Immersive is taking Faroudja straight on
with its new Simmetry DVD transport that has an on-board scaler. Look
for full motion adaptive support for 1080i next year. |
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After wowing us at last
year's show, the Samsung SP700, officially endorsed by Joe Kane, is
finally shipping. |
Theta Casablanca III with new upgrades. |
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Mirage outdoor speakers. |
Paradigm showed off their new line of low
priced speakers that have a silver gray finish. |
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JVC has begun to make
speaker cones from thin slices of wood. |
Everyone is making Home Theater in a Box
systems, now. This one is from Tannoy. |
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Paradigm has revised their
Monitor Speaker Series - it is now v.4 - by improving the crossover
network. |
Theta Digital has some very big monoblock
power amplifiers. |
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Mass market manufacturers
are coming out with huge receivers. This one is an Integra. |
Another trend is components with a silver
finish, like these from Meridian. |
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There were lots of new
projectors. This is the Panasonic PT-AE700-U. |
And this one from Epson, the Cinema 200. |
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Hitachi's new 50VX915 High
Definition RPTV has very clean lines. |
Fujitsu is now in the front projector market
with their new LPF-D711WW 1080p LCD projector. MSRP: $25,000. |
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Joe Kane hosted a session
showing Windows Media 9 being played back through a Samsung projector
and a Stewart Grayhawk screen. |
There were a number of three-chip DLP
projectors, including this one, the model X3, from DreamVision. They are
all still pricey though. |
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Brad Marcus, of
BetterCables.com, brought his father to help out with the booth. |
Sony has a new Dark Screen that they will be
marketing soon, which has superb contrast, even in rooms with ambient
lighting. It should be beautiful with their new HS-51 projector that
adjusts the iris automatically in dark scenes, to give a high dynamic
range. There was some lighting in the room where this demo was held. The
right 1/3 of the screen in the photo is standard screen material, and
you can see how washed out the image is. The left 2/3 of the screen is
the Sony Dark Screen material. |
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McIntosh premiered their new MX-135 SSP. |
Harman-Kardon showed their latest mid-priced
receivers, the AVR-435 and AVR-635. |
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JL Audio's Gotham subwoofer looks like an engine to a
formula race car. |
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