Tag: HDTV
LG LF7700 – first truly HD ready 1080p TV released with Freesat tuner
LG and Freesat have put there heads together for the last few months and finally come up with a product for the consumer to get his and hers hands on. The LF7700 LCD range will come in 32″, 37″, 42″ and 47″ panel sizes and is slightly confusingly both 1080p and described as HD Ready.
LG say it’s HD Ready because of the built-in Freesat tuner such that all you need is a satellite dish to receive HD content unlike other TVs that would require a set top box of some sort.
The LF7700 comes with a generous 4 HDMI 1.3 ports, an Ethernet connection and a USB slot as well as speakers tuned by the legendary Mark Levinson. It offers a dynamic contrast ratio of 50,000:1, TruMotion 100Hz frame rates for a smoother picture in the two largest panel sizes and the LG intelligent sensor which allows the backlighting of the LCD to adjust accroding to ambient light and so save the user power consumption and planet its carbon.
They’re available from the end of this month and start from around £570.
LG looking at the end of the line for plasma TVs
Now I know the image I’ve used isn’t very accurate but a) it’s far more dramatic than some black rectangle of a LG plasma and b) I was going to use this one instead but, seeing as it’s a Samsung and an LCD, that would have been just as ridiculous as this one which, as it goes, is much more interesting, don’t you think?
Anyway, my editorial dilemmas to one side, the point is that LG’s vice president, Lee Gyu-hong, has announced that the Korean giants are taking a bit of a beating on plasma TVs and that they’re thinking about ceasing production…
Even in these troubled economic times people still NEED a big new HDTV
Despite the news all being about the end of the universe and how you’re best off mashing up all your remaining money into papier-mache logs to burn to keep warm, one statistic on the UK economic trends chart is pointing UP – sales of HD LCD and plasmas TVs are still rocketing.
Stats compiled by GFK for the BBC show that sales of fancy flat high-def TVs increased by nearly 11% in the last three months of 2008 compared to the same period of 2007, presumably because no one’s got jobs any more, so sitting around in the house watching TV is now the main occupation of the UK population. And if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it properly with a nice new 52″ Samsung…
SHINY PREVIEW: Philips 21:9 Cinema Super-Widescreen LCD
News of the Philips Cinema 21:9 TV splatted out onto the web about two weeks earlier than the Dutch masters would have liked, so the event yesterday afternoon was always going to be a little underwhelming. All the same, we sent Susi down to brave the canapes and bring us back what few extra details Philips were prepared to share, as well as a little footage of the sucker too.
Philips to launch Cinema 21:9 LCD super-widescreen TV
I always thought the point of buying a widescreen TV was to get rid of those black bars at the top and bottom of films until I bought one and someone explained to me that 16:9 was not the full cinema aspect ratio. Thankfully, Philips is now here to stop any such disappointment with the announcement of their Cinema 21:9 LCD TVs.
The 56″ screens will be available…
EU's knee-jerk anti-plasma campaign could lead to total ban and more sensationalist tech headlines
Everyone knows that, in general, large TVs consume more electricity than small ones, but it seems that EU bureaucrats are just turning themselves on to the idea of banning plasma TVs because they’re not energy efficient.
The yawn-inducing title attributed to plasma sets is “the 4×4 of the living room” (I reported this over at HDTVUK two years ago) because it’s easy to lump them all together as electricity guzzlers.
Sweeping generalisations reported in the mainstream press include such gems as “they use up to four times as much electricity and are responsible for up to four times as much carbon dioxide as traditional cathode ray tube sets.” The clue is in those two words — “up to” — which, just as when applied to your flagging broadband connection, can cover a huge range of values…
Glacier Media Systems promising "3D porn" to revolt you in more ways than previously imaginable
Now, personally speaking, I’m quite a fan and active user of a wide and varied range of pornography – but I’m not so sure there’s a need to watch it in 3D.
I don’t like the idea of a man’s belly and scrotum protruding into my lounge as he services the needs of a dishevelled-looking East European lady. That crosses a boundary. I want to feel emotionally detached. I don’t want a starring role. I’d never be able to perform under that sort of pressure.
But that’s precisely the sort of in-your-face and in-your-living-room approach to movie-watching being taken by Glacier Media Systems, with its Glacier Iceberg 3D entertainment system promising to bring your existing movie collection into 3D somehow, should you have…
CES 2009: Samsung reveals huge range of new LCD and plasma HD tellies
I knew that not long after reeling off LG’s massive line of new HDTVs then along would come someone else with lots of TVs to brag about.
That’s Samsung.
Here we go, then, with the latest high definition TVs from the South Korean technology giant.
First on the list is the new 8000, 7000, and 6000 Series of LED HDTVs which boast better environmental credentials and over 40% less energy usage to LCD TVs of a similar size. Fortunately, Dan’s already done a sterling job reviewing these tellies so I’ll move on to Samsung’s other new displays…
CES 2009: LG unveils huge range of plasma and LCD HDTVs
LG has decided that it hasn’t released nearly enough high definition TVs already, and so is spending this year’s CES showing off a jaw-dropping eleven new series (yes series, not just models) of plasma and LCD TVs.
So that you aren’t bored witless with every detailed specification, here’s an overview of what’s on offer.
Let’s take a look at the LCD TVs first…
LG to build Netflix-enabled HDTVs, Adobe bringing Flash to HD equipment
LG should announce today that it is to manufacture high definition LCD and plasma TVs with the Netflix Internet streaming service built in for the US market.
The two companies launched a partnership to manufacture set top boxes just before CES last year. This news means that consumers will be able to buy an integrated TV rather than a dedicated STB and additional cabling…
