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BackTalk: Dominic Monaghan
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 03, 2006

Anything you can tell me about what happens in Season 3? I just know that there are a few new characters and that we'll be delving into the story of The Others a lot more. And, um, some people are going to be dying, which is, um, interesting. And that's as much as I know.

So nobody is safe? Nobody is safe. That's correct.

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S&V Q&A - October 2006
Ian G. Masters  |  Oct 03, 2006

Techs and Specs

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The Gadget Girl: A skinny media player with a wide screen, and tools to let you boogie like a Blue Man
Jamie Sorcher  |  Oct 03, 2006

Boys love toys, but only if they've got a gimmick - and both of the items I checked out this month do.

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The Ghost of a Machine
David Ranada  |  Oct 03, 2006

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Ghost in the Machine
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

With the image paused, no one in the room saw anything amiss with the SED display from Toshiba/Canon. But the camera has a different take on things.

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I've SED Enough Already
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

Well, I finally saw Toshiba and Canon's joint venture: Surface-Conduction Electronic-Emitter Display. You need all those hyphens or the acronym becomes a very uncatchy SCEED. The fairly large flat panels I saw were showing high contrast, bright colored video and, yes, SED looked great. I didn't understand much in the demo except when key words that make your ears perk up. Things that sound like "contrast" but are followed by things that don't sound like any numbers with which I'm familar.

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A Famous Reviewer
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

This is a reviewer that is famous in Japan. And that's Home Theater's own Geoffrey Morrison standing next to her.

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No Really, Just Put On the Stupid Glasses!
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

While the other JVC products are practically here, their demo of 3D technology, based on some funky glasses and a pair of their 4K projectors (4096 x 2160 pixels), was, what's the term, oh yeah, universe shattering!

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They Call Me "New"
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

I missed a live demo of JVCs new 3-chip 1080p D-ILA (variant of LCOS) projector in CEDIA a few weeks ago by mere minutes. This time they were showing it in comparison with to their older 720p DLA-HX1 projector. No doubt that 1080p is sharper, but that was only the beginning. The new projector is also several factors better, subjectively, in areas of color saturation and blackness. More impressively, the light output on a 115" (diagonal) screen was exhilerating! You can really get a big screen with one of these.

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Making Stuff Up
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006

JVC showed a split screen demo on an LCD. Special processing was performed on the left side to eliminate blurring artifacts, while on the right side it was business as usual. And business as usual for an LCD is typically take every opportunity for turning something with motion into an ugly mess. What JVC did, with the 60Hz video material was to double the frames by creating an interperlated frame between each "real."

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