A recent DIRECTV subscriber and HDTV purchaser wants to find out how to get a standard definition DIRECTV signal to look good on his new 1080p HDTV.
Upstart HDTV vendor VIZIO is known by many as the affordable choice in LCD and plasma flat panel televisions. Now they’re making a play for the high-end display market with a new 50-inch Full HD 1080p plasma HDTV that features Silicon Optix Reon HQV video processing. But even packed with features and performance, the price is still on the low end for a 50-inch set.
While the rest of the plasma HDTV vendors concentrate on the 42-inch plus size range, VIZIO is quietly preparing the first 32-inch plasma HDTV for the US market, shipping this Spring, and you won’t believe where you’ll be able to buy it.
At recent trade shows, NEC and Alienware have displayed DLP-based ultra widescreen computer displays intended primarily for gamers who want to immerse themselves in the action.
In the aftermath of Warner’s announcement to withdraw support of the HD-DVD format, Toshiba responds by re-emphasizing their commitment to the format and lowering the price of admission.
At MacWorld in San Francisco yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Macbook Air – a notebook computer just 3/4-inch thick with a full size backlit keyboard and a 13.3 inch widescreen display. Also announced: iTunes does online movie rentals.
Panasonic unveiled a pair of new Blu-ray Disc products at CES. The DMP-BD50 will be their first player to support BD-Live and to include on-board decoding of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. The SC-BT100 is their first Home Theater in a Box system to include Blu-ray playback.
At CES in Las Vegas last week, Panasonic wowed the crowd with the world’s largest flat panel HDTV, a plasma model 150 inches corner to corner with four times the resolution of Full HD 1080p (4096×2160 pixels). Also on display were eleven new VIERA plasma models coming in 2008.
With the ongoing writer’s strike, the actual awards ceremony for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards was cancelled. But that didn’t stop the HFPA from picking their winners.
A reader wonders why he is not able to get high definition resolution (above 480p) when connecting a Sony PS3 to an older HDTV with a DVI input.
