘full’ hi-def projector which offers that BrilliantColor…
CES 2007: Sharp's gaming LCD HDTVs
I think the current success of high definition televisions, especially outside the US where we already enjoy an at least semi-decent picture resolution anyway, has a lot to do with the new high defintion games consoles: the Xbox 360…
CES 2007: Tosh announces new LCD range
Toshiba is rolling out a whole new line of LCD flat panel TVs that should be available state-side from April, 2007. Although they deliberately differ only slightly from the successful, existing REGZA range, these new models will offer larger screen…
Arcam DV139: latest DVD/Universal Audio player
HDTVUK covered the Arcam DV137 back in May, and now Arcam have stepped up a gear with the introduction of their DV139 DVD/Universal audio player that they claim is their best ever. Arcam really aren't buying into the whole…
Review:Samsung BDP1000 Blu-ray player
Over at HDTVUK they have a review of the first Blu-ray player to launch in the UK – the BDP1000 from Samsung. Overall verdict is that it is a goodie – but you've really got to want one to…
Helios H4000 DVD upscaler launched in Europe
In our increasingly high-definition world, a number of manufacturers are now releasing upscaling DVD players to transform your collection of DVD films into near high definition quality for watching on your shiny new LCD or plasma screen. Helios have…
