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Editor's HDTV Pick

HP 47 inch MediaSmart 1080p LCD HDTV "Out of the box" digital media platform. Enjoy videos, pictures and music from home network + digital media delivered over your broadband Internet connection + 3 x HDMI

Something that is striking with Viewsonic’s new DLP projectors specifications is the longer than usual three year warranty and the exceptionally long one year lamp warranty (four times the standard 90 days). Given that Viewsonic also advertises a long 4,000 hour lamp life, it offers a potential purchaser cost over life reductions and peace of mind.

In releasing five new models, ViewSonic seems to want to push on with its reported position, by Decision Tree Consulting Worldwide, of the fastest growing projector brand in the market in the first half of 2007. The five new projectors are the PJ557D, PJ559D, PJ560D, PJ551D and PJ260D which are being targeted at both educators and business professionals.
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The HP Digital Media Receiver enables consumers to browse their favorite digital music and photos stored on their personal computers using only a standard remote control. The HP Digital Media Receivers, the and, provide access to digital content from a PC on a user’s wired Ethernet (EN5000) or wireless 802.11b (EW5000) home network. The HP Digital Media Receiver provides an out-of-the-box solution for converting a HDTV (or stereo) into a platform for enjoying what for most consumers is a rapidly growing archive of digital content including video, images and music stored on various PCs.

Without any effort from the user, the HP Digital Media Receiver will automatically discover and aggregate all digital music and photos from one or many networked PCs and presents them in an simple-to-use TV menu. The HP Digital Media Receiver comes with composite video, S-Video and RCA audio connection options.
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Projectors with document cameras offer presenters the extra flexibility to display photo samples, specimens, printed documents, microscopic images, transparencies and all manner of material samples along with a slide presentation.

Toshiba’s new TLP-XC2500AU LCD projector has 2500 ANSI lumens of brightness and a 400:1 contrast ratio which make it suitable for projecting images in venues with considerable ambient light. Native resolution is the fairly standard XGA 1024×768 resolution expected of a projector intended for business or educational customers
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Phones with in-built projectors should be available by 2009 according to a report by CNN. The micro projection technology is PicoP, the result of a July deal between Microvision and Motorola to develop a mobile device projection engine. Not only will it allow video for mobile devices to be viewed in a larger format but also applications such as portable navigation software for GPS enabled smartphones.

In September, Microvision picked up the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation partly in recognition of a bi-directional MEMS scanning mirror design to be integrated in its PicoP projection engine. It’s no small achievement to project a suitably large image with the low power available in mobile devices. Microvision are intending to pursue the incorporation of the PicoP into other applications such as a heads-up display for a car GPS navigation device.

Other micro projection technologies are in development including Digismart, a patented technology from Digislide.

Technorati Tags: micro projection technology, PicoP, Microvision, bi-directional MEMS scanning mirror

The short throw capability of BenQ’s newly launched MP771 DLP projector is being emphasized in BenQ’s marketing. The MP771 is actually the first of a series of new projectors which will share the short throw feature. Having a short throw distance makes the MP771 suitable for use in cramped spaces which would have projectors with a longer throw producing an unacceptably small image. As an example of its capability, it is able to project a 74-inch image from only one meter.

Other features providing the MP771 with flexibility of use are the high 3000 ANSI lumens brightness and Wall Color Correction Technology allowing it to project acceptably bright and clear images in bright ambient lighting and against colored walls respectively. A high 2000:1 contrast ratio boosted by the Unishape Lamp Lighting technology will provide images with sharper detail.
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New content providers will bring Internet video to Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link service for download by users with BRAVIA HDTVs equipped with the optional BRAVIA Internet Video Link. New content providers to join Yahoo!, AOL and Crackle include:

• CondéNet - four new Internet channels later this month, offering award-winning fashion content from Style.com, lifestyle content from Men.Style.com, food/dining content from Epicurious.com, and travel content from Concierge.com
• Sports Illustrated - opening with the magazine’s annual swimsuit issue including behind the scenes videos and interviews and other sports content at a later date
• blip.tv - the recently launched social media Internet channel will bring content from Rocketboom, Unleashed, Break a Leg, Alive in Baghdad, Goodnight Burbank and Geek Entertainment TV
• Sony Pictures - two new Sony Pictures Internet channels add televisions programs and promotional trailers with a focus on shorter programs

The good news for potential purchasers is that the Sony provided videos are free if you have a BRAVIA HDTV and the optional BRAVIA Internet Video Link module.

Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link is a small, attachable module which will fit to the back of a majority of the company’s 2007 BRAVIA television models, including all of the post June shipment BRAVIA LCD flat-panel TVs. The module provides convergence between your HDTV and the Internet plugging directly into an Ethernet connection.

It will be interesting to see what market leverage content provision will provide Sony with sale of their HDTVs. The concept of Internet delivered video content is sure to gain a boost from a new light detector developed by Intel as reported by Technology Review. It will enable three core components of telecom networks to be manufactured from silicon using standard processing techniques, cutting costs compared to existing technology by hundreds of times. Resulting significantly cheaper Internet bandwidth will fuel Internet-HDTV convergent technologies such as Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link and HP’s MediaSmart 1080p LCDs.

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Hitachi have released the StarBoard FX-Duo-77 multi-touch Interactive Whiteboard which feature the ability for users to collaborate using the board at the same time (two points of contact). The board can be operated using hand gestures such as the spreading apart of two fingers (no special pens or pointers required) to enlarge an on-screen object. Another useful feature is the selection of 24 customizable side buttons for quick operation of common tasks without navigating software menus. For peace of mind, Hitachi have contained the all FX-Duo-77 electronics in a replaceable component and covered it with a five-year warranty.

All StarBoards come with Hitachi Software’s StarBoard Software which includes a suite of presentation and conferencing utility tools and applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint. As with other interactive whiteboards the StarBoard Software includes interactive annotation tools, both handwriting and geometric object recognition capability and LAN or WAN networked conferencing features.

If you are unfamiliar with Interactive Whiteboards you might like to read Presentation Technology Reviews overview of their features and capabilities.

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Toshiba’s REGZA HL167 Full HD (1080p) LCD televisions have a gloss black cabinet with compact twin 20W bottom mounted speakers. Toshiba’s new “Soundstrip” speaker technology allows for a thin speaker design with enhanced dynamic range without losing any home theater sound quality. Toshiba have put an above average sound system into the REGZA range.

All the Toshiba REGZA LCD HD TV series have integrated ATSC/NTSC and QAM digital television tuners for broadcast TV and U.S. Cable TV. The viewing angle for REGZA LCD TVs is 176 degrees providing flexibility in seating layout. Response time is important for reducing motion blur and at 8ms REGZA models are behind the blistering 4ms or Sharp AQUOS LCDS but match the Sony BRAVIA.
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Toshiba’s REGZA LX177 Cinema Series models are Full High Definition (1080p) LCD televisions. The Cinema Series has been a well received release by Toshiba having picked up awards from Pacific Media Associates in their “Buckaroo winners for best-of-show products at CEDIA 2007” and from Electronic House consumer publication (for Toshiba REGZA 57LX177).

The Toshiba LX177 REGZA models have a gloss black cabinet with dimensions made smaller by the compact size of the twin 20W bottom mounted speakers. Toshiba’s new “Soundstrip” speaker technology allows for a thin speaker design with enhanced dynamic range without losing any home theater sound quality. If your new television needs to fit into a tight space or you wish to maximize your viewing area for the space available, the RF REGZA models have even smaller dimensions with an impressively narrow surrounding bezel of less than 1 inch.
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The release of 3-D movies such as Meet the Robinsons and Harry Potter have introduced movie goers to the modern cinema 3-D experience. Other big budget 3-D movie projects in development such as Beowulf and the long awaited Avatar by James Cameron should ignite a wider spread consumer desire for a 3-D home entertainment solution.

TriDef’s 3D DLP (Digital Light Processors) HDTV accessory packs are one solution for watching the latest high definition 3-D movies and PC games on 3-D enabled DLP HDTVs. TriDef’s 3-D, technically termed “stereoscopic” vision, is based on each eye being exposed to slightly different perspectives (left and right eye perspectives). Our brain works the magic of fusing the images together into a single image (just as they do with our normal vision) with perceived depth.
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