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.
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