The Philips’ ultra wide screen 56-inch HDTV with aspect ration 21:9 was presented in London. Have a look video. It’s really amazing TV! There is still no published specification except information about five HDMI inputs (wow, HD era is already came).
The Cinema 21:9 HDTV is gonna be available this Spring at an estimated £3,000 ($4,276) price tag.
[via Engadget]
Philips introduced its widescreen Cinema 21:9 LCD TV. That the first cinema-proportioned 56″ TV incorporates Ambilight technology. Since there is a lot of movies with 16:9 ratio it’d be interesting to know how Cinema 21:9 will handle them. According to producer it shouldn’t be a problem. It will accurately match “on-screen content to extend the picture beyond the confines of the screen”.
Philips promised to start selling Cinema 21:9 in Europe that Spring. The price and detailed spec are not available at that moment.
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Here is a few models of super thin Full HD TVs demonstrated on CES 2009. The first one is Panasonic’s 0.33-inch thick Neo Eco Plasma. Additionally to its amazing thickness it utilizes 50% less energy than previous Panasonic models.
Recently OmniMount expanded its Low Profile Series of mounts. It added three models of fixed mounts there.
Low Profile Series mounts are available in medium, large, and extra-large models and allow to hang TV just 1.5 inches away from the wall.
Pricing for the new fixed mounts are $149.95 (LPHDM-F), $199.95 (LPHDL-F) and $249.95 (LPHDX-F).
[via CEpro]
Toshiba announced a new line of its LCD TVs. The top of the line ZH500 series measures in at 52- and 46-inches with 120Hz VA panels, 4x HDMI (1080/60p, 24p) inputs, 3x Ethernet (with DLNA support), 2x USB, Bluetooth, Firewire, SD slot and a DVR to record TV shows to the built-in 300GB HDD. If I understand clearly Toshiba added three Ethernet interfaces to have possibility use three external HDD via an I-O Data REGZA drive wrapped in DTCP-IP DRM. Because actually TV cannot be added to home network similar way as PC.
The new Toshiba TVs should be available for buying in May and June with price range from $1580 to $5580 according to their size and specification.
[via Engadget]
