Posted on 01/08/2007 12:39:41 PM PST by george76
Televisions grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday with companies showcasing everything from super-sized models for the red-hot LCD market to technology enabling TVs to play video straight from the Internet.
A slew of consumer electronics makers introduced bigger flat-screen TVs, while others highlighted products to enhance viewing, such as a DVD player that could be a bridge between rival formats for next-generation video discs.
Sharp Corp showed off a 108-inch high-definition LCD television to rival a 100-inch model introduced only hours earlier by LG Electronics Inc.
Sharp said its was the biggest yet among liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs.
Other companies looked for ways to make television more engaging and easier to view from anywhere...
Europe's largest electronics maker also showed off bigger models of televisions that light up the wall behind them and introduced amBX, a video game system with a fan to simulate wind, for the North American market.
Japan's Sony Corp took aim at growing consumer appetite for Web-delivered programming with its announcement that the company would equip its TVs with an attachable module that can stream broadband high-definition and other video content with the push of a remote control button.
The four-day CES event, which starts formally on Monday, is the biggest annual U.S. gathering for the $145 billion industry and will draw some 140,000 enthusiasts and retailers to a sprawling exhibition of gadgets to feed consumers' ever-growing arsenal for personal entertainment.
LG introduced a DVD player to support both next-generation, high-definition DVD technologies, offering a solution in an escalating war between Blu-ray and HD DVD. LG said its Super Multi Blu Player would be available in early February in the United States for about $1,200.
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wholesale LCD unit sales are expected to jump 50 percent to $12 billion in 2007 from about $8 billion in 2006.
By contrast, plasma unit sales are seen rising to $6 billion in 2007 from $5.7 billion.
I've been wondering what I could use to fill up a big wall in my family room. Shazzam! 9 feet across. Now that's a TV.
plasma is still less expensive for the same screen size.
It's almost big enough to show all of Hillary's butt!..........
HDTV
8-)
If that's what's showing, I think I'll just buy a 19" low-def TV, and skip the extended warranty, as well.
The "Next Big Thing" is going to be LCD televisions with LED backlights. The backlights can be modulated to increase the contrast ratio of LCDs to better than Plasma specs, with much less power consumption than Plasma.
Shazzam! 9 feet across. Now that's a TV.
......and in living color, 3-D HDTV!............Hillary's Dowdy Thighs Vision........
>>>I've been wondering what I could use to fill up a big wall in my family room. Shazzam! 9 feet across. Now that's a TV.
You can get HD video projectors that will do that. Pricey, though.
Seems to me Dead Pixels would start being a major bitch at these sizes.......
if I am going 108, I'm going overhead projection.
Now I'm really cornfused.
It sort of baffles me that people are buying so many LCDs considering how poor their motion performance and contrast ratios are compared to Plasma for the same price. LCD is great when your watching a static image in an overlit showroom but Plasma gives you a much better overall picture and performance.
As LCDs get bigger, a lotta people are gonna get panel envy.
;-)
108 inches, 400 channels, and nothing on!
The "Next Big Thing" is going to be LCD televisions with LED backlights. The backlights can be modulated to increase the contrast ratio of LCDs to better than Plasma specs, with much less power consumption than Plasma.
I've never tried this but........
The eHow wiki has posted a tutorial for fixing dead pixels on an LCD monitor.
Turn off your computer.
Get yourself a damp cloth, so that you don't scratch your screen.
Apply pressure to the area where the dead pixel is. Do not put pressure anywhere else, as this may make more dead pixels.
While applying pressure, turn on your computer and screen.
Remove pressure and the dead pixel should be gone.
This works as the liquid in the liquid crystal has not spread into each little pixel. This liquid is used with the backlight on your monitor, allowing different amounts of light through which give off different colours.
...looks like a lotta big, swingin' panel talk, to me....
Hmm...I'm thinking it'd make a great garage wall, and then I could watch TV out the window...
Another piece of overpriced electronic junk.Pay 10,000 at store get .50 cents at yard sale.
Is there just a simple FAQ on all flat panels? Like there's 4 wires coming out of these things and my DVD only has 3. How can I wall mount when these 4 wires plug in perpendicular to the unit? Thinking about jumping in but I want the executive good bad summary. From reading here, looks like plasma is the way to go?
That's why not everything I buy needs to be an investment.
Be careful if you go plasma. Not all plasma screens are native HD. They just run 480p. The upside to plasma is the brightness and vivid colors.
"game system with a fan to simulate wind"
Ooooh! That clinches it for me! What a brilliant idea!
Except you need much more light control if you go with a projector.
Think 'consumables'. Like toilet paper. It's not necessarily an investment item.
I love my new Panasonic plasma
You need to learn a whole bunch of new buzz words. Like HDMI and Component Analog. You're going to want to connect your DVD and your HD cable box and your kids new XBox 360 to your television set, but all of them want to use the same Y-Pb-Pr connection, of which your new set only has one.
Or you're going to find out that your new Dish HD receiver only puts out HD on the digital HDMI output, but your new set only has DVI input.
Then there's the whole problem with switching the audio to go with the video, and how you will decode the Dolby Digital surround sound from the cable box, the dvd player, and the XBox when your existing home stereo only has one Dolby Digital input (assuming it even has one at all. If not, there's another new purchase in your future!)
Plasma and LCD both have their advantages and disadvantages. Plasma is usually brighter and sharper than LCD, but is physically much heavier and uses much more power. Plasmas also suffer from burn-in, which means don't leave it tuned to the weather channel all day, or the weather channel logo will get burned into the screen.
LCDs don't suffer from burn-in, but are less bright, have a lower contrast ratio (the ratio between the brightest and darkest parts of the picture) and suffer in the blacks.
Go to Best Buy/Circuit City/Good Guys/Whatever and LOOK at all the sets to decide which is best for you and your budget.
Oh and one more thing, whatever you buy, plan on buying another one to replace it within 7 years. The Consumer Electronics Association wants to wean you off of buying a new television once every 15 years, and get that down to 7 or less.
Good luck!
(P.S. for the sets that are designed to be optionally wall mounted, all of the connectors are recessed into the back of the set and point so that the cables are parallel to the wall.)
"game system with a fan to simulate wind"
That is worth thousands $$
If I'm going with a screen as wide as an RV, trust me, I am going to have a dedicated room for it.. light control is a non issue.
15 years? I fart in your general direction...
If a TV doesn't last reliably so long that your kids think its from the stone age before it dies you got ripped off!
I've been researching flat panels since my 27'' RCA went out in December after maybe 8 years, and boy, am I confused. Yeah, Consumer Reports, CNET, PC World, consumersearch.com, and other places have their recommendations, pros and a host discouraging cons, as nothing's perfect, and if it's perfect in picture and sound quality, it usually lacks in connectivity or tuner options, which I think are fairly important. And what do all these acronyms mean? Insist on two HDMI inputs or is one plenty? Or none? Would luv to have video output, but that is rare.
Must have PC input, but does it have to be called 'PC INPUT' to allow PC input? And so on. I got a massive headache, and finally gave up for the time being. Waiting for new, more perfect models.
ahhh...
a booth bunny
8-)
"How close can you sit ( or how far away ) ?"
12 feet would be optimal.
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I got a massive headache, and finally gave up for the time being.
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
I have a 1280x1024 computer projector I bought on ebay and use it to project movies and TV on the wall 6 feet wide.
It is amazing the detail you miss from a small TV, and even though this is not even close to HDTV resolution the picture is amazingly fun to watch
(got a set of bose 901's on ebay too... home theatre heaven)
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