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CEDIA 2009

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

Pioneer's Project ETAP is intended to lead to a product that will provide a wide range of home management and media storage and access. In addition to downloading, streaming, and storage of all variety of program material (the 1TB of on-board storage can be supplemented by external hard drives), it will likely offer additional core features, including those listed in the following blog entry.

CEDIA 2009

Pioneer ETAP II

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

Here are some of the major features anticipated for Pioneer's ETAP system. It's the BD Managed Copy that intrigues us most, and Pioneer conducted the first US public demo of this feature here at CEDIA. Managed copy allows suitably flagged BDs to be downloaded to a hard drive for storage and play back in full high definition. It is expected to begin showing up on some BD discs within the next year, though it will require a special BD player/recorder to make use of it. Studios can also charge for the privilege if they like. Since no current BDs are so encoded, none of your current collection can be copied.

CEDIA 2009

Anthem Blu-ray

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

Anthem has its first Blu-ray player, the Anthem Statement BLX200 ($800). It offers all the features of most BD machines, including Profile 2.0 with 1GB of memory and Internal decoding of the new high rez audio formats (or bitstream out if you prefer). If you're asking, like most BD players it does not play SACD or DVD-Audio.

CEDIA 2009

Anthem Projectors

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

The new Anthem Statement LTX 500v and LTX 300v projectors look a lot like the new JVC DLA-HD550 and DLA-HD950, and that's because they are, with small cosmetic differences. The Anthems are also slightly more expensive.

CEDIA 2009

Come Rain or Come Shine

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

The folks from SunBrite make the best sun and rainproof TVs I've ever seen. In fact, they make the ONLY sun and rainproof TVs I've ever seen. But then, I don't get out much.

CEDIA 2009

Accell Locks It Up

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

The folks from Accell make great HDMI switchers and splitters, but they also do cables, and while I visited there they handed me a sample of their new locking HDMI cables, a relatively new category and one long overdue.

CEDIA 2009

Big Mits

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009 | First Published: Sep 11, 2009

As the biggest entry in its premier line of DLP rear projection HDTVs, not to mention that Mitsubishi is the last holdout in this product category, this set has to grab attention. When I was there, however, there were more passers-by than onlookers. A shame; it offers a lot for the money if you want a really big screen and space is not an issue.

JVC DLA-HD750 Front Projector

Brent Butterworth | Sep 10, 2009

The Short Form

$7,999 / JVC.com

Snapshot

CEDIA 2009

They're Everywhere

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009

LCD televisions with LED backlighting were all over the show (but c'mon Toshiba and others, they are LCD TVs with a new form of backlighting, NOT LED TVs), and Toshiba's 670 series with local dimming are among the best. We know, because you'll see a review of one in our November 2009 issue.

CEDIA 2009

Choose Your Flavor

Tom Norton | Sep 10, 2009

AudioQuest showed a desert menu of HDMI cables, though we don't know how gemstones fit into the mix. Now you can have a chocolate mid-brightness region on your HDTV.

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