Philips Shows World’s First Cinema Proportion TV

IFA holds its Press Conference each year well in advance of its late-August Berlin show. This year the trade show organizer came to Malta where industry sponsors demonstrated products to the more than 300 top technology journalists (including RAVE EUROPE).

Most interesting were the high end residential TV ranges like Loewe and the new Philips 21:9 cinema proportion TV. Philips linked their presentation to the new James Bond. Grab some popcorn and see the demo here…

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While Aurea and Ambilight entice consumers with the play of light, now Philips hopes to hook users by offering to personalize their TV according to taste, mood or choice of furniture .The idea behind Flavors is simple: a selection of 12 different frames (using a magnetic attach-system) can give this Philips model a totally different look. You can own several frames and change at whim—or buy one in Red Chili to go with that red love seat in your living room.

Flavors family will initially include a 22", 32" and 42" set (features of the top-of-the line include 1080p panel, 30,000:1 contrast ratio, 5-millisecond response time, 500 cd/m2 brightness and a pair of HDMI ports). In the test, you get two frames with the TV.

In the future, Philips hints they may even find a way we can each create our own personally-designed frame. Italy is their test market, while for the rest of Europe will wait until April 2009.

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Panasonic Professional Displays Europe announces two 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixel) full HD plasma displays for high-end home cinema enthusiasts and AV professionals.

Panasonic aims to distribute these models through a selected network of high level Custom Home Cinema specialists.

For these latest models, Panasonic uses the new-gen plasma display panels equipped with a new structure where a 'Dynamic Black Layer' is positioned at the front end of the panel. This reduces the amount of pre-discharge to one-sixth of conventional models and boosts the contrast ratio to the world's highest at 60,000:1. Net effect: exceptionally deeper, richer blacks, says Panasonic.

By incorporating the newly-developed phosphor material process technology and optical filter, the advanced plasma displays have extended the HDTV-standard colour gamut and cover almost the entire colour range currently used in digital cinema industries.

Panasonic's maximum 18-bit digital signal processing and 'Digital Colour Reality' technologies achieve a detailed gradation from light to dark and faithfully express subtle colour differences. The moving picture resolution of over 900 lines reproduces clear, crisp, and smooth moving images.

The new models are equipped with a variety of customisable functions for high-end home cinema connoisseurs. The 16 adjustment menus cover items such as six gamma curve options and white balance adjustment. The advanced memory function makes it possible to name and save the used or calibrator adjusted data. Comes with a black aluminium hairline finish on the front bezel.

The TH-65VX100 will be available in Jan. 2009 and TH-50VX100 in February 2009, which should give you just enough to contact them about selling these.

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JVC Professional Europe announces a 17-inch LCD TFT, the LM-H171 monitor designed specifically for "round the clock" surveillance and monitoring markets.

You can adjust the non-glare viewing panel with the touch of a button. For the preferred viewing of a security operator, the four selectable picture display modes are standard, dark, enhanced, vivid and dynamic. The screen also has a very fast response time of 5ms and comes with a contrast ratio of 1000:1.

The monitor accepts video, VGA, DVI input signals, and with the selectable scan size mode option the LM-H171 optimizes the camera signal input for monitor viewing.

An energy saving feature is included: when no signal is detected, a power save mode reduces the brightness of the LCD backlight.

Available now, the LM-H171 is made from fire retardant material including a metal rear cabinet and connector protection structure, with built-in power supply and optional rack mount adaptor for monitor wall viewing.

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digiFLEX, the first fully flexible LED video display, won an Innovation Award at this year’s PLASA. digiFLEX combines high-res full colour video capability with a flexible architecture.

Modular in design, digiFLEX uses LEDs mounted onto a flexible PCB. It has a 10mm pixel pitch and 2000 Nits of brightness for video resolution in a compact, easy to use form. digiFLEX tiles measure 320mm (w) x 160mm (h) and flex smoothly horizontally and vertically and weigh less than 6kg per square metre – less than 10% that of a traditional LED display.

digiFLEX tiles can be used as a skin for pre-formed curved metal surfaces, its magnetic mounted making it quick and easy to install.

The system will accept all inputs including HD. The feed from the control system is DVI but it can accept anything a digiPRO, digiPRO HD or digiPILOT would accept.

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NEC Electronics (Europe) introduces a new 9.0-inch (23 cm diagonal) amorphous- silicon TFT LCD module with WVGA wide-format resolution to meet the rising demands of various industrial applications.

An ultra-wide viewing angle of 176 degrees (both horizontally and vertically), high luminance of 350 candelas per square meter (cd/m2) and high contrast ratio of 800:1 are realized through NEC LCD Technologies' own UA-SFT technology, which boasts high transmissivity and wide viewing-angle properties.

A wide operating temperature range (–20 to +70°C) allows operation in extreme conditions.

In addition, the company also offers a new 10.4” color TFT LCD module, with SVGA resolution with high visibility even in high ambient light (by proprietary super- transmissive, natural-light TFT (ST-NLT) technology).