I managed to get my camera in to the top secret SED screen demonstration area. Where all competing engineers are detected by agents and are not allowed in, where there are agents looking for anyone filming the screen during the show. The screen does look nice but even to my eye it kind of seems to flicker a little bit (maybe not more than a normal CRT screen). I wonder if they can fix up the refresh rate little bit before they begin mass production. So this is a competing large screen Full HD screen technology. Competes with Plasma, LCD, DLP and JVC’s HD-ILA. In this video I also get to interview one of the marketing responsible from Toshiba in their top secret dark demonstration room. According the representative, it will ship in 55″ full HD version in Q4 2007.

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The latest Pioneer DJ device also enables the DJ to remix and queue music videos. It take DVDs and the DJ will now be able to scratch video and parties will now be even cooler. This one does not support high definition videos though, that’s for the next version.

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Blueray disc player, Ambi light and Ambx are showcased and explained by a representative.

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Talking to the marketing representative about the launch of the new 1080p Full HD LCD line. And showing some of the new features from the new Sharp LCD panel factory, providing better contrast, resolution, refresh rate and more. Also showing their new 1080p DLP projector.

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Their newest model supports H264 in HD. But they aren’t yet certified for HDCP, thus no HDMI output ports. They are showing a new DVB-T module that enables you to record the shows directly onto the 3.5″ harddrive which is inside the device or which is external on one of the usb2-host ports.

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Some PMPs made in China. Available for 215 to 235 dollars each if you buy at least 500 pieces.

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Showing some compact integration of the ISS and the latest high definition Sigma Designs chip.

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Explaining how the DLP TVs work. Introducing the prices of the huge DLP TVs, they are half the price of a plasma at the same size. There is also shown the LED DLP tv concept, which provides more vivid colors and better backlighting.

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Ran Levy, is a journalist from Israel writing for AV Magasine. He explains what the Color gamut means, which Samsung claims provides the best of, and he tells us some top secret information that has for next weeks Cedia show in Denver USA. Supposedly all the manufacturers including Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Epson will all show their new cheaper 1080p projectors. For the home cinema in full HD ready format, for the HD content that is going to come from the introduction of Blueray and HDDVD.

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Actually uses the brand name Dixcom here at the IFA. But is mostly known by internet surfing PMP specialists as Digital Cube. They are the market leaders for PMPs in Korea. Showing in this video is the V43 which is a nice PMP with a touch-screen, the T43 which adds DMB tuner and the newest S43 which has a 800×480 resolution touch-screen and runs Windows CE.

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