Category: HDTV
IFA 2007: Humax unveil three LCD IDTVs with integrated digital Hi-Fi sound system
Humax's family of HD ready IDTVs has grown again with the introduction of three new models in two sizes. The three models are the LGB-19DTT, LGB-19DZT and LGB-22DYT, and are being marketed as second TVs for bedroom or kitchen. The…
IFA 2007: The Phillips Aurea
Susi from Shiny Shiny takes a closer look at Phillips Aurea, a new ambient lighting enabled TV that Phillips is convinced will revolutionise television. You can take a look at more coverage from the Phillips press conference here.
IFA 2007: HD-DVD (and Toshiba) bite back
So, yesterday we heard about how Blu-ray s taking over the world. They're winning the war. They're the format of choice. Or are they? I'm here waiting for the Toshiba/HD-DVD press conference to start, and wondering if there's another side to the story….
First up, we get a look at the new stuff coming from Toshiba though.
Ofcom survey: overall TV watching down, digital and HD up
The latest Communications Market Report from Ofcom shows that, overall, Britons are watching slightly less TV than last year, down 4% to 3 hours and 36 minutes per day, but that viewers are watching more digital terrestrial, satellite, and high definition content.
Digital TV of some kind is now in four out of five UK households, while for those 450,000 homes who have access to some kind of high definition content, 33% of their viewing time is spent watching it.
Echoing similar studies in the US, it seems that a significant proportion (43%) of those who do have high definition TV are viewing more as a result , particularly premium content such as films and sport.
Adobe updates Flash Player 9 "Moviestar" to include H.264 video support
Adobe has announced that its popular Flash Player 9, codenamed “Moviestar”, is being updated to include the H.264 / MPEG4 standard video format. This, together with technologies including High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support and hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback, could lead the way to Flash Player being used for high definition content.
It could also have implications for how popular video sharing services such as YouTube and MySpace operate, although YouTube is already moving to the H.264 format used by Quicktime so that videos can be played back on the iPhone, which currently doesn’t have Flash support.
Sony's next BRAVIA ad campaign: The play Doh bunnies. Cute!
Following the San Francisco bouncy balls, and the paint explosions in Glasgow, comes Sony’s third “Colour Like No Other” BRAVIA high definition TV advert.
This time, it’s Play Doh bunnies.
TV Ad Land reports “Play Doh is being staged in New York by Frank Budgen of Gorgeous Enterprises, working with a creative team from Fallon, including creative director Juan Cabral.”
Humax launches two LCD TVs with Freeview Playback
Humax has announced the launch of their 32-inch (LP32-TDR1) and 40-inch (LP40-TDR1) LCD TVs, both of which feature built-in dual tuner digital recorders, and have achieved Freeview Playback status.
We covered the basics of Freeview Playback when we reported on Humax’s PVR-9200 series of DTRs attaining the certification.
LG receives Group 2 Freeview Playback certification for LT75 and PT85 Time Machine TV ranges
Last week we reported that Humax has received Group 2 Freeview Playback certification for its DTRs, and now LG has also received certification, for its LCD and plasma Time Machine TV range.
LG claim that it’s the first company to receive such certification – presumably they mean for TVs otherwise Humax may have something to say about it.
Not that we really care who’s first – it simply means that more equipment has attained one of the latest digital TV standards, and so should improve consumers’ Freeview experience.
Sky HD reveal the worst ever football kits of all time
With the Premiership kicking off this Saturday, Sky is proudly boasting about all the matches it’s squeezed money out of its subscribers to be able to show in high definition.
They’ve also found time to compile the top 10 worst football kits of all time, based on a survey of one thousand UK footie fans.
In first place is the 1992-93 season home shirt for Hull City, whose creator took their “tigers” nickname too literally.
In second place, the infamous grey “our players are camouflaged” 95-96 away strip for Manchester United, which was blamed for their 3-1 defeat at Southampton.
In third place, a variety of strips used by Mexico in the 1990s.
Read on for four to ten.
Built to last? Panasonic high definition plasma TVs will last at least 42 years
Panasonic has published a lifespan statistic for its “full” high definition (1080p) plasma TVs: on average they’ll last at least 42 years before the brightness of the display degrades to less than 50%.
That’s based on an average 6.5 hours viewing every single day – or 100,000 hours in total.
Even its 720p high definition plasma TVs will last for 60,000 hours (around 25 years).
It’s an interesting statistic to highlight, in a fast-paced, needed-to-be-replaced-last-week technology culture, and though I don’t know the exact statistic for people replacing their TVs is, I bet it’s closer to 5-10 years than 42.
