Tag: HD
BBC Trust backs high definition channel
The BBC Trust has provisionally backed plans for the BBC to establish a more permanent high definition channel, after the success of the trial version available to satellite and cable viewers. Offering programmes from across the BBC's existing channels, it…
Feast your eyes on SIM2's Grand Cinema C3X 1080 projector – no drooling!
Trust SIM2 to roll out yet another gorgeous looking projector to join their bevy of beauties, if they keep this up, they’ll have a harem soon enough. Mmm, a harem of glossy 3-chip DLP projectors – don’t get too excited, boys.
The Grand Cinema C3X 1080 not only looks good enough to cuddle for a good few hours, but performs with the excellence SIM2 have been known for for many years now. As you’d expect, it’s a 3-chip DLP-touting device, which has the pleasure…
IFA 07: Video of Samsung's VP-HMX10C HD camcorder
Still at IFA, Ashley has a look at the VP-HMX10C HD camcorder from Samsung which was announced in their press conference in Berlin last week. It’s extremely thin and uses flash memory to store footage…
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.
LG has gone mental and made a TV out of gold
As if TVs weren’t expensive enough already. The new LG home theatre system is plastered with 24 carat gold, and is the most needless, pointless and overpriced innovation in home cinema since Blu-ray and HD-DVD came along.
The ludicrously OTT 71″ set, which uses PDP technology to display its HD pictures…
LG finally cuts price of Super Blu dual format high definition disc player
There’s been something of a price war between rival HD DVD and Blu-ray player manufacturers of late, but until now, dual format players haven’t followed suit.
LG has just announced that it’s to cut the US price of its “Super Blu” BH100 dual format (HD DVD/Blu-ray) player by $200, from $1,199 down to $999.
This may be in response to Samsung’s recent announcement of their BDP-UP5000 player, expected to retail for around $1,049.
BenQ releases three new high definition home cinema projectors
BenQ has announced the launch of three new high definition video projectors in the UK. The W10000, W9000 and W500.
W500
The W500 provides a 5,000:1 contrast ratio, features HQV (Hollywood Quality Video), operates at 28dB, and can project 720p content. It also offers upscaling of standard definition content.
Its Multi-Dimensional Diagonal Filtering technology should prevent ghosting, and it has horizontal and vertical lens shifting, and “professional inputs” – presumably / hopefully this includes HDMI.
It retails for £699.
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Blu-ray film studios launch "Hollywood in Hi-Def" web site
High definition disc formats may not be the most exciting news around, but that’s not stopped companies who support either HD DVD or Blu-ray doing what they can to push their format as the best choice for consumers.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (I think it’s all about home entertainment) have backed a new web site that aims to push Blu-ray as the best choice for watching movies.
It’s called Hollywood in Hi-Def.
Opinion: Can Blu movies make HD exciting?
Jonathan Weinberg writes… IS anyone else bored to tears with the whole Blu-ray v HD-DVD debate. I know I am. Rival film studios and techno firms are falling over themselves to tell us how great their particular new format is,…
Total HD dual-format Blu-ray/HD-DVD discs delayed
Warner’s combined HD-DVD and Blu-ray super disc format it calls Total HD has had its launch pushed back to 2008.
It was hoped the new combined format would appear this year, and would go some way toward ending the ludicrously pointless HD format war…
