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Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 04, 2006
Here’s a nicely blurry side view of JVC’s thin RPTV. This is headed for our shores, though at the moment there’s no price or even a model number. It’s about 10-inches thick.
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 04, 2006
Hitachi has a line of products in Japan called WOOO. You read that right. The WOOO line of DVD Recorders with hard drives is about a stylish product I’ve seen. It looks like a BMW M1. The shot here is the version with a Blu-ray drive. I doubt we’ll see either here.
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

Pioneer blew everyone away with their new 60" plasma prototypes. They claim better than 20,000:1 contrast. They say they can't measure it any higher given todays test equipment. I wonder what Toshiba is using to measure the 50,000:1 contrast they claim they've achieved with SED?

Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

Google won't let me get to www.google.com. It forces me to www.google.co.jp when I use my Mozilla Firefox browser.

Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

Mitsubishi, Philips, Sharp, Panasonic, Pioneer and Hitachi were showing protype BluRay players they think they might build.

Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

I remember Luxman products fondly. In the eighties, they had a classy look and feel that set them apart from many of their Japanese counterparts.

Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

Microsoft's HDMI-less HD-DVD-less XBox 360 has a tumor of an add-on. For $200, you can only play HD-DVD discs <i>through </i> your 360's component output. The sign in front of the unit summarizes my thoughts on the subject succinctly.

Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 04, 2006

The blue packaging used for BluRay releases in the US market is skipped in Japan.

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