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Slim, High Frame Rate SXRD Rear Projectors From Sony
 |  Jun 06, 2007  | 

Sony today unveiled its 2007 line of SXRD microdisplay rear projection televisions. There are five new models, 1080p each and every one, and the big new features are slimmer front to back profiles and Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate technology.

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Sony Introduces Nine New BRAVIA Flat Panels
 |  Jun 06, 2007  | 

Sony announced nine new BRAVIA LCD flat panel HDTVs today. The new models are in screen sizes of 40", 46", and 52" in both the W and XBR series. All are full 1080p, with 10-bit panels with 10-bit processing, and, in some models, Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate technology and x.v.Color.

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Sony Blu-ray Player Hits Stores $100 Cheaper
 |  Jun 06, 2007  | 

Sony's BDP-S300 second-gen Blu-ray Disc player started shipping to retailers this week at a list price of $499, a full $100 cheaper than its previously announced price. With the $499 20GB PlayStation3 no longer in production, the BDP-S300 is now the cheapest Blu-ray Disc player available.

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HES 2007 Scores a Home Run
HT Staff  |  Jun 05, 2007  | 
The Home Entertainment Show 2007 held May 11-13, 2007, at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in New York City, will be remembered by exhibitors, consumers, and visiting media as a well-attended showcase of some of the finest home-entertainment products available.
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Consumers to Cable: You Stink
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 04, 2007  | 
Consumers aren't happy with their TV providers. Cable and satellite television companies have scored the lowest of any sector of industry in the latest American Consumer Satisfaction Index.
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Pirates BDs Outselling The Matrix
 |  Jun 03, 2007  | 

In a story line that's becoming all too familiar for HD DVD supporters, news circulated on the web late last week showing that the Blu-ray release of the first two <I>Pirates of the Caribbean</I> movies are handily outselling the HD DVD box set releases of <I>The Matrix</I> by better than three to one. Home Media Magazine was the source of these estimates, pegging the combined sales for the <I>Pirates</I> flicks at over 47,000 total units with the sales of the two <I>Matrix</I> trilogy sets at just under 14,000 total units.

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Managed Copy on the Way
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 01, 2007  | 
The entertainment industry has always been dead set against home recording. However, in what potentially may be a major departure, the security specs for Blu-ray and HD DVD may soon be altered to allow legal copying under limited circumstances.
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Patent Troll Menaces DTV Standard
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 31, 2007  | 
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, cable operators and television networks may have to pay out huge amounts of money to a private company if they want to go on delivering digital television in the government-approved DTV standard.
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SED Bites The Dust
 |  May 31, 2007  | 

After months of legal wrangling and no-shows at trade shows, Toshiba and Canon ended the suspense late last week and announced that the introduction of the SED (Surface-conducting electron-Emitter Display) flat panel TV is postponed indefinitely.

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Runco Acquired by Planar
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 29, 2007  | 
Runco, arguably the high-end projection television brand, has been acquired by Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar Systems in a cash deal worth $36.7 million.
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Blade Runner, Kubrick Films Coming To HD
 |  May 27, 2007  | 

Warner slipped a tantalyzing insert into the <I>The Ultimate Matrix Collection</I> box set released earlier this week, a two-sided affair offically announcing that <I>Blade Runner</I> will hit HD DVD this October on one side and touting a "Kubrick Collection" as coming soon to both HD DVD and Blu-ray on the other.

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Patent Suit Hits Blu-ray
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 25, 2007  | 
Blu-ray has reached another milestone. The infant format has attracted its first patent lawsuit, reports GameSpot.
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PS3 Update Adds DVD Upconversion, 24p Output
 |  May 24, 2007  | 

By chance last night I downloaded firmware version 1.8 for the Sony PlayStation3 and took some time to see if any new significant video features were added (a gamer I'm not). Lo and behold, two very significant updates were indeed found in the menus: the PS3 can now upconvert DVDs, and it offers 24p output.

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CEA to NAB: We Got Your Boxes Right Here
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 24, 2007  | 
Members of the Consumer Electronics Association will support the transition to digital television with timely delivery of digital-to-analog set-top convertors, the head of the organization says in response to a public challenge from the National Association of Broadcasters.
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Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition?
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 22, 2007  | 
TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television.
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