Tag: HD

Feast your eyes on SIM2's Grand Cinema C3X 1080 projector – no drooling!

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Trust SIM2 to roll out yet another gorgeous looking projector to join their bevy of beauties, if they keep this up, they’ll have a harem soon enough. Mmm, a harem of glossy 3-chip DLP projectors – don’t get too excited, boys.

The Grand Cinema C3X 1080 not only looks good enough to cuddle for a good few hours, but performs with the excellence SIM2 have been known for for many years now. As you’d expect, it’s a 3-chip DLP-touting device, which has the pleasure…

Katherine Hannaford Home cinema

Adobe updates Flash Player 9 "Moviestar" to include H.264 video support

flashlogo.gifAdobe has announced that its popular Flash Player 9, codenamed “Moviestar”, is being updated to include the H.264 / MPEG4 standard video format. This, together with technologies including High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support and hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback, could lead the way to Flash Player being used for high definition content.

It could also have implications for how popular video sharing services such as YouTube and MySpace operate, although YouTube is already moving to the H.264 format used by Quicktime so that videos can be played back on the iPhone, which currently doesn’t have Flash support.

Andy Merrett HDTV, Internet, Software

LG finally cuts price of Super Blu dual format high definition disc player

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There’s been something of a price war between rival HD DVD and Blu-ray player manufacturers of late, but until now, dual format players haven’t followed suit.

LG has just announced that it’s to cut the US price of its “Super Blu” BH100 dual format (HD DVD/Blu-ray) player by $200, from $1,199 down to $999.

This may be in response to Samsung’s recent announcement of their BDP-UP5000 player, expected to retail for around $1,049.

Andy Merrett Blu-ray, HD DVD

BenQ releases three new high definition home cinema projectors

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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.

Product page

Andy Merrett Home cinema

Blu-ray film studios launch "Hollywood in Hi-Def" web site

bluray.jpgHigh definition disc formats may not be the most exciting news around, but that’s not stopped companies who support either HD DVD or Blu-ray doing what they can to push their format as the best choice for consumers.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (I think it’s all about home entertainment) have backed a new web site that aims to push Blu-ray as the best choice for watching movies.

It’s called Hollywood in Hi-Def.

Andy Merrett Blu-ray