Sharp and Pioneer bring back the Pioneer Elite Display HDTVs

Some of you might remember the Pioneer Elite display, at the time, it was considered one of the coolest of its time.

However, their was a lot of cheap LCD and plasmas, and the market wasn’t too high for it back in 2009. During that year, Pioneer decided to pull the plug on it, and many wept.

However, Sharp is licensing the Elite brand from Pioneer, with the two companies jointly marketing the product line. The models will have the Elite branding, sans Sharp or Pioneer.

You should be seeing these Elite HDTV soon, but there is no word of availability or price.

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   Tags: Elite, pioneer, sharp  This entry was posted on Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 6:18 pm and is filed under HDTV / Projection TV, pioneer, sharp. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Welcome to the age of 200 inch glasses-free 3D display

We have been reporting on a lot of big screens lately, like the 10-meter “reality touchscreen” and the Barco NX4 3D Video Wall.

Now, there is NICT’s 200-inch glasses-free 3D display, I suppose that the bigger the screen, the better the 3D effect.

According to my Source, NICT is working on three things that are plaguing 3D like “stripe noise, reduction in 3D resolution and unnatural images due to the observer’s movement”.

Here’s what else my Source had to say:

Using LED light sources, special diffuser film and a condenser lens, NICT was able to enhance brightness and color uniformity between projector units, thereby reducing the stripe noise and resolution degradation.

Well, once again, we are reporting on a screen that I just really want to have in my home.

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   Tags: 200 inch 3D screen, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT  This entry was posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 6:28 pm and is filed under 3d, HDTV / Projection TV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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XBR-52HX900 Class Bravia 52″ 1080p 240Hz 3D LED HDTV

The Sony BRAVIA XBR-HX900 is a high definition television thats just one of the models in the companys HX900 line. The HX900 HDTV with Intelligent Dynamic LED backlight is different from other models as it has a full HD display with 1920x1080p resolu...

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Sony’s new TV can give two pictures to two viewers

Sony has recently announced the development of a technology called dual-view, which allows two different viewers to see two different images.

I suppose that this could be used for when two different viewers want to watch two different shows, but they will have to wear headphones so they don’t hear each each others’ audio.

It would appear that Sony wants to market this for gamers. So if two people are playing a game with a split screen, the screen would not have to split.

At a recent press conference, where Sony showed off this technology, the company warned that “this will make your eyes hurt”. Clearly, some more development is required. Until then, the results are like 3D.

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     This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:39 pm and is filed under HDTV / Projection TV, Sony. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Skype for the iPhone is going to work on TVs, too

Normally, when I report on Skype, I usually am doing that on mobilewhack. However, a recent announcement from the VoIP company has stated that the iPhone App will be working with Skype-enabled TVs.

So, if you have a Skype-enabled TV (which probably isn’t many users), you will have that option of using Skype video chats. That is a good decision for Skype, as it will be coming to Android and possibly Windows Phone 7.

If you don’t have Skype for your iPhone as yet, all you need to do is head over to the iTunes App Store and get it.

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   Tags: Skype, Skype for TVs  This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 at 6:52 pm and is filed under HDTV / Projection TV, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Sony Expands BRAVIA Lineup with 3 New HDTVs

Sony has just come forth to announce three new additions to their BRAVIA HDTV line up including the 22-inch KDL-22EX42H, the 32-inch KDL-32EX42H and the 40-inch KDL-40EX52H. The 40-incher features an LED edge-lit display with 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution, 2 TV tuners, 3 HDMI ports, an ethernet port  and a price tag of $1,800. The 22-incher and the 32-incher both both feature a 720p HD resolution and will run $1,100 and $1,340, respectively.

Another interesting feature is that each of these televisions feature a built-in 500GB hard drive that will allow you to transfer content to and from external harddrives thanks to a built-in USB port.

Unfortunately, there’s no word on when these will be coming to North America as they are only listed with a March 20th Japanese release date.

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   Tags: Bravia, kdl-22ex42h, kdl-32ex42h, kdl-40ex52h, Sony  This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at 11:01 am and is filed under HDTV / Projection TV, Sony. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Toshiba Debuts Dual-Core Z2 LED HDTVs & Regza Android App – Exclusive Initially to Japan

There is a constant war going on between the industry’s various hardware manufacturers to get the most high end, technologically advanced products onto the market between their competitors.  From this war we’ve seen over the top creations like Panasonic’s 103-inch 3D Plasma TV priced at a mind numbing $100,000. With a price tag like that, it’s quite obviously assumed that many consumers won’t be able to afford such a thing. Luckily, Toshiba has just come forth today to announce a line up of televisions that won’t cost $100,00 but will include a dual-core processor dubbed the CEVO Engine. Thanks to this chip, Toshiba’s Z2 series of LED HDTVs will be capable or reducing input lag while in ‘Game Mode’ to just 0.7 frames – just to give you a glimpse of its power.

Additionally, Toshiba has also taken the time to announce that the current iOS exclusive Regza app will be making its way to Google’s Android mobile platform along with Microsoft’s Windows. Unfortunately, at this time, the app is still only available in Japan so we’ll have to keep you posted on that front.

As for a release date for the dual-core powered Toshiba Z2 series, those will be shipping later this month – also exclusive to Japan.

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   Tags: android, app, dual core, hdtv, ios, iPhone, regza, toshiba, Windows, z2  This entry was posted on Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 5:40 pm and is filed under HDTV / Projection TV, toshiba. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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