CES tråden.

[Fredtoft]

B&W skulle have noget spændende nyt at vise frem på CES i næste uge.
http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/02/bowers-and-wilkins-to-unveil-groundbreaking-new-product-at-ces/#continued

Det bliver sikkert så stor en nyhed, at man er nødt til at tage 3-4 billeder af det, og sætte dem sammen i det horisontale plan....

[Raskolnikov]

Pioneer fremviser Blu Ray lyd sammen med Sheffield Sound Labs?!

Technical Audio Devices (TAD), a subsidiary of Pioneer, has a little something to show audiophiles that may lure them away from their CD
transports yet -- a new 2-channel audio format for Blu-ray discs that
it unapologetically claims "rivals 2-channel analog sound." We're not
sure if that means reel-to-reel or vinyl
is in the crosshairs, but the company is putting its apparently-unnamed
format up for demo at CES. The demos are being hosted by none other
than audiophile classic Sheffield Labs recording engineers Bill Schnee
and Doug Sax, who have picked out some choice cuts to be played on
pro-level TAD Compact Reference monitors and associated electronics; no
word on if whiskey is part of the demo.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/pioneers-tad-shows-off-a-new-blu-ray-audio-format-at-ces/

[Raskolnikov]

Tastetur med Wireless HDMI og en lille skærm. Det ultimative HTPC tilbehør?

http://i.gizmodo.com/5124985/eee-keyboard-an-entire-touchscreen-home-theater-pc

We spotted some Asus keyboards last week, but none were nearly as potentially awesome as the official Eee Keyboard. Featuring wireless HDMI, it's a "fully functional PC" with full QWERTY and a mini secondary touchscreen.

Asus was vague as to if/when we'll actually see the Eee Keyboard come to market (though we're pretty sure it's a semi-real product), but it's a fantastic concept for a home theater PC if we've ever seen one. Through wireless HDMI you could

potentially make any television into your monitor (complete with audio playback) without having some huge PC taking up space.

[Raskolnikov]

Der er også lige det her ret sindsyge laptop koncept fra Asus:   http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/video-asus-teases-with-folding-origami-laptop-concept/

[Raskolnikov]

LG LCD LED med Wireless HD. Der står "unkompresed" HD så bliver spændende at se hvor godt det er kontra alm. kabel HDMI.
          

LG opened up today's CES press bonanza by dropping the new LHX series (a new name for the LH95), a 0.97-inch 240Hz LCD with signals streaming from a wireless "media box."

                         

The size is 55 inches, and still no no word yet on price.

Also new is the LH90 series, which brings all of the LHX's 240Hz LED goodness, but without the ultra-slim chassis and wireless external box. They come in 55, 47 and 42-inchers.LHX Slim Wireless LED Backlight HDTV (Class Size: 55-inch*) A CES2009 Innovations honoree, LG’s LHX offers superior picture quality with an elegant ultra-slim design – less than one-inch thick at its thinnest point. Unlike other slim LED HDTVs that use “edge” lighting, LG’s LHX uses a full array of LED backlights which employ local dimming techniques for precise picture control, resulting in deeper blacks, wide color gamut and smooth motion, achieving 240Hz performance for more natural picture clarity. Key features include:

• Full HD 1080p via Uncompressed Wireless Transmission from media box

• TruMotion 240 Hz

• LED backlighting with Local Dimming

• 2,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio

• 24p Real Cinema (5:5 Pulldown)

• Intelligent Sensor

• ISFccc Ready

• Four (4) HDMI V. 1.3 with Deep Color

• USB 2.0 for access to digital music and photos (MP3, JPEG)

• LG SimpLink™ (HDMI-CEC)

• Smart Energy Saving Plus

• LG Core Technologies

LH90 LED Backlight HDTV (Class Sizes: 55-, 47-, and 42-inch*): The LH90 series boasts all the same functionalities of the LHX model in a self-contained, clean modern silhouette (no separate set top box).

http://i.gizmodo.com/5125345/lg-led-lcds-are-official-lhx-is-thinnest-lcd-with-led-backlight-240hz-wireless-hdmi

[Raskolnikov]

Pannasonic præsenterer verdens tyndeste plasma skærm.

