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Olevia LCDs Up The Refresh Rate For Smooth Motion
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Although no products were officially announced, Olevia demonstrated prototype LCDs with a 120Hz refresh rate that produced noticeably smoother motion compared to the 60Hz model next to it.

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Upconverting HDMI iPod Dock From Meridian
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Meridian has noticed something that many companies haven't- the current iPod is a video playback device. Meridian's MV-D1 dock not only allows your AV system to control the iPod and hear the music, it features component and HDMI outputs with built-in scaling up to 1080p!

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Fox and MGM Blu-ray '07 Releases
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Fox and MGM joined the Blu-ray studios in ramping up its support for the HD format in a major way. It announced that its major release titles will be day and date with DVD from now on, including movies currently in theaters like <I>Night at the Museum</I> and <I>Eragon</I> when they're released to home video later this year.

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Disney's '07 Blu-ray Lineup
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

2007 is shaping up to be an insane year in next-gen HD on a disc. There's been so many significant announcements to follow, I didn't even have time to post on Disney's impressive Blu-ray lineup for the first half of 2007. There are some very impressive catalog titles coming in, and here they are.

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New Thermaltake HTPC Cases
John Higgins  |  Jan 09, 2007
Thermaltake showed a new HTPC case – the Mozart iP – to go with their already released Mozart Sx. The new addition incorporates a front door that opens to reveal an iPod dock (hence the iP name). The iPod nav wheel is still accessible through a hole in the chassis and there are adapters depending on which iPod model you own. It should be available Q2 with pricing TBA.
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Snell's ICS 1030 A True Work Of Art!
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Now that's a bookshelf speaker! The ICS designation indicates that this speaker is designed with in-cabinet use in mind, Snell's ICS 1030 LCR speaker is a work of art. Literally. Snell works with a talented artist and will paint any scene the customer wishes on the grill to make the speaker disappear into its environment. The speaker pictured here is obviously painted like a set of books and the effect is nothing short of striking.

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iPod Video Dock to 1080p
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jan 09, 2007
Meridian showed off an iPod video dock (MV-D1) that upconverts the 320-by-240 or 640-by-480 video to 1080p via HDMI or 1080i via component. For either video when you’re on the go or on the go video in your home. A neat idea, though admittedly odd coming from a ultra-high-end audio company like Meridian.
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HD DVD Interactivity Soars
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Microsoft's Kevin Collins staged a couple of impressive demonstrations of interactivity features upcoming from HD DVD.

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More On HD DVD Forecasts
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2007

Tough talk isn't confined to the Blu-ray camp when it comes to sales forecasting and some impressive data on current titles.

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New Sony LCDs and Prototype SXRD
Randy Tomlinson  |  Jan 09, 2007

Sony showed this giant 82” LCD prototype, which featured LED backlighting and XVycc color space, but you can actually buy a 70” model (for $33,000) with similar technology. A special SXRD rear-projection prototype was powered by a laser rather than a light bulb and was only 10” deep. While there were many claimed advantages of using a laser as a light source, I found something just a bit wrong-looking about the picture on the SXRD prototype. The current SXRDs looked great as did the LCD sets.

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