According to Gizmodo, the quality of the wireless HDTV’s demonstrated at CES was indistinguishable from its wired counterparts. Sporting 1080p resolutions, high contrast ratios and a suspicious lack of wires, these TVs could make it a whole lot easier to set up a home theater. I’m all for progress, but I don’t think I will be strapping one of these to my wall until the power cord is as wireless as the rest of it, though.
Without a release date, this is just a piece of eye candy that we can’t touch - but what eye candy! Its 11” counterpart is ready to hit the streets for a steep $2,500. The 3mm thick TV is hardly thicker then a credit card!
My experience with the Optoma HD70 was an extremely positive one. The setup was quick and painless, the picture is huge and the image quality is excellent. If you’ve ever wanted something bigger then a traditional LCD or Plasma screen without an enormous, ugly CRT or front-projection set; a projector is the way to go and if you’re on a budget, you can’t do much better then the Optoma HD70. I bought the HD70 from Best Buy using a 10% off coupon and when bundled with a home-theater system, I ended up paying about $1300 in all for the projector and a Yamaha 5.1 surround sound system.
It used to be that a projector came with drawbacks like big pixels, low resolution and a picture not equal to traditional hdtvs. These days, that is not the case. The HD70 (native 720P) looks every bit as good as a smaller HD set but with a giant, brilliant picture.
It is very bright and as compared to the projectors of yesterday, surprisingly light and compact. Like everything good in life, it does have some drawbacks. The audibility is not phenomenal, and for those who compliment their picture with very quiet sound, you may want to turn the volume up. The projector’s fan is very audible over soft music and movies. In normal conditions, it will not be but its something to keep in mind. Also, the heat may bother some in very enclosed areas because it does put off quite a bit of heat from its exterior fans.
If you can ignore the small drawbacks, nothing beats the enormous size and quality of a projector and if you do choose to go that route, the HD70 is an excellent choice.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has developed a 150-inch plasma display TV panel–the world’s largest, according to sources.
Matsushita, which is best known for its Panasonic brand, will introduce a prototype model of the television at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held next month in the United States. Commercial release is slated for 2009.
At present, in terms of commercially produced TVs, Matsushita’s 103-inch plasma is the world’s largest, behind Sharp Corp.’s prototype 108-inch liquid crystal TV.
The new 150-inch display, which is about two meters by about 3.5 meters, is big enough to display a full-scale adult. Retail price, which is undecided, is expected to greatly exceed the 103-inch model’s 6 million yen price tag.
Panasonic is no stranger to the huge-tv game. At the 2006 CES, they introduced the first 103” Plasma TV. Frankly, theres a point where plasma TV’s become too big and too hot to be practical for any use.
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