            
     

Fra Gizmodo.


     
          
                                                  
                         
     

  
     
     
     
          

By Panasonic, this plasma just inches
millimeters out Pioneer's 9mm previous best. It's 1/3 of an inch thick
on the dot and it uses 50% less power than veteran Panasonic plasma
tech. Bonus shot:

                         

                                  
     
  

     
     
     
          

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[Raskolnikov]

Det eneste jeg ellers kan finde på nye Panasonic Plasmas er her: http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/us/product/g_plasma.html

Ser ikke ud som om der sker det vilde.  

[Raskolnikov]

OLED tv fra LG.

While Sony's OLED TV
is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, LG is swaggering
dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED
TV prototype. On display here at CES and planned for a production run sometime this summer,
the image is absolutely stunning -- every bit as impressive as the
Sony's XEL-1. Nothing else compares to the incredible contrast achieved
by these OLED displays. Have a look in the gallery -- we've got the
prototype pictured with and without its chubby TV bezel. It's
credit-card thin (0.8-mm) and only on Engadget.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/eyes-on-with-lgs-near-production-15-inch-oled-tv-come-on-summe/

Panasonic vil have 3D tv klar i 2010.

          

After the press conference blitz of today, I snuck off to Panasonic's booth (still under construction) to check out their 3DHD technology—a 3D plasma screen that runs in true 1080p.

Before you read any further, I'll answer that nagging question. Yes, you need to wear special glasses.

The demo system starts with a retrofitted 103-inch Panasonic plasma.
Coupled with active shutter glasses, a Blu-ray player feeds a 120fps 1080P signal to the television. 60fps are for the right eye while the other 60fps are for the left. IR syncs the glasses to the Blu-ray player to the TV, and presto, 3D magic is made.

So how's it look? Good. It is sharp, I'll give Panasonic that. 60fps per eye means that the 3D image isn't created through some cheap interlacing effect that would kill the resolution. Watching highlights of the Beijing

Olympics opening ceremonies (captured on dual lens 3D cameras), I was
really impressed by the endless lines of drummers popping off the screen without the hokey feel of most 3D. A basketball game was equally impressive. It was like watching a perfectly photo-realistic NBA video game, minus the canned animations.

But I never really felt connected to the image. I blame the shutterglasses. There's something imperceptibly distancing about that technology to me—which was only exacerbated by a greasy smear on one of the lenses. It was work to watch these short clips.Panasonic hopes to commercialize the technology by 2010, something I believe with their huge push with Hollywood types like James Cameron endorsing the technology. And while I can see the appeal of 3D imaging for everyday video content, I really don't think that it will be popularized with shutter glasses, regardless of Blu-ray and fancy plasmas.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5125971/panasonic-3dhd-decent-3d-video-thats-as-impractical-as-any-3d-ever

[Raskolnikov]

Man kan også følge med her: http://www.hififorum.nu/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=71107&whichpage=3

[übernerd]

Video af Panasonics 3D setup: http://www.cnet.com/1801-19505-50004905.html
Og nvidia er også med på 3D bølgen.
http://www.cnet.com/1801-19505-50004878.html?tag=contentBody;gaming

[Diamagnetic]

Det eneste jeg ellers kan finde på nye Panasonic Plasmas er her: http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/us/product/g_plasma.html

Ser ikke ud som om der sker det vilde.

De er også i diverse test blevet beskyldt for at være gået i stå.

[Raskolnikov]

Lidt nyt Hi Fi fra CES. Herunder PS Audio.

Fra Stereophile


PS Audio is also showing a prototype of the new PerfectWave DAC/pre,also slated for around $2999, and sporting a touch screen. There arefour HDMI imputs on the back (only compatible with their I²S flavor of HDMI) and a touchscreen on the front for controlling volume and such.
 
