THE PARADE OF THE NEWEST TECHNOLOGY!Finally we can see the future and frankly, it’s exciting. In the Home Theater biz, the only constant is change.
You can almost always be assured what you buy now will be superceded in a short time by something even better and usually cheaper too. We eagerly await the new SONY SXRDs out this fall, with 1080P inputs and lower prices.
A survey cited on our home theater blog says that many people who have HDTVs aren’t happy with them because they aren’t actually watching HDTV and don’t know it. Now that’s an eye opener for the selling system out there in retail land, isn’t it!? 28% of HDTV owners reported that they did not get any special equipment from their service provider to watch HDTV channels because the picture quality was already improved with the purchase of an HDTV!
Won’t they be surprised when they hook up an HD or Blu-Ray DVD player and play a great Hi Def movie!
Some developments are about to break into the supply chain and wow us all:
Everything is going wireless!More wireless: from Avega, the world’s first Wi-Fi surround speaker system. HANNSvidilink: wireless tv transmitter and receiver – feed the whole house. Wireless (ultra wideband) HD streaming is coming via the EWC (Enhanced Wireless Consportium) which has agreed to specs. Circa 2007 chipsets will make wires go away.
Tiny Amplifiers! We’ve already glommed onto Class D amplifiers – they are tiny, powerrful, efficient and cool and soon to be everywhere.
SEDSED… (surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) is like Plasma, but better. Toshiba and Canon have been sleeping together! 100,000:1 contrast ratio promised! 1ms response time!
HIGH DEF DVD audioDolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master – the sound side of new high def DVDs to blow you away!
Goodbye Color wheel and projection bulb replacement!Phlatlight photonic lattice! This is a solid state light source which will replace projecvtion bulbs. Single chip RPTV DLPs will no longer need a color wheel, because the lights can switch much faster (8x) than the color wheel. Good for 20,000 hours with no fade! (Red, Green and Blue LEDS)
SUPER DUPER HIGHEST DEFDING DING DING! Westinghouse has a quad prototype LCD panel with 4 times the res of 1080P!
You can almost hold your breath
Blu-Ray DVD is delayed till fall 2006.
And last but not least!
SONY claims to have a technology which will deliver pictures and sound to your brain without screens or speakers. Years away, but... (patents #6,536,440 and 6,729,337)
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