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In the Future, Everyone Will Be A Director!
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

In the first half of 2007, JVC will bring out a true HD camcorder. The camcorder will have a hard drive built in so you can forget about tapes forever. The size of the drive, unknown, but I wouldn't be surprised if would hold at least a "vacation's" worth of video at its 1920 x 1080 resolution. The camera has 10X optical zoom and they had one setup filming a rotating flower display while they showed it on a 1080 plasma. With the "source material" there for direct comparison, the cam looked better than anything I've seen in a consumer format. No price yet.

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Making Stuff Up
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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They Call Me "New"
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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No Really, Just Put On the Stupid Glasses!
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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A Famous Reviewer
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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I've SED Enough Already
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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Ghost in the Machine
Fred Manteghian  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  0 comments

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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A Crippling Assumption
Fred Manteghian  |  Sep 26, 2006  |  0 comments

True or False?

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Using Simple Products You'll Find Around Your House
Fred Manteghian  |  Sep 23, 2006  |  0 comments

Out with the old and in with the new.

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Ear Plugs for iPods
Fred Manteghian  |  Sep 19, 2006  |  0 comments

Sennheiser, makers of some fantastic headphones, now make a $79 in-ear earphone. With soft silicon tips, these won't abrade your ears like the crap Apple gives you with their $300 player.

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