On the back is a slot for the $500 "Bridge" which would enable the DAC/pre to interface with a NAS drive and iPhone/Touch controller and become a full-fledged music server. McGowan promises several future products to fillup the HDMI ports on the back.

Last year PS Audio teased us with a prototype disc player called the memory link which never quite made it to production. Instead, the company evolved the idea further and created a new line of products branded PerfectWave. First up is the PerfectWave Transport Memory Player, likely to run $2,999 when it hits the streets in March. The TMP is essentially an optical disc player that can play any resolution WAV file (including Reference Recordings' new high definition HRX format DVDs) and FLAC files. MP3 decoding may be added to the mix in the future, but SACD won't be possible, since the transport is built around an IDE DVD ROM drive. A couple things set this product apart. First is the use of an HDMI connection on the back to transmit digital audio data. Though it is indeed an HDMI connector, and uses standard HDMI cables, the connection is not compatible with your flat panel HDTV or Blu-ray player (PS Audio's Paul McGowan says it won't hurt anything if plugged into a video component by mistake), but instead uses I2S and so far only works with upcoming PS Audio audio components. The HDMI connection contains the bit clock, word clock, master clock, and data. McGowan says this use of HDMI allows the transport to clock the entire digital path and eliminate the sample rate converter and jitter. "For the first time, you can render a perfect data stream," says McGowan. When you put a disc in, it takes 10 seconds to dump the optical data into a buffer. As McGown puts it, "you never listen to the disc, you're always listening to the buffered data through a fixed low jitter clock." To emphasize this point, during a brief demo, McGowan pulled the disc out of the transport but the music continued to stream from the buffer. The other feature which stands out is the album cover popping up on the front display after the CD is inserted. McGowan says that the company is working on a way to remotely store album meta data for their customers which is then accessed via a standard CAT5 internet connection on the back of the Transport.

Lidt interessant at de mener at de kan få nul jitter via HDMI når netop denne forbindelse er kendt for at have jitter. Hmm.

[Raskolnikov]

Lidt mere om de nye Panasonic skærme.

Despite their entry-level status, the X1 plasmas look a lot like their more-expensive cousins.

(Credit: Panasonic)

Of the 42 individual models of plasma and LCD TVs that Panasonic announced at the 2009 CES, the X1 series lives on the bottom rung of the totem pole. That didn't stop the company from endowing the plasmas with so-called Infinite Black technology, however.

The Panasonic rep we talked to explained that Infinite Black caused the
TVs, when displaying a completely black screen, to basically fade down to nothing, as if the TV was turned off. The new entry-level panels also improve upon the contrast-ratio spec for the entry-level PX80U series from last year, doubling it from 15,000:1 to 30,000:1. The result should be excellent black-level performance for a relatively low-buck display.

Of course, as with higher-priced Panasonic plasmas, the company didn't divulge exact pricing of the X1 models. There will be two screen sizes in the series, the 42-inch TC-P42X1 and the 50-inch TC-P50X1. Both will be available in February.

Notably, the X1 series lacks the improved efficiency of the company's higher-end panels, which are dubbed NEO PDP and supposedly consume half as much power as last year's models to produce the same light output. Since the X1's are merely 720p resolution (technically 1,024x768 for the 42 and 1,366x768 for the 50), however, they'll probably still be more-efficient than a non-NEO 1080p model.

[Raskolnikov]

Den nye Palm Pre ligner godt nok en iphone killer! Alm. høretelfonstik, stereo blutooth, mulititasking, cut/paste, gps, 3M kamera med xeon blitz the list goes on!  
http://i.gizmodo.com/5126702/palm-pre-preview-simply-amazing?skyline=true&s=i

Video af den:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/2001-1_53-50004926.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.3

[Raskolnikov]

Fleksibel OLED skærm. http://ces.cnet.com/?tag=smallCarouselArea.0